Online collections management systems have the unprecedented ability to curate information from web- based sources beyond museum walls, ranging from video, photo, oral history, and library archives to content contributed by users themselves. Presenters will share how intangible cultural heritage, like performances, stories, language, relationships, and cultural values, can be documented and integrated into our collection systems, allowing users to understand our collections and the people they represent in new ways. #diggingdeeper

1. Can We Curate Intangible Cultural Heritage
in Collections Management Systems?
Nancy Bruegeman, Collections Manager
Museum of Anthropology, University of BC, Vancouver
nancy.bruegeman@ubc.ca

2. Object Catalogue
(MOA CAT)
collection-online.moa.ubc.ca
Reciprocal Research
Network (RRN)
www.rrncommunity.org
Accessible from the MOA website: moa.ubc.ca
(Research & Collections page)

3. Developed as a public access tool for our reconceived
‘visible storage’ galleries…

4. Case map – every case on the map is a hotlink to see
all the objects inside…

5. Online version of MOA CAT

6. > 7,000 object records contain original language
name data

7. Audio clips of original language names…

8. Artist Ian Reid talks about how the old Heiltsuk art style
inspires him.

9. Narrative stories added when possible…

10. Original language place names added when known…

11. The entire collection is mapped to the globe
(previously “Google Earth”; now “Cesium” app)

12. Multi-generational
relationships

13. Reciprocal Research Network (RRN)
rrncommunity.org
Key component of MOA's 2005-2010 "A Partnership of Peoples” project
Co-developed by the Musqueam Indian Band, the Stó:lō Nation/Tribal
Council, the U’mista Cultural Society and MOA
-online tool to facilitate reciprocal and collaborative research about
cultural heritage from the Northwest Coast of B.C.
-enables communities, cultural institutions and researchers to
collaborate on shared projects, upload files, hold discussions and create
social networks
28 institutions currently provide object records: Canada, USA, UK, Brazil

15. Users can add original language names

16. …which show up in related object records

17. Ask a question—to other users or an institution…

18. Start or join a discussion…

19. Start or join a project…

20. Thank you!
nancy.bruegeman@ubc.ca