Metadata Beyond the Eurocentric: Recovering Digital Cultural Memory
<p>A vast digitization is underway, with expansive potential for cultural memory, exchange, and recovery. Libraries, archives, and museums are licensing their cultural heritage objects through Creative Commons and posting them en masse on their websites. This flood of cultural content literally opens up worlds of possibilities for open education and beyond. But it also risks reproducing mistakes or omissions in the materials’ descriptions. One particular bias that circulates unless checked is Eurocentricism, or the tendency to impose European frames of references and value as universal.</p>
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