Keynote presentation that discusses and provides examples of decolonial praxis in the heritage sector. This was presented for taught and research postgraduates. The main objective was to present possible pathways to implement decolonial theory and praxis within Design using Cultural Heritage as case studies.

1. Approaches to
Decolonising
Research
Towards the decolonisation of
cultural heritage
Javier Pereda
@Trinkermedia
[ LJMU ]
Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration
Researcher Experimental Technologies Lab
[ Historic Environment Scotland ]
Senior Researcher Towards a National Collection

2. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Social Factors Technical Factors
Organisational Structures (Hierarchy)
Institutional Knowledge
Data Structures/Standardisation
(Multi) Cultural Representation
Information Literacy
Digital Literacy and Poverty
Copyright
Software Development
Language
Web Science | Digital Humanities | Design

3. Current (Socio) Technologic Challenges
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Ontologies/Conceptualisation
CIDOC-CRM Dublin Core
SKOS FOAF
Wikidata/DBPedia BL-DataModel
EDM HCWT
Knowledge Needs
Museums Libraries Galleries Archives Built
Heritage
Scientific
Research
Intangible
Heritage
Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Socio-Technical Factors
See: The New Online Museum
Manifesto in Museums and the
Web (Pereda, 2014)

4. Current (Socio) Technologic Challenges
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Socio-Technical Factors
Knowledge Representation
Human
Taxonomies, Folksonomies,
Controlled Keywords
Institutional/Field
Hyponymy, Classifications,
Hierarchies, Equivalents
Extended
Knowledge Associations
More complex in structure
Less complex in structure
[ Folksonomy ]
[ Ontology ]

5. Current (Socio) Technologic Challenges
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Social Machine
Cultural Heritage as a
Socio-Technical Factors
Knowledge Access
Know what is held
[ Social ]
Human
Taxonomies, Folksonomies,
Controlled Keywords
Institutional/Field
Hyponymy, Classifications,
Hierarchies, Equivalents
Extended
Knowledge Associations
Know how is described
[ Social ]
Know how the syntax
and data models
[ Socio-technical ]
Know how query language
[ Technical ]

6. Knowledge Access
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See: Pereda, J., et.al., 2017, September. Tangible User Interfaces as a Pathway for Information
Visualisation for Low Digital Literacy in the Digital Humanities. In IEEE VIS 2017-2nd Workshop on
Visualization for the Digital Humanities. http://vis4dh. org./.
User
Interfaces
Semantic Web
Technologies
Access
[ LOD ]
Socio-Technical
Infrastructure
Software as
a Service
( SaaS )
Cultural
Access
Community
Engagement

7. Knowledge Production!!!
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
User
Interfaces
Semantic Web
Technologies
Access
[ LOD ]
Socio-Technical
Infrastructure
Software as
a Service
( SaaS )
Cultural
Access
Community
Engagement
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

8. Knowledge Production!!!
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
User
Interfaces
Semantic Web
Technologies
Access
[ LOD ]
Socio-Technical
Infrastructure
Software as
a Service
( SaaS )
Cultural
Access
Community
Engagement
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Decoloniality seeks to make
visible, open up, and advance
radically distinct perspectives and
positionalities that displace
Western rationality as the only
framework and possibility of
existence, analysis and thought.
Walsh, K. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On
decoloniality. DW Mignolo, & EC Walsh, On
Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis,
p.304.

9. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
[ https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0373.html ]
Training NLP Models for the Analysis of 16th
Century Latin American Historical Documents:
Tagtog and the Geographic Reports of New Spain
Liceras-Garrido, Raquel

10. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Mapa de Tezozoalco, in: Relación de Teozacoalco y Amoltepec
[Cervantes, Hernando de (signer), Ruiz Zuazo, Juan (signer), Cervantes, Hernando de (scribe), García Icazbalceta,
Joaquín, 1825-1894 (collector). (1580-01-09). Relación de Teozacoalco y Amoltepec. Retrieved February 07, 2022,
from https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:67573049-3633-43b1-8c0e-82b8dc8c89db]

11. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Mexico City Llanberis, Wales
Hobbiton, Middle Earth

12. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

13. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

14. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
SlaveVoyages.org

15. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

16. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Penny Lane
Lennon and
McCartney
Musical bow lecture
examples 1979:
Tsongo/ Angola
bows British Library
Ee wan wabina ikuk
and Lukembe tuning
British Library
Yu Wele
British Library
“Seu” doutor
Souto, SophiA
National Library
Brazil
Candela
Oramas,
Buenavista Social
Club
War
Cole / Bob
Marley & W
Alabama Red
Wesley, Library of
Congress
Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry
Javier Pereda, Patricia A Murrieta-Flores and Nicholas Radburn et al. Afrobits: An interactive installation
of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.19
*Breaking colonialism
(1) geo-political influences,
(2) European and Western phenomenology and existentialism (geo-historical), and
(3) the convergence of technology and knowledge systems in which current Western,
and particularly Anglo-centres of research and education, have produced a
‘universal’ set of knowledge that is widely accepted (geo-cultural) (Mignolo 2002).
Up to 80% of the world’s research on
the history of slavery comes from the
USA, 10% from Brazil, followed by Great
Britain (commonly linked to the USA),
Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy,
and the Baltic States

17. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Javier Pereda, Patricia A Murrieta-Flores and Nicholas Radburn et al. Afrobits: An interactive installation
of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.19

18. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
Javier Pereda, Patricia A Murrieta-Flores and Nicholas Radburn et al. Afrobits: An interactive installation
of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.19

19. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
[ Latin America ]… is the land that gave
initiation, substance, and form to the
coloniality of power, its system of social
classification based on the idea of race of
”conquerors over “conquered”, and its
structural foundation tied to modernity and
Eurocentred capitalism.
Walsh, K. and Mignolo,
W., 2018. On
decoloniality. DW
Mignolo, & EC Walsh, On
Decoloniality Concepts,
Analysis, Praxis, p.304.
Ralph Chaplin, Solidarity, June 30, 1917.
El Popular, TGP, 1948
Harriet Tubman,
Elizabeth Catlett [LOC]
Fernando Castro Pacheco, TGP
Méndez, Deportation
for Extermination
Estampa y
Lucha, TGP
IWW Poster

20. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

21. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation

22. Knowledge
Production
Javier Pereda | @Trinkermedia
Compose
Artificial Intelligence
Mashups
Curate & Co-Curate
Citizen Science (Crowdsource)
Analysis
Automation
LenguasRadicales.cl