Presentation at Shift Happens V in York July 8 2013
Collecting the digital: Helsinki November 2, 2015
1. Collecting the digital
From a photographic
perspective
Valtakunnalliset kuva-arkistopäivät
Helsinki, 2.-3.11.2015
Kajsa Hartig, Nya medier
Nordiska museet, Stockholm
2. 1. Digital and Museums
2. Nordiska museet
3. Collecting in a digital world
4. Collectin the Digital
– From a Photographic
Perspecive
30. 2015 Internal report:
Collecting the
Digital at Nordiska
museet
A lot of questions were raised
1) Survey to other museums (mapping)
2) Internal discussions
31. Conclusions – The survery
• More than 50 % (16 of 25) use social
media as means to communicate
online surveys and collecting efforts
• 7 of 25 do not collect using online
tools and channels
32. Conclusions – The survery
• Positive effects from collecting
online is greater outreach, fast
and spontaneous initiatives, and
digital material in databases can
easily be extracted for research
33. Conclusions – The survery
• Difficult to validate sources
• There is a digital divide, not
everyone can participate
• Images can be of low quality
• Requires social media skills
34. Conclusions – The report
• Online collecting requires re
thinking of what should be
collected, how it will be
preserved and and how it
will be disseminated
35. Conclusions – The report
Actual collecting or ”just”
engaging in dialogue?
#nm_advent #nm_lucia
51. To describe and map the
role of the photograph
collections, current
methods and workflows in
museums and archives
today,
52. To describe and map the role
of social media and social
digital photographs in society
– how it affects collecting
and disseminating of
digitally born photographs.
53. To describe and map and the
role of the collecting
heritage organisations (as
compared to other
organisations/companies
collecting and disseminating
photographs) and how users
perceive archives/museums.
54. Trough research and pilot
projects define evolving
methods for collecting and
disseminating
contemporary social digital
photographs, in museums
and archives.
The museum has always collected, physical objects and photographs as well as archival documents.
Another starting point for the project is Images for the Future, by the Stockholm County Museum and Malmö museer. The project aimed at mapping the change that photography has undergone in the process of becoming digital, and to find out how these changes affected the methods of collecting used by museums today. They came up with valuable conclusions, on which we will build this new project.
And the #snapshot exhibition and the publication is equally valuable for us in this project.