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Overview for 'diversity-and-inclusion'
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Participants of the co-creation sessions on a tour through the NISV archive in Hilversum. In Copyright.
How can the cultural heritage sector collaborate with communities to ensure that archives and archival descriptions are inclusive and accurate? The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision shares learnings from workshops that they have undertaken as part of the DE-BIAS project.
The need to include indigenous communities in the digitisation, enrichment and curation of their cultural heritage is increasingly recognised in the cultural heritage sector. Why is this so crucial, and how do digitised collections bring value to indigenous and minoritised communities?
A recent study from the Cultural AI Lab demonstrates that contentious terms about people and cultures occur frequently in datasets commonly used in the cultural sector. Andrei Nestorov tells us about the study, and shares reflections from the recent ‘AI and heritage’ conference in the Netherlands on how the sector can approach the issue.
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Laatste vlucht uit Suriname op Schiphol; verwelkoming Hindoestanen op Schiphol
The DIGICHer - Digitisation of the cultural heritage of minority communities for equity and renewed engagement - project is kicking off in Finland this week. We explore how the project plans to promote equity, inclusion and diversity in the representation of digital cultural content.
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First De-BIAS Co-creation session at Sound & Vision, The Hague. In Copyright.
The DE-BIAS project is working closely with communities to understand how to better represent their histories in the metadata of cultural heritage collections. Find out more about how the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is collaborating with the Dutch Surinamese community.
