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Overview for 'diversity-and-inclusion'
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SHIFT
Creator:
SHIFT Consortium
News
Created: 30 September 2024
Robert Davies
Maria Kagkelidou
Failures to address the needs of people with varied accessibility requirements and disabilities have long stood in the way of ensuring that everyone can enjoy cultural heritage in person and online. 13 European organisations have teamed up through the SHIFT project to take on this challenge - and make heritage more engaging in the process.
Stories that Move is an online educational toolbox that empowers young people to combat discrimination through online storytelling techniques. Developed by the Anne Frank House, it combines historical and contemporary narratives to foster empathy, engagement, and a deeper understanding of inclusion across Europe.
The DE-BIAS project is thrilled to announce the online publication of a new resource for the cultural heritage sector - a Community Engagement Methodology: Resources, Reflections, Recommendations. This guide aims to inspire community engagement practices within GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) across Europe.
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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.
