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The possible readings are grouped under four broad headings. They represent merely a starting point, not a canon. This list is non-exhaustive, non-canonical, and is heavily tilted towards museums. Let’s fix that balance.

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Foundations: Cultural Heritage & Information

in which we lay the groundwork for our understanding of CHI, its larger contexts, and what the major research questions are.

1.1 Cultural Heritage and its Institutions

• Abt, Jeffrey. 2008. ‘The Origins of the Public Museum’ in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library.

• Bennett, Tony. 1990. “The Political Rationality of the Museum,” Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture 2, no. 1 (1990), http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/3.1/Bennett.html.

• Daniel Buren, 1973. “Function of the Museum,” Artforum XII, September 1973, 68. https://tinyurl.com/ydbl2rwn http://faculty.winthrop.edu/stockk/contemporary%20art/Buren%20museum.pdf

• Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 1990. “The Space of the Museum,” Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture 3, no. 1 (1990), http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/3.1/Hooper.html

• Hudson, David J. 2016. “On Dark Continents and Digital Divides: Information Inequality and the Reproduction of Racial Otherness in Library and Information Studies” https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9862

1.2 Legal, Ethical Frameworks for Cultural Heritage

• Besterman, Tristram. 2008. ‘Museum Ethics’ in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library

• Gerstenblith, Patty. 2008. ‘Museum Practice: Legal Issues’ in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library

• Kreps, Christina. 2008. ‘Non-western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective’in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library.

1.3 Collectors and Collecting

• Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

• MacDonald, Sharon. 2008. “Collecting Practices” in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library

• Sentance, Nathan mudyi. 2018. “Why Do We Collect,” Archival Decolonist blog, August 18, 2018, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2018/08/18/why-do-we-collect/

1.4 Informatics and Organizing Cultural Heritage

• Lincoln, Matthew D. “Some problems with GLAM data on GitHub.” Matthew Lincoln, PhD (blog), 06 Jan 2016, https://matthewlincoln.net/2016/01/06/some-problems-with-glam-data-on-github.html.

• Marty, Paul, and Boyd Rayward. 2005. Museum Informatics in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37(1):259-294 · January 2005. pdf available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220141970_Museum_Informatics

• Sigmond, Cathy. 2019. “Calm Technology in Museums” in Humanizing the Digital https://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/chapters/2/

Representations

in which we consider the ways cultural heritage is represented and the creative work of curation and interpretation

2.1 Ownership and Authority

• Beaulieu, Anne, and Sarah De Rijcke. “Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums.” In Museums in a Digital Culture, edited by Van Den Akker Chiel and Legêne Susan, 75-92. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1s475tm.8

• Lashaw, Christine and Evelyn Orantes. 2019. “Sharing Authority: Creating Content and Experiences” in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

• Pulh, Mathilde, and Rémi Mencarelli. “Web 2.0: Is the Museum–Visitor Relationship Being Redefined?” International Journal of Arts Management 18, no. 1 (2015): 43-51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24587086

2.2 Preservation & Curation

• Hennessy, Kate, Dave Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, Aynur Kadir, Reese Muntean, Clarence Pennier, Michael Blake. 2018. Collaborative digital curation and recursive publics: The making of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/collaborative-digital-curation-and-recursive-publics-the-making-of-sqewlets-a-stolo-coast-salish-community-in-the-fraser-river-valley/

• Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

• CHIN Digital Preservation Case Study – 8th Hussars Museum. Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digital-preservation/hussars-museum-study.html

• Digital Curation Decision Guide. NDSA. https://osf.io/q8c47/

2.3 Interpretation

• Anderson, Annie, and Ashley Rogers, Emily Potter, Elon Cook, Karleen Gardner, Mike Murawski, Swarupa Anila, and Alyssa Machida. 2019. “Interpretation: Liberating the Narrative” in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

• Canning, Erin. 2019. Affect in Information Systems: A Knowledge Organization System Approach to Documenting Visitor-Artwork Experiences. Museums and the Web https://mw19.mwconf.org/paper/affect-in-information-systems-a-knowledge-organization-system-approach-to-documenting-visitor-artwork-experiences/

2.4 Online Exhibits: Cooked Data

• Drucker, Johanna. 2011. Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display. DHQ. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

• Trofanko, Brenda. 2014.“Reconsidering the Educational Promise of Public History Exhibits” in K. Kee, ed. Pastplay. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65swr0.16

• Warren, Rob, David Evans, Minsi Chen, Mark Farrell, Daniel Mayles. 2015. Data-driven Enriched Exhibits Using Augmented Reality Museums in the Web https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/data-driven-augmented-reality-for-museum-exhibits-and-lost-heritage-sites

• Wong, Amelia. 2015. The Whole Story, and Then Some: ‘Digital Storytellin’ in Evolving Museum Practice Museums in the Web https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-whole-story-and-then-some-digital-storytelling-in-evolving-museum-practice

2.5 APIs and Catalogues: Raw Data?

• Hogarty, Sarah Bailey, Keir Winesmith, Matthew Hrudka, Beth Schechter. 2015. Art + Data: Building the SFMOMA Collection API Museums and the Web https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/art-data-building-the-sfmoma-collection-api/

• Morgan, Richard. 2009. What is Your Museum Good at, and How Do You Build an API for It? Museums and the Web https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2009/papers/morgan/morgan.html

• Moskvin, Illya, and nikhil trivedi. 2019. Building a Data Hub: Microservices, APIs, and System Integration at the Art Institute of Chicago Museums and the Web https://mw19.mwconf.org/paper/building-a-data-hub-microservices-apis-and-system-integration-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago/

2.6 Metadata & Paradata

• Gilliland, Anne J. 2016.‘Setting the Stage’ in Murtha Baca, ed. Introduction to Metadata 3rd edition https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/setting-the-stage/

