Open AccessWorking in the digital contact zone. The digital sharing portal for Roald Amundsen’s Gjoa Haven collection
Author(s) -
Tone Wang
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.6650
Subject(s) - haven , norwegian , the arctic , contact zone , art history , geography , art , world wide web , visual arts , oceanography , history , computer science , ethnology , geology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , combinatorics
In this article a story of digital sharing is told. The focus is on a collectionof traditional Inuit material culture brought together on King William Islandover 22 months in 1903–1905 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Today,shared interest in and concern for this collection centres the collaboration betweenthe Nattilik Heritage Centre in Gjoa Haven, Arctic Canada, and the Museumof Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. A digital sharing portal launched in 2017sets out to realise the space and framework for crucial collaborative practicesconcerning knowledge sharing and access to the material. The article discusses thisprocess, using Clifford’s perspectives on the contact zone (1997) as an intake todiscuss the construction and practice of this digital sharing site.