The Museo Integrado calls for museums to “take part in bringing awareness into the societies to which it serves”. However, this can become challenging due to the alienation generated by Western and Anglo-centric epistemologies, cosmovision and technological impositions. How are museums meant to represent knowledge when the systems used to describe such knowledge do not engage with the perspective of the communities they are intended to serve? How do we overcome the large digital divide within cultural institutions, their staff, and especially among communities, not only in the context of the Global South, but also evident within the UK. The Digital Humanities have provided a paradigm shift in how knowledge production can sustain (and disrupt) novel research methods in the historical and cultural sector. REFERENCES Pereda, J. and Bailey, R., 2022, August. Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures. In 26th General Conference ICOM Prague. PEARCE, T. D., FORD, J. D., LAIDLER, G. J., SMIT, B., DUERDEN, F., ALLARUT, M., ANDRACHUK, M., BARYLUK, S., DIALLA, A. & ELEE, P. 2009. Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research, 28, 10-27. PICKLES, J. 2012. A History of Spaces: cartographic reason, mapping and the geo-coded World, Routledge. Víctor Hugo Garduño-Monroy. (2016). Una propuesta de escala de intensidad sísmica obtenida del códice náhuatl Telleriano Remensis. Arqueologia iberoamericana, 31, 9–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318345 Walsh, K. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On decoloniality. DW Mignolo, & EC Walsh, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, p.304.

1. Javier Pereda
BUILDING REPRESENTATION IN
SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-TECHNICAL
INFRASTRUCTURES FOR
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Javier Pereda
@TrinkerMedia

2. Senior Researcher
Senior Lecturer in Design
Co-Investigator of Unlocking the
Colonial Archive (AHRC/NEH)
Academic Representative of
Decolonising the Curriculum for Art
and Design
Javier Pereda
He/Him, heterosexual, male, Mexican, immigrant,
La6nx, in my 40s, mohawk, but going bold, mixture
of rural and city upbringing… and rock climber.

3. Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Technical Factors
Organisational Structures (Hierarchy)
Institutional Knowledge
Data Structures/Standardisation
(Multi) Cultural Representation
Information Literacy
Digital Literacy and Poverty
Copyright
Software Development
Language
Social Factors
Ontologies/Conceptualisation
CIDOC-CRM Dublin Core
SKOS FOAF
Wikidata/DBPedia BL-Data Model
EDM HCWT
Knowledge Needs
Museums Libraries Galleries Archives Built
Heritage
Scientific
Research
Intangible
Heritage
*Socio-Technical Systems

4. Knowledge Access
Know what is held
[ Social ]
Human
Taxonomies, Folksonomies,
Controlled Keywords
Institutional/Field
Hyponymy, Classifications,
Hierarchies, Equivalents
Extended
Knowledge Associa6ons
Know how is described
[ Social ]
Know how the syntax
and data models
[ Socio-technical ]
Know how query language
[ Technical ]
*Socio-Technical Systems

5. *Museo Integrado calls for museums to
“take part in bringing awareness into the
socieDes to which it serves”.
Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Socio-Technical Factors
The vision… The challenge…
Western and Anglo-centric
epistemologies, cosmovision
and technologic impositions
How are museums meant to represent
knowledge when the systems used to describe
such knowledge do not engage with the
perspective of the communities they are
meant to serve?
How do we overcome the large digital divide
within cultural insDtuDons, their staff, and
especially among communiDes, not only in the
context of the Global South, but also evident
within the UK.
TERUGGI, M. E. 1973. The round table of Santiago
(Chile). Museum International, 25, 129-133.
Pereda, J. and Bailey, R., 2022, August. Achieving representation in
sustainable socio-technical infrastructures. In 26th General Conference
ICOM Prague.

