The Valuing Our Scans team was happy to present findings and receive feedback from Native American librarians and archivists at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. We presented “Understanding the Impact of Digitized Ethnographic Collections” at a session on Saturday, September 12. At the session, Ricky Punzalan (University of…
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Valuing Our Scans
The UMD and Smithsonian seed grant program aims to solidify and support research collaboration between the two institutions. My spring application to the program was successful, and starting this fall, I will be carrying out collaborative research with Brian Butler, Associate Professor and director of the MIM program at the Maryland iSchool, and Robert Leopold,…
Social Justice and Digital Repatriation
I will be speaking at the UMSI Social Justice Series this Friday. My talk, titled “Options for Digital Repatriation: The Case of the Worcester Ethnographic Photographs of Indigenous Philippines,” will explore the possibilities and ethics of digitally repatriating cultural heritage materials. Drawing on my work with early-twentieth-century ethnographic photographs, the talk will explore “virtual reunification”…
The Culion Archives
One of my major projects has been the Culion Museum and Archives, a community institution on Culion Island in the Palawan region of the southwest Philippines. In 2005 and 2006, I worked as a consultant to organize and preserve records of the leprosarium founded on Culion by the U.S. and later continued by the Philippine…