History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities or Memory as Metadata
dc.contributor.author | Toner, Peter | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Sydney Australia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-13T22:50:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-13T22:50:38Z | |
dc.date.created | September 30 2004 | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-11T10:41:40Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Metadata, as is well known, is data about data. It is certainly possible to develop a much more elaborate definition, and others are in a much better position to do so than I am. For my purposes, I would like to strip back the definition of metadata to its essential core, and that is data about data. In particular, though, I have two kinds of data in mind. The reference data are digitized audio recordings made in northeast Arnhem Land between the mid-1920s and the early 1980s—but they could in practice be any kind of digitized cultural heritage. The metadata which refer to these recordings are people’s memories—memories about the singers, about the ethnomusicologists or anthropologists who produced them, about the recording sessions, or about the musical past more generally. In my research I have always been interested in memory, and its contrasts with history, but to think of memory as metadata is an important way of linking the concerns of Yolngu traditional owners with those of archivists, and to foreground the prospects and challenges of repatriation in a digital age. I should acknowledge from the outset that thinking of memory as metadata has been partially inspired by the “Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management” developed by Jane Hunter and her colleagues at DSTC. If memory was always a key interest in this research, it was the idea of metadata annotations of the kind developed by DSTC being attached to digital objects that has clarified the link between memory and the digital domain—although the issues for Yolngu custodians have yet to be worked out (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/hunter/hunter.html) | en_AU |
dc.description.version | This paper was originally published online as a refereed conference paper through Open Conference Systems by the University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts in 2004 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.citation | Toner, Peter G. “History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities, or, Memory as Metadata”. Researchers, Communities, institutions, Sound Recordings, eds. Linda Barwick, Allan Marett, Jane Simpson and Amanda Harris. Sydney: University of Sydney, 2003. | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80879 | |
dc.publisher | Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings | en_AU |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures | |
dc.source.uri | https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1518/1/Toner%20rev1.pdf | |
dc.title | History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities or Memory as Metadata | |
dc.type | Conference paper | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 9 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Toner, Peter, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.authoremail | repository.admin@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Toner, Peter, u9804939 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.absfor | 190409 - Musicology and Ethnomusicology | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub9178 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | Migrated | |
local.type.status | Published Version |
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