About

Documentation

Introduction
Dr. Anne Luther
research
Ẹyo Otọ
Eiloghosa Obobaifo
Object Review and Research
Imogen Coulson
Itan Edo, Fieldwork and Oral History
Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie
Identifying Map Content
Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie
Provenance
Dr. Felicity Bodenstein
The Identification of Archives and Photographic Collections and the Review Process for Inclusion in Digital Benin
Imogen Coulson and Dr Felicity Bodenstein
Developing Linking Vocabularies for Archival Material
Imogen Coulson and Ermeline de la Croix
Documentation on Interactive Oral History Videos, Object Digitisation and Archival Records
Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie
Digitisation of Historic Objects at the National Museums, Lagos and Benin City, and Archival Records at the Institute For Benin Studies
Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie
data
Metadata Mapping and Vocabularies
Imogen Coulson and Dr. Anne Luther
Data Acquisition and Data Management
Gwenlyn Tiedemann and Dr. Anne Luther
consultation
Use of derogatory, racist and harmful language
Chao Tayiana
Approaching Colonial Photographs with Care
Dr. Temi Odumosu
resources
Digital Benin Project Citation
Guiding Parameters for Archival Records and Photography Collections
The Digital Benin team
Guiding Parameters for Objects and Archival Records/Information
The Digital Benin team
Sensitive Content

Digital Benin collates digital material from institutions, and some of this material is inherently colonial and contains words, terms and phrases that are inaccurate, derogatory and harmful towards African and African diasporic communities. Catalogue transcriptions, book titles, exhibition titles and museum titles may contain harmful terms. We recognise the potential for the material to cause physical and mental distress as well as evoke strong emotions. Owing to the scale of the collection’s data, a process to implement sensitive-content warnings in the displayed data is still incomplete. The material within the catalogue does not represent Digital Benin’s views. Digital Benin maintains a strong anti-colonial, anti-racist position and affirms its support for centring the humanity of historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Read more about the background of this statement here