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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 | ** 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.wiki.opencura.com/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. | ||
