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The Museum as a collector of vernacular born-digital photographs: a case study of the family camera network collection at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Year: 2021

Type: other

Abstract: Active from April 2016 to March 2019, The Family Camera Network was a collaborative project that explored the relationship between family and photography. The project established a public archive at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The ArQuives. The collection is composed of photographs, albums, home videos and miscellaneous objects. Among the objects collected by the ROM are 126 born-digital photographs. This thesis focuses on the development of cataloguing methods for born-digital vernacular photographs using existing fields in the museum’s collection catalogue, TMS. Through the use of digital metadata, this thesis describes and analysis how information embedded in the born-digital archives can assist in the production of valuable collection records.

DOI: 10.32920/ryerson.14666412.v1

Author: Vitor Pavão

Institutions: Rochester Institute of Technology, Royal Ontario Museum, Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Toronto Metropolitan University

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Funder: A.G. Leventis Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W4253569713

Cites: 18

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10