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Investigating curatorial voice with corpus linguistic techniques: the case of Dorothy George and applications in museological practice
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posted on 2023-06-09, 20:30 authored by Andrew Salway, James BakerWe seek to demonstrate how corpus linguistic techniques can facilitate a comprehensive account of curatorial voice in a large digitised museum catalogue and hence leverage its value as a resource for generating new knowledge about: curatorial practice; the historical and cultural contexts of curation; and, the content of collections. We worked with 1.1 million words written by the historian M. Dorothy George between 1930 and 1954 to describe 9330 late-Georgian satirical prints. George’s curatorial descriptions were analysed in terms of their typical informational content and with regards to the extent George included interpretation and evaluation in her descriptions. We discuss how results from such analyses can provide a basis for addressing questions about George’s curatorial voice and, more generally, suggest how this approach could benefit museological practice around the production of descriptions and the re-purposing of legacy catalogues for digital access and analysis of collections.
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Curatorial Voice: M. Dorothy George and the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires at the British Museum, 1935-1954; G2495; BRITISH ACADEMY; DRH18\180023
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- Published
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- Accepted version
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Museum and SocietyISSN
1479-8360Publisher
University of Leicester Open JournalsExternal DOI
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2Volume
18Page range
151-169Department affiliated with
- History Publications
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- Sussex Humanities Lab Publications
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2020-02-05First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-02-06First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-02-04Usage metrics
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