Block 2.2: Connectivities built by people and groups Špela Ledinek Lozej (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Slovenia): Collaborative inventory – participatory linking of cultural heritage collections in the Slovenian-Italian cross-border region.

1. COLLABORATIVE INVENTORY
PARTICIPATORY LINKING OF CULTURAL
HERITAGE COLLECTIONS IN THE
SLOVENIAN-ITALIAN CROSS-BORDER
REGION
Špela Ledinek Lozej
The standard project ZBORZBIRK
Cultural Heritage in the Collections between the Alps
and the Karst
Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities,
Empowerment, and Recognition of Cultural Heritages
in Mediatized Memory Ecologies
Hamburg (Germany),
14th December 2018

2. ZBORZBIRK
Cultural Heritage in the Collections between the Alps and the Karst
(1) Brief presentation of the ZBORZBIRK
project
(2) Outcomes of the project

3. ZBORZBIRK
Cultural Heritage in the Collections between the Alps and the Karst
Specific objective: Valuation of the
cultural heritage collections on the
Slovenian-Italian border region:
• identification
• registration
• digitalization
• contextualization
• arrangements & investments
• presentation & promotion

4. ZBORZBIRK
Cultural Heritage in the Collections between the Alps and the Karst
Area: Kanalska dolina/Val Canale, Rezija/Val Resia, Nadiške
doline/Valli del Natisone, Terske doline/Valli del Torre,
Gornjesavska dolina/Valle Gornjesavska dolina, Breginj,
Kobarid, Livek, Kambreško, Lig and Brda/Collio.
Lead partner: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Institute of the Slovenian Ethnology
Project Partners:
• University of Udine
• Institute for Slovenian Culture
• 2 museums: the Goriška Museum and the Gornjesavski
Museum Jesenice
• 6 local communities: municipalities of Kobarid, Brda,
Kanal ob Soči (Slovenia) and of Bardo/Lusevera,
Tipana/Taipana and Podbonesec/Pulfero (Italia)
Period: 1/10/2012 – 31/3/2015

5. Identification and registry of the collections
TERRITORY:
• Slovenia: 15
collections
• Italy: 19 collections
COMPILATION
• 1970s and 1980s: 15
• 1990s: 7
• 1st decennium of the
20th century: 9
• during the project: 3

6. Identification and registry of the collections
OWNERSHIP
• Private collections: 21
• collecting: 18
• bequest: 3
• Common(al) collections: 12
• associations: 8
• local community: 4
• Museum branch: 1

7. Identification and registry of the collections
ACCESSIBILITY
• Regularly open to the public: 4
• Open by prior arrangement with the
owner/manager: 24
• Inaccessible to the public: 6

8. Identification and registry of the collections
Typological specifics:
⁻ holy cards collections (2)
⁻ postcard collection (1)
Content specifics:
Collections of local crafts:
₋ carpentry (2)
₋ blacksmithing (2)
₋ sharpening of knives, scissors and
tools (1)
Collections of certain types of objects:
₋ collection of rakes (1)
₋ collection of irons (1)
₋ collection of clothing (2)
₋ collection of carnival characters
(2)
₋ collection of carvings (1)
₋ collections of objects from the
WWI (8)

9. Registry of the collections
Application for entering the data into the repository

10. Contextualization of the collections and objects
Fieldwork: recording of the stories
on the collections and objects

11. Investments and arrangemnets for the presentation of collections

12. Equipmnet and arrangemnet of the collections

13. Website: http://zborzbirk.zrc-sazu.si/it-it/home.aspx
➢ presentation of the project
➢ access to the digital
repository
➢ access to the publications
➢ access to the gathered
stories and
videopresentations

14. http://zborzbirk.zrc-sazu.si/sl-si/zbirke/seznam.aspx

15. http://zborzbirk.zrc-sazu.si/sl-si/zbirke/seznam.aspx

16. Dissemination and promotion
material
➢Roll-ups
➢leaflets
➢CD
➢guidebook
➢Conference
proceedings
➢poster

17. Info-points
➢ Bardo / Lusevera
➢ Bijače /Biacis
➢ Čarni varh / Montefosca
➢ Gorenji Tarbilj / Tarbil di Sopra
➢ Kanal
➢ Livek
➢ Prosnid / Prossenicco
➢ Rateče
➢ Solbica / Stolvizza
➢ Špeter / San Pietro al Natisone
➢ Ukve / Uggovizza

18. Workshop »The Collections Connect«
Kanal and Kambreško,
18th May 2013

19. International conference »Ethnological Collections, Oral Tradition and
Cultural Tourism Between the Alps and the Carst
Università degli Studi di Udine,
29th May 2014

20. 1) What are the outcomes of the project
three years after the official end of the
project?
2) What are lessons learnt pertinent to
• the collaborative / contributory inventory
• and the cross-border network of
collections?

21. COLLABORATIVE INVENTORY ─PARICIPATORY ARCHIVE
„The fundamental characteristics of the
proposed [participatory] approach are
decentralised curation, radical user
orientation, and contextualisation of
both records and the entire archival
process.“ (Huvila 2008: 16)

22. MATERIALITY vs. VIRTUALITY
REAL OBJECTS vs. DIGITALISED OBJECTS

23. »The Collections Connect«

24. Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities,
Empowerment, and Recognition of Cultural Heritages in
Mediatized Memory Ecologies
Thank you for your attention!
Špela Ledinek Lozej
Research Centre for the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts
Institute of Slovenian Ethnology
spela.ledinek@zrc-sazu.si
Hamburg, 14th December 2018