Digital Archives and Collections - Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the chapters in the book trace digital archives from technical advancements and postcolonial initiatives to programming alternatives, editing content, and active use of digital archives.

About the author

Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is Heisenberg-Professor at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

Summary

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question.

Product details

• Authors: Katja Muller, Katja Müller
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800731851
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-185-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthropology of Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Archiving, preservation and digitization, Museum Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology (General)