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* The archive is a technology of colonialism. | * The archive is a technology of colonialism. | ||
* Metadata and metadata structures organise knowledge. Both are situated in their circumstances of production. | * Metadata and metadata structures organise knowledge. Both are situated in their circumstances of production. | ||
** linked data can support chains of URIs between, say, [https://viaf.org/viaf/35548259/ VIAF IDs] and [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1044598617 OCLC permalinks] that readable by machines but incomprehensible to humans. Our production of data balances these two imperatives: to make data that [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:SPARQL/examples#Where_women_in_our_data_are_in_wikidata.2C_their_spouses.2C_fathers.2C_and_mothers_according_to_wikidata can be queried with and against external linked data sources] '''and''' to present data in ways that are readable to people using the wikibase via their web browser. | |||
* Digital photographs of artefacts are digital representations of those artefacts: they do not replace the artefacts they depict, rather they are things in their own right. | * Digital photographs of artefacts are digital representations of those artefacts: they do not replace the artefacts they depict, rather they are things in their own right. | ||
* Building a website is an intellectual act. | * Building a website is an intellectual act. | ||
* Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | * Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | ||
* The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour. | ** This website is backed up as a part of the Wikibase Cloud [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299505 disaster recovery regime]. Dumps of project data are regularly made, and will in due course be deposited as a dataset. | ||
* The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour... | |||
** See [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Meta Meta] for our attempts to show our work. If you can't find something, ask us for it. | |||
* ...and yet datasets like ours will always outlive the rationale for their creation. | |||
* Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | * Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | ||
** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements Wikibase Cloud] infrastructure. Wikibase Cloud uses as a hosting platform. Google Cloud claims to be the [https://cloud.google.com/sustainability 'cleanest cloud in industry']. We note that Google Cloud basis these claims on a combination of renewable "off-taking" and off-setting, the greenness of which is discussed in a [https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/12/digital-tech-vital-net-zero-royal-society-report/ recent report by the Royal Society (2020)]. We continue to monitor the environmental claims of Google Cloud. | |||
==== Bibliography ==== | ==== Bibliography ==== | ||
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* Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, [https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism 2021]. | * Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, [https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism 2021]. | ||
* Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, [https://www.worldcat.org/title/algorithms-of-oppression-how-search-engines-reinforce-racism/oclc/987591529/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br 2018]. | * Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, [https://www.worldcat.org/title/algorithms-of-oppression-how-search-engines-reinforce-racism/oclc/987591529/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br 2018]. | ||
* Onuoha, Mimi. The Point of Collection. [https://points.datasociety.net/the-point-of-collection-8ee44ad7c2fa 2016]. | |||
* Ortolja-Baird, Alexandra and Julianne Nyhan. 'Encoding the Haunting of an Object Catalogue: On the Potential of Digital Technologies to Perpetuate or Subvert the Silence and Bias of the Early-Modern Archive'. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities ([https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab065 2021]). | |||
* Parikka, Jussi. 'A Care Worthy of Its Time'. In Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (eds), Debates in Digital Humanities 2019. University of Minnesota Press ([https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/4805e692-0823-4073-b431-5a684250a82d/section/38b93cc9-3b58-4bcf-a444-04bcdaf322ee 2019]) | * Parikka, Jussi. 'A Care Worthy of Its Time'. In Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (eds), Debates in Digital Humanities 2019. University of Minnesota Press ([https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/4805e692-0823-4073-b431-5a684250a82d/section/38b93cc9-3b58-4bcf-a444-04bcdaf322ee 2019]) | ||
* Pendergrass, Keith, Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. ‘Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation’. The American Archivist ([https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-82.1.165 2019]). | * Pendergrass, Keith, Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. ‘Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation’. The American Archivist ([https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-82.1.165 2019]). | ||
