, digital economy, human-computer interaction, design thinking, computational thinking Keynote at Transforming Heritage Research in a Transforming World, the International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece, 16-17 April 2024. https://alandix.com/academic/talks/CAA-GR-2024/

1. Alan Dix
https://alandix.com/
@alanjohndix
From Family Reminiscence
to Scholarly Archive

3. today I am not talking about …
• numerosity and qualitative–quantitative reasoning
• deep digitality and digital thinking
• next generation UX tools
• long tail of small data
• intelligent interfaces
• digital light
• now
• physicality
• walking round Wales
• virtual crackers and slow time
• modeling dreams, regret and the emergence of self

4. plugs

6. Troedrhiwfuwch
tales of a lost land
Elizabeth Jones
Swansea Uni. and
Cardiff Metropolitan Univ.

7. Troedrhiwfuwch … on the ground

8. a living community

9. existing digital archive

10. envisionments

11. prototypes

12. … and installation

14. rich
stories

15. DEMO TIME
https://alandix.com/labs/talkover/

16. TalkOver

17. personal stories are
universal stories

20. InterMusE team
Illinois
Rachel Cowgill
Alan Dix
Simon McVeigh
Rupert Ridgwell
Charlotte Armstrong
Frankie Perry
Maureen Reagan
J. Stephen Downie
Christina Bashford
Mike Twidale
Joseph Goldstein
Kathleen McGowan
York, BL
Swansea
USA UK
NZ David Bainbridge

21. communities and archives
connecting to community:
Krannert, Illinois
Borthwick, York
from community:
British Musical Societies
Huddersfield, York, Belfast

22. democratise digitisation capture

23. challenge
reconcile
community
empowerment
scholarly
authority

24. open and scholarly
● scalable
● incremental
● auditable
● updateable
● connected
● accessible
high volume
community scan
low volume
high quality
professional scan
if needed
obtain hi-res
community
use
scholarly
use

25. HUDD~RSFIELD MUSIC CLUB
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1926 AT 7,4.5
FLONZALEY
STRING QUARTET
LeadinR Violin
Violin
Viola
'Cello
PROGRAMME
ADOLFO BETTI
ALFRED POCHON
NICOLAS MOLDAVAN
IVAN D'ARCHAMBEAU
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26. DEMO TIME
https://alandix.com/labs/ocr-markup/

28. HUDD~RSFIELD MUSIC CLUB
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FOOTER

29. HIGHFIELD HAll .. NEW NORTH ROAD
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1926 AT 7,4.5
VENUE & DATE
HIGHFIELD HALL, NEW NORTH ROAD
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1926 AT 7-45

30. LeadinR Violin
Violin
Viola
'Cello
ADOLFO BETTI
ALFRED POCHON
NICOLAS MOLDAVAN
IVAN D'ARCHAMBEAU
PERFORMERS
Leading Violin ADOLFO BETTI
Violin ALFRED POCHON
Viola NICOLAS MOLDAVAN
'Cello IVAN D'ARCHAMBEAU

31. … plus … side benefit
before after

33. community data flows
Community
groups and individuals
rest of
the world
other
communities
1
4
2
3

34. island data flows
from world to community
• major collections
• war records
• historical census
• ancestry.com
Community
groups and individuals
rest of
the world
1

35. island data flows
within the community
• celebrating and remembering
• growing skills and capabilities
Community
groups and individuals
2

36. island data flows
between communities
• finding connections
• learning from each other
e.g. Facebook albums
Community
groups and individuals
other
communities
3

37. island data flows
from community to world
• for sharing …
• for scholarship
Community
groups and individuals
rest of
the world
4

38. some take aways …
personal stories are universal stories
blurring the scholarly/personal boundary
making ourselves redundant

39. From Family Reminiscence
to Scholarly Archive
Alan Dix
https://alandix.com/academic/talks/CAA-GR-2024