6. £22m Strategic Priorities Funding over five
years (February 2020 – January 2025)
Towards a National Collection is supporting
research that breaks down the barriers that
exist between the UK’s outstanding cultural
heritage collections, with the aim of opening
them up to new research opportunities and
encouraging the public to explore them in
new ways.
8 Foundation Projects 5 Discovery Projects
Foundation Projects
COVID-19 Projects
Discovery Projects
Commissioned
Research
Steering Commi?ee
&
Scoping Group
UK Digital CollecFons
Research
Infrastructure
Commissioned Research
Future
Directions

7. Pereda, J. and Bailey, R., 2022, August. Achieving representation in
sustainable socio-technical infrastructures. In 26th General Conference
ICOM Prague.
Knowledge
Automation
Location
Knowledge
Co-Creation
Decolonisa6on

8. © ESRI - Reconstructing the Past: A GIS Settlement Pattern
Analysis for Northwest North America
Geospatial ontologies can be tied to
colonisation and impose hegemonic
ownership over indigenous systems (Pearce
et al., 2009, Pickles, 2012).
PEARCE, T. D., FORD, J. D., LAIDLER, G. J., SMIT, B., DUERDEN, F., ALLARUT, M., ANDRACHUK, M., BARYLUK, S., DIALLA, A. & ELEE, P. 2009. Community
collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research, 28, 10-27.
PICKLES, J. 2012. A History of Spaces: cartographic reason, mapping and the geo-coded World, Routledge.
© Walter Crane, Imperial Federation: Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886. Colour lithograph. Published by Maclure &
Co. as a supplement to The Graphic, 24 July 1886.

9. Pace
Mapa de Tezozoalco, in: Relación de Teozacoalco y Amoltepec
[Cervantes, Hernando de (signer), Ruiz Zuazo, Juan (signer), Cervantes, Hernando de (scribe), García Icazbalceta, Joaquín, 1825-1894 (collector).
(1580-01-09). Relación de Teozacoalco y Amoltepec. Retrieved February 07, 2022, from heps://collecgons.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:67573049-
3633-43b1-8c0e-82b8dc8c89db]
Codex Telleriano-Remensis
Paris, Bibliothèque na3onale de France, MS Mexicain 385 (Codex
Telleriano-Remensis), ca. 1563, fol. 42r. Courtesy of gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.

10. Codex Telleriano-Remensis
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Mexicain 385 (Codex
Telleriano-Remensis), ca. 1563, fol. 42r. Courtesy of gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.
Two cane
1507
Partial solar
eclipse
Earthquake
Ollin (movement)
Tlalli (land)
2000
warriors
Stones
Tuzac River
tlalli VII tlalli VI tlalli V
Víctor Hugo Garduño-Monroy. (2016). Una propuesta de escala de intensidad sísmica obtenida del códice
náhuatl Telleriano Remensis. Arqueologia iberoamericana, 31, 9–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318345
Current informaDon systems do
not have the capability of using
non-Western cosmovision and
knowledges

11. Decoloniality seeks to make visible, open up,
and advance radically dis6nct perspec6ves and
posi6onali6es that displace Western ra6onality
as the only framework and possibility of
existence, analysis and thought.
- Walsh, K and Mignolo, W (2018)
Walsh, K. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On decoloniality. DW Mignolo, & EC
Walsh, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, p.304.

12. [ https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0373.html ]
Training NLP Models for the Analysis of
16th Century Latin American Historical
Documents: Tagtog and the Geographic
Reports of New Spain

14. Mexico City Llanberis, Wales
+ Pix2Pix

15. YoloV4

16. [ LaKn America ]… is the land that gave
iniKaKon, substance, and form to the
coloniality of power, its system of social
classificaKon based on the idea of race
of ”conquerors over “conquered”, and
its structural foundaKon Ked to
modernity and Eurocentred capitalism.
Walsh, K. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On decoloniality. DW Mignolo, &
EC Walsh, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, p.304.
Ralph
Chaplin,
Solidarity,
June 30,
1917.
El Popular, TGP,
1948
Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth
Catlett [LOC]
Fernando Castro Pacheco, TGP
Méndez,
Deportagon for
Exterminagon
Estampa y Lucha, TGP
IWW Poster
Estampa y Lucha, TGP

18. Javier Pereda
Thank you
Javier Pereda
@TrinkerMedia