Theorizing Digital 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.Contributors:Nadia Arbach, Juan Antonio Barcelo, 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, Jose Ripper Kos, 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

ISBN 0262033534   Pages 480 ISBN13 9780262033534 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 885 Imprint MIT Press   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Format Hardback   Series title Media in Transition S. Publication date 25 Apr 2007   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2005056754   Width (mm) 178 DEWEY 306   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Rise and fall of the post-photographic museum : technology and the transformation of art by Peter Walsh		19
2		The materiality of virtual technologies : a new approach to thinking about the impact of multimedia in museums by Andrea Witcomb		35
3		Beyond the cult of the replicant - museums and historical digital objects : traditional concerns, new discourses by Fiona Cameron		49
4		Te Ahu Hiko : digital cultural heritage and indigenous objects, people, and environments by Deidre Brown		77
5		Redefining digital art : disrupting borders by Beryl Graham		93
6		Online activity and offline community : cultural institutions and new media art by Sarah Cook		113
7		A crisis of authority : new lamps for old by Susan Hazan		133
8		Digital cultural communication : audience and remediation by Angelina Russo and Jerry Watkins		149
9		Digital knowledgescapes : cultural, theoretical, practical, and usage issues facing museum collection databases in a digital epoch by Fiona Cameron and Helena Robinson		165
10		Art is redeemed, mystery is gone : the documentation of contemporary art by Harold Kraemer		193
11		Cultural information standards - political territory and rich rewards by Ingrid Mason		223
12		Finding a future for digital cultural heritage resources using contextual information frameworks by Gavan McCarthy		245
13		Engaged dialogism in virtual space : an exploration of research strategies for virtual museums by Suhas Deshpande and Kati Geber and Corey Timpson		261
14		Localized, personalized, and constructivist : a space for online museum learning by Ross Parry and Nadia Arbach		281
15		Speaking in Rama : panoramic vision in cultural heritage visualization by Sarah Kenderdine		301
16		Dialing up the past by Erik Champion and Bharat Dave		333
17		The morphology of space in virtual heritage by Bernadette Flynn		349
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