Maya Dejong undertaking a photogrammetry process for slow digitisation.
The Project
This project aims to investigate how community history, heritage and cultural collections can be better preserved and made accessible through slow digitisation techniques. The project generates new interdisciplinary knowledge about Martindale Hall, South Australia, the historically significant objects it contains and digitisation.
Aims
- To research the complex layers of meanings associated with Martindale Hall, including its landscape, objects, archives and people to improve public access to these significant cultural heritage assets
- To trial a collaborative public history and heritage methodology—‘slow’ digitisation—to build rich and varied community meanings into the technical process of digitisation that can be adapted for other communities regionally, nationally and internationally
- To develop new knowledge about meaningful, connected and sustainable approaches to the digitisation of community-embedded built heritage and regional object and archival collections.
Slow Digitisation
The project includes a new method that embeds digitisation in historical and cultural knowledge and assists organisations to make sustainable decisions about when and how to digitise. Benefits include improved public access to significant cultural heritage assets, return on investment for local history organisations, and protection of cultural heritage places and objects by the communities that care for them.
The Team
Our team is interdisciplinary group of historians, archaeologists and digital humanities specialists.
- Lead CI Prof. Penny Edmonds, Flinders University
- Partners Vince Copley Junior and Ngadjuri Elders Heritage and Land Care Council Inc.
- CI Prof. Heather Burke, Flinders University
- CI A/Prof. Tully Barnett, Flinders University
- CI Prof. Claire Smith, Flinders University
- CI A/Prof. Jane Haggis, Flinders University
- CI Em/Prof. Margaret Allen, The University of Adelaide
- CI Dr Ania Kotarba, The University of Adelaide
- Dr Jarrad Kowlessar, Flinders University
- Denise Noack, Flinders University
- Fiona Lawry, Flinders University