dha2014 BoF

Beyond digitisation: preparing non-digital resources for the digital world and curation of

digital resources in the GLAM sector

Which Flock are you?

A murder of GLAM practitioners

A mob of historians

A parliament of DH practitioners.

Are we moving from an archive and library perspective - making resources available, but

leaving the question of the contents open – to a museum and art perspective?

Managing Schrodinger's Cat: an archival approach

A library perspective

Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 1961)

Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik (The present situation in quantum mechanics), Naturwissenschaften

(translated by John D. Trimmer in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society), 1935.[peer reviewed journal]

Subject: History of Science; Philosophy

Notes: may contain a cat

Q530.112

A museum perspective

Schrödinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.

In the experiment, which Schrodinger put forward as a thought exercise, a cat is placed in a box with a decaying atomic particles. The question of whether the cat is alive or dead is problematic until the box is opened.

Box – 2014/001. Cat on loan from RSPCA

The galleru

Splitreason – Schrodinger's cat t-shirt. Transfer, 2014.

(Gallery collection 2014/13)

Are we digitising the right things, and are we presenting them in the right way?

Case study - #GovHack

We barely create time and momentum for people to interrupt their busy lives to consider visiting a

museum with their precious spare time – how can we expect it to be an different with our online

content?

Seb Chan http://www.freshandnew.org/2014/03/museum-

content-attention-time/

Some further reading

I have a Zotero library - DHA2013 (yes, a typo)

https://www.zotero.org/lises/items/collectionKey/XFD9PJER