{"id":1181,"date":"2015-08-04T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/daao\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2015-08-06T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T00:38:02","slug":"hera-roberts-vivienne-binns-stories-of-the-central-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/daao\/blog\/2015\/08\/hera-roberts-vivienne-binns-stories-of-the-central-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Hera Roberts and Vivienne Binns: Stories of the Central West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend CAF<\/a> team members, Jo Holder , Catriona Moore (who is also on DAAO Editorial Board) and I travelled in sunny crisp weather to\u00a0Bathurst and Dubbo to continue our work with artist researchers and researcher communities in regional NSW as part of the Future Feminist Archive project. John Bayliss, Head, Macquarie Regional Library read\u00a0Simone Taylor’s (<\/span>Local Studies Officer, Dubbo Branch) \u00a0talk on archives and Pearl Gibbs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Eric Riddler, visual library archivist at AGNSW ( and another member of DAAO Editorial Board) also came to Western Plains Culture Centre in Dubbo to give a wonderful presentation \u00a0about resources available on\u00a0local Dubbo artists,\u00a0reminding\u00a0us that Hera Roberts was another Dubbo legend\u00a0https:\/\/www.daao.org.au\/bio\/hera-roberts\/personal_details\/?<\/a>\u00a0. Jessica Moore (WPCC Collections Officer) gave a fascinating talk on data management developments \u00a0and their implications at WPCC.<\/p>\n

In Bathurst,\u00a0FFA artist researcher Fiona MacDonald<\/a>\u00a0reported\u00a0on her ongoing work on Vivienne Binn<\/a>‘s Full Flight<\/a>. Some of Fiona’s archival research is hanging on the wall behind the absorbed participants in the reading room at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the image below. We also had data pushes at both locations where we added new records for local artists and exhibitions. ( I’ll load all into a project folder soon ;-))<\/p>\n

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The FFA project presents lots of interesting new challenges for DAAO data schema. The FFA is documenting much innovative participatory art projects. For instance, \u00a0how can we as a database adequately capture the complexity of Binn’s ‘Full Flight’, a two year journey of travelling and engaging with local communities? In the image above, four posters contain unbroken lists of names of\u00a0people involved in the project<\/a>. We need to always be thinking about the\u00a0role do we play as a digital content provider and metadata aggregator in supporting archival researchers \u2013 how do we enrich each other across digital analog platforms \u2013 how does the scrape of meta data work with material decay and loss let alone digital entropy? How can we ensure that our database practices\u00a0don’t contribute to\u00a0the erasure of some of the very complexity we are seeking to represent and distribute.<\/p>\n

We do many things on a digital design\u00a0level to distribute our data as freely as possible so it remains dynamic,\u00a0open\u00a0and free\u00a0so that we can deliver an inclusive picture of that variable and various concept ‘Australian art and design’. But we also need that hands-on, face-to-face involvement with the curators, collections managers, archivists and researchers working with the communities whose incredible archives are largely unknown outside the area. We’ve been doing a lot of face to face\u00a0this year and the feedback we’ve been get from so many different communities, groups, individual and institutions this year has been very gratifying. And all the user testing has been incredibly useful. (It’s on the list!)\u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n

We have also acquired some new moderators for DAAO, Jessica Moore, Collections Officer,\u00a0http:\/\/www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org”>WPCC<\/a>\u00a0and Fiona MacDonald FFA artist researcher of Bathurst Archives. BRAG among others. Welcome to DAAO! Moderators are our custodians and we very much appreciate the over 150 moderators on DAAO who each tender to their specific little gardens of interest. To find out more about moderators and how to become one: https:\/\/www.daao.org.au\/about-daao-moderators\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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