Curating Data

Collecting:
a non-visual dataset of plants

Assignment 2: Wikidata x Dekoloniale.de

Assignment 3:
Visualising and Visceralising
Pig Production in Denmark

Archiving notes
are you a filer or a piler?

This course taught me to have these questions in
mind, when interacting with datasystems

Is it a friend of the planet?
Is it a friend of democracy?

Data is authored

Victoria Kloppenborg Lunde, 2025

Think of data as the sum of a curatorial process of collecting, classifying, displaying and archiving information.
But remember; being represented by data is like loosing a part of yourself.

Data curation is a means for justice.
Think; how is the animal captured in the line chart?
You can bend original purposes of collections in more righteous ways.
Data is caregiving, a diary, a calendar

Data practices are invisible, inaccessible and often rapidly changing.
Think; being represented by data is like loosing a part of yourself. A portrait you don't know how to read.

"We are archivists, since we have to be. We don’t have a choice. This decision is already made, or determined by the contemporary technological condition." (Yuk Hui 2013: Archivist Manifesto)

Think of data curation as worldbuilding
Data curation is not a reflection of our existing world. It shapes the way we see and make sense of the world (Kitchin, 2014, p. 24).

My engagement with the Curating Data course has been an exploration of how information is produced, structured, and experienced. In this portfolio, I grapple with the processes of collecting, categorising, displaying, and archiving as interwoven practices. Through this course i have learned to think of the act of curating data as both an ethical, aesthetic, and political practice and it always - however invisible it might be - carries traces of decisions made by situated actors about what to include, how to structure it, and how to communicate it.