• Woodley. Mary S. 2016. ‘Metadata Matters: Connecting People and Information’ in Murtha Baca, ed. Introduction to Metadata 3rd edition https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/metadata-matters/

• Practical Principles for Metadata Creation and Maintenance https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/practical-principles/

• London Charter http://www.londoncharter.org/principles/documentation.html

• Zhang, Jane, and Dayne Mauney. “When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological Study of Digital Archival Representation.” The American Archivist 76, no. 1 (2013): 174-95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489654

2.7 Linked Open Data

• Oomen, Johan and Lotte Belice Baltussen. 2012. Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way: why you should sign up Museums and the Web https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/sharing_cultural_heritage_the_linked_open_data

• Newbury, David. 2017. Art Tracks: Using Linked Open Data For Object Provenance In Museums. Museums and the Web. https://mw17.mwconf.org/paper/art-tracks-using-linked-open-data-for-object-provenance-in-museums/

• Tallon, Loic. 2019. Sparking Global Connections to Art through Open Data and Artificial Intelligence https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2019/met-microsoft-mit-art-open-data-artificial-intelligence

• Villaespesa, Elena. 2019. Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives. Museums and the Web https://mw19.mwconf.org/paper/museum-collections-on-wikipedia-opening-up-to-open-data-initiatives/

• https://pro.europeana.eu/page/issue-7-lodlam

Creative Engagement

in which we develop our own cultural heritage informatics infrastructure and explore the ways such infrastructure permits research and creativity

3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice

• Byrd-McDevitt, Lori. 2019. “Reimagining Social Influencers through an Invitation Culture” in Humanizing the Digital https://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/chapters/3/

• Hooper-Greenhill, Eileen. 2008. “Studying Visitors” in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library

• Rao, Seema. 2017. Interstitial Spaces: Social Media As A Tool For Community Engagement Museums and the Web https://mw17.mwconf.org/paper/interstitial-spaces-social-media-as-a-tool-for-community-engagement/

• Stewart, Brenton, and Jessie Walker. 2018. “Build It and They Will Come? Patron Engagement Via Twitter at Historically Black College and University Libraries” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.09.016

• Shaffer, Elizabeth. 2011 ‘Developing an Organisational Information Policy to Mitigate the Risks Posed by Social Media Technologies’. Archives and Manuscripts, 39.2 https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa/article/view/10163

3.2 Web Archives

• Coffey, Mark, Alan Watts, Duane Degler. 2018. Archives strengthening historical narratives: Sharing digital and linked data resources for broader reach and sustainability. Museums and the Web. https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/archives-strengthening-historical-narrative-sharing-digital-and-linked-data-resources-for-broader-reach-and-sustainability

• Ian Milligan, Nathalie Casemajor, Samantha Fritz, Jimmy Lin, Nick Ruest, Matthew S. Weber, and Nicholas Worby. 2019. “Building Community and Tools for Analyzing Web Archives through Datathons.”” Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 19: 265-268. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/Milligan_etal_JCDL2019.pdf

• Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium. 2017. https://www.docnow.io/meetings/stl-2017/

3.3 Computational Creativity

• Compton, Kate. ‘Generominos’ http://www.galaxykate.com/generominos/

• Weinard, Chad. 2019. Data as Medium. https://medium.com/@caw_/data-as-medium-361814dba6a9

• Whitelaw, Mitchell. 2014. GENERATIVE HERITAGE - NOTES ON SUCCESSION the teeming void https://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2014/12/generative-heritage-notes-on-succession.html

• Woolf, Max. 2019. Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News https://minimaxir.com/2019/09/ctrl-fake-news/

• Issue 44. Digital Creativity in Archaeology Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue44/

Money

in which we consider how to measure, why, and why it matters

4.1 Budgeting and Bookkeeping

• Skinner, Sarah J., Robert B. Ekelund, and John D. Jackson. “Art Museum Attendance, Public Funding, and the Business Cycle.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 68, no. 2 (2009): 491-516. www.jstor.org/stable/27739781.

• Toepler, Stefan. “Caveat Venditor? Museum Merchandising, Nonprofit Commercialization, and the Case of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 17, no. 2 (2006): 99-113. www.jstor.org/stable/27928011.

4.2 Marketing Heritage

• Masri, Layla, Emily Grossman. 2010. Pimp My Site Architecture: Reorganization and Usability Tools and Tactics to Reinvigorate Museum Web Sites on a Budget Museums and the Web https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2010/papers/masri/masri.html

• Naiditch, Mara, Rachel Gertz, Edgar Chamorrro. 2017. How Do You Museum?: Marketing User-Generated Content To Engage Audiences? Museums and the Web https://mw17.mwconf.org/paper/how-do-you-museum-marketing-user-generated-content-to-engage-audiences/

• Van Broekhoven, Laura N. K. “Calibrating Relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum.” In Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors, edited by Pellew Jill and Goldman Lawrence, 65-80. London: School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv512v68.12

• Vet, Marthe. 2006. Buzz and Viral Marketing as a PR Tool for Museums: A Dutch Case Study. Museums and the Web https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2006/papers/devet/devet.html

4.3 Measuring Engagement & Analytics

• Seneler, Cagla. 2017. The Effects Of Learning Styles And Cultural Background On Understanding The Information Architectures (IAs) Of Information Rich Websites Museums and the Web https://mw17.mwconf.org/paper/the-effects-of-learning-styles-and-cultural-background-on-understanding-the-information-architectures-ias-of-information-rich-websites/

• Kelly, Lynda. 2016. The (post) digital visitor: What has (almost) twenty years of museum audience research revealed? Museums and the Web https://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-post-digital-visitor-what-has-almost-20-years-of-museum-audience-research-revealed