Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

We find ourselves in a moment of transition or perhaps in a stage of construction to another way of being in the world that concerns all levels of life, including knowledge. This way of being in it implies that we work to imagine the best possible routes so that knowledge, its forms and languages allow an inclusive and robust look from the point of view of social justice. In my work I establish some questions related to ethics and the construction of metadata in the digital humanities, metadata that has an important tradition in the world of academia, mainly heritage institutions. Among the fundamental questions that we must propose is: (i) To think of present form metadata, to learn the readings of new languages and codes. (ii) The need for new literacies to interpret and create new knowledge. (iii) Understanding the institutionalization of opening metadata (iv) The importance of presevation metadata and the algorithms they use.