Theorizing digital cultural heritage : a critical discourse / edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cameron, Fiona.

Kenderdine, Sarah.

Series:

Media in transition.

Media in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Digitization.

Cultural property.

Computer art.

Library materials--Digitization.

Library materials.

Virtual museums.

Museums--Collection management.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage.

Contents:

Rise and fall of the post-photographic museum : technology and the transformation of art / Peter Walsh

Materiality of virtual technologies : a new approach to thinking about the impact of multimedia in museums / Andrea Witcomb

Beyond the cult of the replicant

museums and historical digital objects : traditional concerns, new discourses / Fiona Cameron

Te Ahu Hiko : cultural heritage and indigenous objects, people, and environments / Deidre Brown

Redefining digital art : disrupting borders / Beryl Graham

Online activity and offlline community : cultural institutions and new media art / Sarah Cook

Crisis of authority : new lamps for old / Susan Hazan

Digital cultural communication : audience and remediation / Angelina Russo and Jerry Watkins

Digital knowledgescapes : cultural, theoretical, practical and usage issues facing museum collection databases in a digital epoch / Fiona Cameron and Helena Robinson

Art is redeemed, mystery is gone : the documentation of contemporary art / Harald Kraemer

Cultural information standards

political territory and rich rewards / Ingrid Mason

Finding a future for digital cultural heritage resources using contextual information frameworks / Gavan McCarthy

Engaged dialogism in virtual space : an exploration of research strategies for virtual museums / Suhas Deshpande, Kati Geber, and Corey Timpson

Localized, personalized, and constructivist : a space for online museum learning / Ross Parry and Nadia Arbach

Speaking in Rama : panoramic vision in cultural heritage visualization / Sarah Kenderdine

Dialing up the past / Erik Champion and Bharat Dave

Morphology of space in virtual heritage / Bernadette Flynn

Toward tangible virtualities : tangialities / Slavko Milekic

Ecological cybernetics, virtual reality, and virtual heritage / Maurizio Forte

Geo-storytelling : a living archive of spatial culture / Scot T. Refsland, Marc Tuters, and Jim Cooley

Urban heritage representations in hyperdocuments / Rodrigo Paraizo and Jose Ripper Kos

Automatic archaeology : bridging the gap between virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and archaeology / Juan Antonio Barcelo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09909-4

9786612099090

0-262-26974-0

1-4294-7710-5

OCLC:

145464678