I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where I research how museums catalogue and digitize  cultural heritage.

My research explores strategies of collaborative documentation, postcolonial collections practices, and the representation of multiple knowledges in museums. I looks at how standards and categories as well as the architecture of digital museum databases work to construct and mediate knowledge about objects in museums. I am also interested in projects that seek to connect source communities with their cultural heritage online; I asks how these online search tools might create useful dialogue between indigenous and non-indigenous ways of knowing.

Drawing on methodologies of document analysis, usability studies and ethnography, my work is at the intersection of science and technology studies, information studies, and anthropology.

Location

Vancouver

Disciplines

• Anthropology

Affiliation

University of British Columbia

Website

http://utoronto.academia.edu/HannahTurner