Social justice and data contextualisation

Represent relations that traditional databases ignore. Allow others to participate and contribute in building a fuller and diverse community picture

Databases have preserved old information in static formats. This type of preservation fails to represent new knowledge and new categories of knowledge, and therefore the diversity of knowledge across worldwide communities.
Social justice and data contextualisation

Represent relations that traditional databases ignore. Allow others to participate and contribute in building a fuller and diverse community picture

Databases have preserved old information in static formats. This type of preservation fails to represent new knowledge and new categories of knowledge, failing different world communities.
Social justice and data contextualisation

Represent relations that traditional databases ignore. Allow others to participate and contribute in building a fuller and diverse community picture

Databases have preserved old information in static formats. This type of preservation fails to represent new knowledge and new categories of knowledge, failing different world communities.

ResearchSpace provides multi-layered context to create a ‘strong objectivity’ in data by representing different knowledge from different vantage points.

Custodians of historical sources like books, objects, photographs, recordings and film, digitize their collections using narrow and essential categorizations that have no room for representing diversity of knowledge. As a result, in an age in which data is routinely published to the Web from these ‘preserved’ but increasingly anachronistic data sources, digital information is stripped of the wider context that different communities continually research but which is systematically marginalized. Data should contain social, economic and political relations, which is routinely filtered out of data information frameworks.

ResearchSpace provides the multi-layered context to create a ‘strong objectivity’ in data by confronting different knowledge from different vantage points.

Custodians of historical sources like books, objects, photographs, recordings and film, digitize their collections using narrow and essential categorizations that have no room for representing diversity of knowledge and peddle a false objectivity. As a result, in an age in which data is routinely published to the Web from these ‘preserved’ but increasingly anachronistic data sources, digital information is stripped of the wider knowledge that cultural heritage professionals continually research but is marginalized in computer information systems but which gives these sources their place and relevance in history.

Their knowledge is not just physically, but provides the social history that talks to why they were produced, and how they were used, to help inform a social history. However, even then these investigations are conducted in a bubble in the absence of others communities whose knowledge must be represented, but which is not.

ResearchSpace provides the multi-layered context to create a ‘strong objectivity’ in data by confronting different knowledge from different vantage points.

Custodians of historical sources like books, objects, photographs, recordings and film, digitize their collections using narrow and essential categorizations that have no room for representing diversity of knowledge and peddle a false objectivity. As a result, in an age in which data is routinely published to the Web from these ‘preserved’ but increasingly anachronistic data sources, digital information is stripped of the wider knowledge that cultural heritage professionals continually research but is marginalized in computer information systems but which gives these sources their place and relevance in history.

Their knowledge is not just physically, but provides the social history that talks to why they were produced, and how they were used, to help inform a social history. However, even then these investigations are conducted in a bubble in the absence of others communities whose knowledge must be represented, but which is not.