Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3215: Cultural Heritage and Digitisation Lab

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Module Aims

By the end of this module, you will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how to work effectively as a researcher, working across legal, ethical and practical issues. You will learn how to communicate and work as part of a team, and manage your time effectively and efficiently. You will also study at least one targeted research topic in-depth.

During the module, you will receive support, training and mentoring from your tutors to address or resolve one scenario-based or clinical-based legal, ethical or practical question. You will be tasked with conducting original independent research. You may be involved in data collection and production via client interviewing, archival research and/or digitisation.

With this module, you will gain experience across multiple disciplines relevant to a particular topic, as well as academic and practical research methods.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Develop methodological research skills, specifically in reading, designing, and conducting experimental research. 2. Demonstrate knowledge of experimental research studies in multiple disciplinaries.
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Exercise informed judgement concerning the practical constraints of conducting research in multiple disciplinaries 4. Exhibit an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and practice.
Personal and Key Skills	5. Communicate effectively in a manner appropriate to a professional research environment. 6. Conduct both independent and directed research tasks. 7. Exercise critical judgement in the form of cogent and persuasive writing.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:

copyright, contract and cultural heritage law;
open access business models and new revenue generation;
restitution and decolonisation of cultural collections;
digitisation technologies, workflows and processes;
data management, storage, privacy, and cultural sensitivities;
digitisation;
2D and 3D scanning; and
engagement with editing software.

Note that the module content will vary according to Lab partner needs and research focus.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
27.5	122.5

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	27.5	11 x 2.5-hour workshops
Guided Independent Study	55	Workshops preparation
Guided Independent Study	67.5	Formative and summative assessments preparation

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Relevant reading and projects:

Mathilde Pavis and Andrea Wallace, Response to the Sarr-Savoy Report (2019)
Mathilde Pavis and Andrea Wallace, Intellectual Property Rights Repatriation (2020)
Black South West Network, The Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2020)
Andrea Wallace and Ronan Deazley, Display At Your Own Risk (2016)
Michael Weinberg, Thomas Flynn and Neil Stimler, GLAM3D.org (2020)
Andrea Wallace, Critical Open GLAM (2020)

The organisations below are all partners on the GLAM-E Lab and of Exeter Law School. The scenarios, legal questions or clinical work you will perform will be based on their practice and collections.