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List of contents
1. Managing digital cultural heritage information - Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven 2. Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions) - Chris Alen Sula 3. Management of cultural heritage information: policies and practices - Gobinda Chowdhury 4. Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies - Melissa Terras 5. Metadata in cultural contexts – from manga to digital archives in linked open data environment - Shigeo Sugimoto, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Tetsuya Mihara and Tsunagu Honma 6. Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture - Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman 7. Cultural heritage information users and usability - Sudatta Chowdhury 8. A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems - Juliane Stiller and Vivien Petras 9. Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries - Ali Shiri 10. Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials: the PATHS perspective - Paul Clough, Paula Goodale, Mark Hall and Mark Stevenson 11. Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues - Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven
About the author
Professor Gobinda Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the iSchools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers.
Summary
This peer-reviewed monograph gives a comprehensive account of research in digital cultural heritage and is the first volume in the iResearch series.
