Naslov
Etnography in the Archives: Teacher's Records in a Digital Context

Autori
Birt Katić, Danijela ; Krivić Lekić, Martina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Međunarodni znanstveno-stručni skup 8. dani ICARUS-a u Hrvatska - Enhancing Heritage Experience – Exploring Cultural Routes

Mjesto i datum
Šibenik, Hrvatska, 22.03.2023. - 25.03.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Teachers, ethnographic material, ethnographic manuscript, omeka

Sažetak
“Policies of Recording Ethnographic Materials From 1897 to 1954. Teachers as Creators of Ethnographic Knowledge” (project acronym: UČeka) is an institutional project supported by the University of Zadar. The project proposal primarily focuses on archival research from the perspective of ethnology and cultural anthropology. By reviewing, researching, and critically analysing the archival material dealing with the ethnographic topics (stored in the State Archives in Bjelovar, Gospić, and Zadar, as well as in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb, and the Croatian School Museum) together with ethnographic materials stored in the Archives of the Department of Ethnology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences, the project aims to detect key factors that infuenced the aspects of teachers’ collecting and recording of ethnographic material. The main aim of the project is to detect the activities and perspectives of teachers as collectors and recorders of ethnographic material in the period from 1897 to 1954. In our analysis, we introduce the category of teachers as folk ethnographers during the period of Banovina Croatia. The main challenge we had to deal with was to fnd data from the beginning of the 20th century that describe rural everyday life, exclusively written by the teachers. Along with revaluing the work of teachers as collectors and recorders of ethnographic material, our goal is to popularize and contribute to the understanding of the role ethnologists have in the contemporary context, as well as disseminate and popularize the topics that ethnologists research. One of the results of the UČeka project is to prepare an exhibition that would point out the different values and possible applications of collected archival material in a concise and visual format. At the beginning of the project, we decided that it was necessary to devise a way of displaying and sharing the collected archival material. For this reason, a scan tent was acquired for the needs of the project, i.e. equipment that enabled the high-quality recording of archival material. At this point, all collaborators on the project were familiar with the rules of digitizing archival material, and we began the process of obtaining approval from all archives for the use of material, which would ensure all prerequisites for placing materials on a digital platform. Considering the diversity of the collected material and possibilities for the publication of digital collections and exhibits, the digital platform Omeka.net was chosen. Omeka, as an open-source tool, allows users to run Omeka Classic without worrying about installation or hosting as well as it allows the usage of various software plugins without much coding knowledge. In doing so, it achieves diversity and a greater level of user customization. The first stage of the project is the implementation of the collected material collected on Omeka.net, considering the provenance of the sources, organizing the material into funds, and describing it with a basic set of metadata. After that, a virtual exhibition will be set up in which the collected material will be interpreted and presented to the audience. The platform will be continuously updated with relevant material for the entire duration of the project up until the end of the project activities. In that way, the project will form a unique base of collected material within its framework. The link to the Omeka platform will be published on the websites of the project participants: the University of Zadar and the State Archives in Bjelovar. In addition, it will be offered to the institutions whose material it contains. The material collected in this way will be available to the academic community, professors, and students alike, as well as anyone interested in the topic and material.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA