Museums in a digital age / editor, Ross Parry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parry, Ross.

Series:

Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Leicester readers in museum studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Technological innovations.

Museums.

Cultural property--Digitization.

Cultural property.

Digital media.

Digital preservation.

Museums--Data processing.

Museums--Collection management.

Museums--Curatorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 478 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

The practice of digital heritage and the heritage of digital practice / Ross Parry

A brief history of museum computerization / David Williams

The changing role of information professionals in museums / Andrew Roberts

What is information in the museum context? / Elizabeth Orna and Charles Pettitt

The world of (almost) unique objects / Robert Chenhall and David Vance

Standards for networked cultural heritage / David Bearman

Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich

The museum as information utility / George F. MacDonald and Stephen Alsford

Museum collections, documentation and shifting knowledge paradigms / Fiona Cameron

Semantic dissonance : do we need (and do we understand) the semantic Web? / Ross Parry, Nick Poole and Jon Pratty

Building a universal digital memory / Pierre Lévy

On the origins of the virtual museum / Erkki Huhtamo

From Malraux's imaginary museum to the virtual museum / Antonio M. Battro

Virtual spaces and museums / Andrea Bandelli

The virtual visit : towards a new concept for the electronic science centre / Roland Jackson

Empowering the remote visitor : supporting social museum experiences among local and remote visitors / Areti Galani and Matthew Chalmers

Museums outside walls : mobile phones and the museum in the everyday / Konstantinos Arvanitis

Access to digital heritage in Africa : bridging the digital divide / Lorna Abungu

My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people / Kevin Carey

My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people : a re-evaluation / Kevin Carey

Implementing a holistic approach to E-learning accessibility / Brian Kelly, Lawrie Phipps and Caro Howell

Usability evaluation for museum websites / Daniel Cunliffe, Efmorphia Kritou and Douglas Tudhope

Culture as a driver of innovation / Ranjit Makkuni

The Web and the unassailable voice / Peter Walsh

When the object is digital : properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning / Olivia C. Frost

Learning by doing and learning through play : an exploration of interactivity in virtual environments for children / Maria Roussou

Interactivity and collaboration : new forms of participation in museums, galleries and science centres / Christian Heath and Dirk Vom Lehn

Visitors' use of computer exhibits : findings from five gruelling years of watching visitors getting it wrong / Ben Gammon

Museums and virtuality / Klaus Müller

When all you've got is 'the real thing' : museums and authenticity in the networked world / Jennifer Trant

Authenticity and integrity in the digital environment : an exploratory analysis of the central role of trust / Clifford Lynch

Why museums matter / Marc Pachter

Defining the problem of our vanishing memory : background, current status, models for resolution / Peter Lyman and Howard Besser

Curating new media / Matthew Gansallo

Managing new technology projects in museums and galleries / Matthew Stiff

Rationale for digitization and preservation / Paul Conway

'Speaking for themselves' : new media and 'making the modern world' / Frank Colson and Jean Colson

The evaluation of museum multimedia applications : lessons from research / Maria Economou

A survey on digital cultural heritage initiatives and their sustainability concerns / Diane M. Zorich

Making the total museum possible / Tomislav Šola

Museums in the information era : cultural connectors of time and space / Manuel Castells

The shape of things to come : museums in the technological landscape / Simon J. Knell

Digital heritage and the rise of theory in museum computing / Ross Parry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-66631-8

0-203-71608-6

1-283-96521-6

1-135-66624-5

9780203716083

OCLC:

829461800