Recoding the Museum - Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

Informationen zum Autor Ross Parry Klappentext Drawing upon a range of professional and theoretical sources! this book offers a history of museum computing. It attempts to explain a series of tensions between curatorship and the digital realm and reveals how the sector has experienced a broadening of participation! and a widening of creative horizons. Zusammenfassung Through an historical approach, Ross Parry excavates cultural assumptions and values that provide the basis of museum information management and display, and that are still used to this day. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Museum/Computer: a history of disconnect? 2. From the 'day book' to the 'data bank': the beginnings of museum computing 3. Disaggregating the collection 4. Recalibrating authenticity 5. Rescripting the visit 6. Rewriting the narrative 7. Reorganising production 8. Computers and compatibility

Product details

• Authors: Ross Parry, Ross (University of Leicester Parry, Parry Ross
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415353885
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35388-5
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Museum Meanings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies