Cultural Heritage Innovation Labs in Africa

Innovation Labs in cultural heritage institutions
emerged in the last years as specialized units which help researchers, artists,
entrepreneurs, educators, innovators and any interested citizens and
communities to use digital collections in innovative ways. These labs answer
two major needs, helping discovery in vast digital collections, and applying
new analytic/visualization tools by a wider user base, a process which stirs
creative use and reuse of collections and innovation.Most active innovation labs are located in Europe and North America.This dataset was compiled using published reports on innovation labs and internet sources from the public domain between May 2019 and July 2019 by Fidelity Phiri, a visiting researcher at UCL Qatar for projects coordinated by Dr Milena Dobreva. The dataset helps to understand the cultural heritage innovation labs landscape in Africa. While at the time of publishing (20 August 2020) there are no active innovation labs in cultural heritage institutions, one library (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt) and one museum (Livingstone museum, Zambia) are planning to open such labs. Within this specific setting, the research on Africa aimed to identify stakeholders which can support the setting of innovation labs in cultural heritage institutions. Innovation centres, business incubators and fablabs can play such a role. The rationale for including these institutions is that they could be instrumental for setting up cultural heritage labs on a continent where more work is needed to overcome the digital divide.This map illustrates the dataset. https://www.mapcustomizer.com/map/Innovation labs in Africa

文化遗产机构中的创新实验室在近年涌现，成为专门的机构单元，旨在协助研究人员、艺术家、企业家、教育工作者、创新者和任何感兴趣的公民及社区以创新的方式利用数字藏品。这些实验室满足了两大需求：一方面，助力于浩如烟海的数字藏品中的发现；另一方面，通过更广泛的用户群体应用新的分析/可视化工具，激发对藏品进行创造性使用和再利用的过程，推动创新。大多数活跃的创新实验室位于欧洲和北美。本数据集由Fidelity Phiri编制，他于2019年5月至2019年7月间担任UCL Qatar的访问学者，负责由Milena Dobreva博士协调的项目。该数据集旨在帮助理解非洲文化遗产创新实验室的格局。截至2020年8月20日出版时，文化遗产机构中尚无活跃的创新实验室，但埃及的亚历山大图书馆和赞比亚的利文斯顿博物馆各有一家计划开设此类实验室。在此特定背景下，针对非洲的研究旨在识别能够支持文化遗产机构设立创新实验室的利益相关者。创新中心、商业孵化器和创客实验室可以发挥此类作用。纳入这些机构的理由在于，它们在数字鸿沟问题尚需解决的大陆上，对于设立文化遗产实验室可能起到关键作用。此地图展示了数据集的内容。https://www.mapcustomizer.com/map/Innovation labs in Africa