Digital Collections and Research is a project funded by FAPESP in the call LinCar. It aims at developing methodologies and a theoretical, conceptual repertoire for museum collections and digital documents through the conceptualization and prototyping of accessible and economically sustainable interfaces. On this website, the findings of the research, team publications, and other project information that make the data from ongoing investigations public are recorded.
Investigative axes
- Cataloging thought from the notion of Social Documentation (entangled objects)
- Management thought from the notion of developing Generative AI systems
- Access thought from the elaboration of Digital Curation systems
Guidelines
For that, it starts from three natural-digital collections: FAUUSP (architecture, urbanism and design); MAC-USP (net art, NFTart, video art); FILE (net art, video games, interactive and immersive installations, computer graphics, etc.) and has the following guidelines:
- Alignment with the contemporary debate on archives, oriented towards multiplicity and diversity
- It presupposes the digitization of culture as a structuring element of contemporary society
- It proposes to think about instances of production, circulation, storage and access
- Part of an easy-to-implement, free and open registration and publication platform (Tainacan)
- It intends to be an innovative project, based on semantic networks and analysis with AI resources
- Production of a transdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework that underlies the methods to be developed
Challenges
- Harmonize dynamic organization of cultural content and editorial intervention in automation systems
- Thinking about cataloging documentation to be done
- Visualize connections between internal layers of files
Team
The team comprises researchers who have been working and facing problems in this area for over a decade, within the scope of research, production, and circulation of digital objects, in the arts, architecture, and design.