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Who owns digital cultural heritage? #23

Open valeriavitale opened 2 years ago

valeriavitale commented 2 years ago

The debate around restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage acquired illegally and unethically by colonising countries is leaving out a critical reflection on digital reproductions of cultural heritage, as pointed out by Wallace and Pavis in their response to the 2018 Sarr-Savoy report. Who controls access to those digital objects? Who benefits from ditising and studying them? Who determines what should or should not be open access? How can AIs and other automated approaches comply with these kinds of ethical and legal issues?

valeriavitale commented 2 years ago

Possible discussion for after the Summer?

fedenanni commented 2 years ago

This is a really cool one! Do you have someone in mind we could invite?

valeriavitale commented 2 years ago

Yes, I'll try to invite Andrea Wallace, from Exeter. But she's super busy, so not sure she'll say yes ;-) She may suggest other people to get the conversation started. I also know a few colleagues in Classics who are very interested, and might like to join the discussion (but not lead it).