Laurisa Sastoque (she/her) is a Digital Preservation Training Officer at Digital Preservation Southampton, an enterprise unit of Southampton Digital Humanities. DPS seeks to support professionals in the cultural heritage sector by offering training, consulting, data recovery opportunities, and upholding the importance of digital skills in the GLAM sector. Laurisa has led successful workshops such as Mastering Metadata for Digital Preservation and Foundations of Digital Preservation. Laurisa is also a PhD student in Latin American studies at the University of Cambridge as a Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies scholar, where she researches spatial narratives and Latin American diasporas. She is originally from Bogotá, Colombia. In her spare time, Laurisa enjoys travelling, trying out new coffee shops, and fantasizing about the dog she will (one day) adopt.
Ethical Data Sharing in the Digital Archives Space—An Enterprise Perspective
In the cultural heritage and archival context, professionals often face the challenge of managing, digitizing, and providing access to collections with ties to violent colonial legacies. Collections data of this nature is sensitive—its documentation and proliferation must be undertaken with a great deal of care. This talk delves into a number of the conceptual and practical frameworks that Digital Preservation Southampton, an enterprise unit dedicated to working with organisations in the sector to promote the long-term sustainability of digital assets, has encountered in its associated projects. Attendees will meditate on the balance between openness and sovereignty that must be sought out in the case of data that pertains to marginalised communities.
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