Digital Collections and Research: art, architecture, design and technology

• Grant number: 22/05946-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: January 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Industrial Design
• Principal Investigator: Giselle Beiguelman
• Grantee: Giselle Beiguelman
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Principal investigators: Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
• Associated researchers: Ana Gonçalves Magalhães ; Dalton Lopes Martins ; Eduardo Augusto Costa ; Paula Monseff Perissinotto ; Priscila Almeida Cunha Arantes ; Renata Perim Albuquerque Lopes ; Silvia Regina Ferreira de Laurentiz
• Associated research grant(s): 23/14243-4 - Art Perception and its Diversity - From History to Eye Tracking, AV.EXT; 23/13880-0 - ARTECH 2023 - Digital Creation Processes - 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/14817-6 - Networks and Roots: Information Design and Data Visualization for Digital Collections, BP.DR; 25/25993-0 - Indigenous Artifacts in Digital Collections: Information Design and Technodiversity., BP.TT; 25/07905-6 - Mapping and analysis of interfaces and cataloging models of non-institutional digital collections., BP.TT; + associated scholarships 24/13287-0 - Web developer with an emphasis on open source content management platforms, specializing in the documentation and dissemination of historical collections and archives., BP.TT; 23/16018-8 - Preservation Policies for Born-Digital Artworks in the MAC USP Collection, BP.PD; 23/16054-4 - Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Contributions to Art History and Digital Humanities, BP.TT - associated scholarships

Abstract

This research project aims to debate methodologies in dealing with museum and documentary collections, concerning their formulations in the digital realm, as well as the prototyping of functionalities to be performed in the collections. In this sense, it encompasses three fundamental axes, which are interrelated, namely: (1) databases and their correlations with archive structures, considering their implications for cataloging, conservation, preservation, and access; (2) management systems, observing the ways of handling digital documents within institutional missions and their commitment to the public purpose of the university; and, finally, (3) the born-digital objects, in the institutional universe, observing the different natures of documents, their forms of access, visualization and preservation of logics and languages. Through these three perspectives, to be developed from the investigations proposed by the researchers involved, we intend to conceptually model the structures of organization, representation, and dissemination of information, consolidating knowledge that can guide both new research and institutional actions in the public and state structures. (AU)