The Digital Biography of Things

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1224
dc.contributor.author	Rossi Emanuela
dc.title	The Digital Biography of Things. A Canadian Case Study in Digital Repatriation
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	I propose taking a closer look at the anthropological, classificatory and exhibitionary principles on which a Canadian digital repatriation project (GRASAC) was built. The process of dematerialisation and subsequent reinsertion into a new ‘concretion’ (the digital database) has lent the objects a new status within a certain organisational structure. This kind of products, once created, take on a life and history of their own, separate from that of the objects themselves. Digital files of physical objects are more than just simple reproductions or copies, and can be read as a further phase of the ‘objects’ biography’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-12-31
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-12-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-225-3/the-digital-biography-of-things/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-41
dc.identifier.issn	2611-0040
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9247
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-225-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-179-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Communities
dc.subject	Communities
dc.subject	Digital repatriation
dc.subject	Digital repatriation
dc.subject	Ownership
dc.subject	Ownership

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The Digital Biography of Things

A Canadian Case Study in Digital Repatriation

Emanuela Rossi Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia

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abstract

I propose taking a closer look at the anthropological, classificatory and exhibitionary principles on which a Canadian digital repatriation project (GRASAC) was built. The process of dematerialisation and subsequent reinsertion into a new ‘concretion’ (the digital database) has lent the objects a new status within a certain organisational structure. This kind of products, once created, take on a life and history of their own, separate from that of the objects themselves. Digital files of physical objects are more than just simple reproductions or copies, and can be read as a further phase of the ‘objects’ biography’.

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Dec. 31, 2017

Accepted

March 21, 2017

Submitted

Dec. 21, 2016

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978-88-6969-225-3

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-179-9

Keywords: Digital repatriation • Ownership • Communities

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-41

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