The open cultural data movement has many positive and negative aspects. With available open cultural data, there is a plethora of educational benefits and research opportunities. However, open cultural data also presents a number of questions and concerns.<\/p>\n
For instance, what happens when collections that include items that were never meant to be shown publicly, are culturally significant to a marginalized community or have been stolen from a community, make their collections and data freely available on the web?<\/p>\n
Additionally, Open cultural data made available on the web can exacerbate negative effects that happen within a musuem setting.\u00a0Narratives generated by museums rather than the culture from which the object\/image came from can reach wider audiences on the internet.Despite licenses and copyrights, images often circulate on the web without any context and can be used for a variety of purposes, thus images can also be appropriated, decontextualized, and redefined by a wider audience on the web.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, many open cultural platforms on the web, including\u00a0wikiart<\/a>,\u00a0showcase objects and images, as well as define art, through western art historical ways of categorizing and defining art, which is problematic for many reasons and leaves many art forms and movements out of the conversation.<\/p>\n Ultimately there are many positive and negative potentials for Open Cultural Data. \u00a0Images and data can range from being completely\u00a0appropriated, decontextualized, and redefined, or highly contextualized and democratized.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The open cultural data movement has many positive and negative aspects. With available open cultural data, there is a plethora of educational benefits and research opportunities. However, open cultural data … Continue reading “Concerns About Open Cultural Data”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}