{"id":473,"date":"2016-01-26T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:51:52","slug":"week-4-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/01\/26\/week-4-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks readings really reminded me of mismatched ontologies and the\u00a0Duarte and Bellarde-Lewis reading, \u201cImagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies\u201d. The reading discusses\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Native American history and artifacts which have been historically\u00a0miscategorized when confined\u00a0to the standards set\u00a0according to western ontology; they have a different belief\u00a0system and when we impose a single system on these objects it is impossible to convey the complexities of the object or\u00a0accurately record histories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>When reading &#8220;Cataloging Cultural Objects A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images&#8221; I was about dismayed by its inability to deal with multicultural objects. The standards set in place to make archival processes easier to understand and knowledge more transferable to data, strips the object of its autonomy and multidimensionality. As someone who works with museum systems, I see the importance of guidelines in managing collections,\u00a0\u00a0however, I also see how it fail objects whose lifetimes existed far outside of purely aesthetic utility.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The extensive guidelines for categorization\u00a0that have been set out\u00a0in the past and are derived from &#8220;Anglo&#8221; standards fail to represent the nature of all objects. It\u00a0it is impossible to set a universal method for archiving and discussing objects because in many cases the &#8220;controlled vocabulary&#8221; does not\u00a0match the ontology of many\u00a0people who are trying to use those categories. Wallack, Seddon, and Srinivasan&#8217;s \u201cReconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems\u201d discusses how\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">these instances of mismatched ontologies result in information loss and<\/span>\u00a0tangible consequences\u00a0that\u00a0impact communities in specific ways especially when the power dynamics involved in\u00a0archiving have been weaponized against minorities with non-western ontologies in the past. While I recognize the importance of archival guidelines, I am critical of who has historically been in charge of managing databases and now has the power to set the confines through which they are\u00a0defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks readings really reminded me of mismatched ontologies and the\u00a0Duarte and Bellarde-Lewis reading, \u201cImagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies\u201d. The reading discusses\u00a0Native American history and artifacts which have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/01\/26\/week-4-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 4 Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","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\/473","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}