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Theorizing digital cultural heritage : a critical discourse
In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the essays in this volume offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The contributors -- scholars and practitioners from a range of relevant disciplines -- ground theory in practice, considering how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences. The contributors examine the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for \"virtual cultural heritage\" -- the preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time, immersive, and interactive techniques. The essays in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage will serve as a resource for professionals, academics, and students in all fields of cultural heritage, including museums, libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology, as well as those in education and information technology. The range of issues considered and the diverse disciplines and viewpoints represented point to new directions for an emerging field. - Publisher.
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Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage
Computer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication.
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Museums in a Digital Age
The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.
However, 'digital heritage' (as an area of practice and as a subject of study) does not exist in one single place. Its evidence base is complex, diverse and distributed, and its content is available through multiple channels, on varied media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing.
It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address. With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research, this volume acts as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content. Divided into seven parts (on information, space, access, interpretation, objects, production and futures), the book presents a series of cross-sections through the body of digital heritage literature, each revealing how a different aspect of curatorship and museum provision has been informed, shaped or challenged by computing.
Museums in a Digital Age is a provocative and inspiring guide for any student or practitioner of digital heritage.
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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage
Theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage.
In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the essays in this volume offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The contributors—scholars and practitioners from a range of relevant disciplines—ground theory in practice, considering how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences. The contributors examine the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for \"virtual cultural heritage\"—the preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time, immersive, and interactive techniques.
The essays in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage will serve as a resource for professionals, academics, and students in all fields of cultural heritage, including museums, libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology, as well as those in education and information technology. The range of issues considered and the diverse disciplines and viewpoints represented point to new directions for an emerging field.
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Nadia Arbach, Juan Antonio Barceló, Deidre Brown, Fiona Cameron, Erik Champion, Sarah Cook, Jim Cooley, Bharat Dave, Suhas Deshpande, Bernadette Flynn, Maurizio Forte, Kati Geber, Beryl Graham, Susan Hazan, Sarah Kenderdine, José Ripper Kós, Harald Kraemer, Ingrid Mason, Gavan McCarthy, Slavko Milekic, Rodrigo Paraizo, Ross Parry, Scot T. Refsland, Helena Robinson, Angelina Russo, Corey Timpson, Marc Tuters, Peter Walsh, Jerry Watkins, Andrea Witcomb
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Cultural Heritage Information
This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types, their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services.
Cultural Heritage Information, the first book in the peer-reviewed i-Research series, contains eleven chapters that have been contributed by seventeen leading academics from six countries. The book begins with an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of the topic of digital cultural heritage information with the subsequent chapters addressing specific issues and research activities in this topic. The ordering of the chapters moves from scene setting on policies and infrastructures, through considerations of interaction, access and objects, through to concrete system implementations. The book concludes by looking forward to issues around sustainability, in the widest sense, that are necessary to think about in order to maximize the availability and longevity of our digital cultural heritage. The key topics covered are:
* Managing digital cultural heritage information
* Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions)
* Management of cultural heritage information: policies and practices
* Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies
* Metadata in cultural contexts – from manga to digital archives in linked open data environment
* Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture
* Cultural heritage information users and usability
* A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems
* Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries
* Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials: the PATHS perspective
* Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues.
Readership: This will be essential reading for researchers in Information Science specifically in the areas of digital libraries, digital humanities and digital culture. It will also be useful for practitioners and students in these areas who want to know the different research issues and challenges and learn how they have been handled in course of various research projects in these areas.
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Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage
This collection presents a wide range of interdisciplinary methods to study, document, and conserve material cultural heritage. A wide variety of cultural heritage objects have been recorded, examined, and visualised. The objects range in date, scale, materials, and state of preservation and so pose different research questions and challenges for digitization, conservation, and ontological representation of knowledge. This book is an outcome of interdisciplinary research and debates conducted by the participants of the COST Action TD1201, Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, 2012-16 and is an Open Access publication available under a CC BY-NC-ND licence.
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Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice
Exploring the use of digital methods in heritage studies
and archaeological research
The two volumes of Digital Heritage and Archaeology in
Practice bring together archaeologists and heritage
professionals from private, public, and academic sectors to discuss
practical applications of digital and computational approaches to
the field. Contributors thoughtfully explore the diverse and
exciting ways in which digital methods are being deployed in
archaeological interpretation and analysis, museum collections and
archives, and community engagement, as well as the unique
challenges that these approaches bring.
In this volume, essays address methods for preparing and
analyzing archaeological data, focusing on preregistration of
research design and 3D digital topography. Next, contributors use
specific case studies to discuss data structuring, with an emphasis
on creating and maintaining large data sets and working with legacy
data. Finally, the volume offers insights into ethics and
professionalism, including topics such as access to data,
transparency and openness, scientific reproducibility, open-access
heritage resources, Indigenous sovereignty, structural racial
inequalities, and machine learning.
Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice highlights
the importance of community, generosity, and openness in the use of
digital tools and technologies. Providing a purposeful
counterweight to the idea that digital archaeology requires
expensive infrastructure, proprietary software, complicated
processes, and opaque workflows, these volumes privilege
perspectives that embrace straightforward and transparent
approaches as models for the future.
Contributors: Lynne Goldstein
| Ethan Watrall | Brian Ballsun-Stanton | Rachel
Opitz | Sbastian Heath | Jolene
Smith | Philip I Buckland | Adela
Sobotkova | Petra Hermankova |
Theresa Huntsman | Heather
Richards-Rissetto | Ben Marwick |
Li-Ying Wang | Carrie Heitman |
Neha Gupta | Ramona Nicholas |
Susan Blair | Jeremy Huggett
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The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites
Containing first-hand accounts from leading thinkers, curators, exhibition designers, historians, heritage practitioners, technologists and interaction designers, this book presents a fascinating picture of how today's cultural institutions are undergoing a transformation through innovative applications of digital technology.
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