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Zusatztext "Museums in a Digital Age is thus a timely consideration of the role of the digital in the entire spectrum of museum activities?The?volume is?something much more attuned to the digital age which is its basis - a highly diverse! even eclectic! collection of papers broadly centred around the subject of the work." - Historic Environment Informationen zum Autor Ross Parry is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, a scholar of digital heritage and a historian of museum media and technology. He is the author of Recoding the Museum: digital heritage and the technologies of change, the first major history of museum computing. Klappentext Examining a range of articles! 'Museums in the Digital Age' explores the developments! functions and meanings that are associated with the museums' use of new media technologies. Zusammenfassung 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 media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing. It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address. With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research, this volume acts as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content. Divided into seven parts (on information, space, access, interpretation, objects, production and futures), the book presents a series of cross-sections through the body of digital heritage literature, each revealing how a different aspect of curatorship and museum provision has been informed, shaped or challenged by computing. Museums in a Digital Age is a provocative and inspiring guide for any student or practitioner of digital heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The practice of digital heritage and the heritage of digital practice, Ross Parry Part 1: Information: data, structure and meaning Introduction to Part 1, Ross Parry 2. A brief history of museum computerisation, David Williams 3. The changing role of information professionals in museums, Andrew Roberts 4. What is information in the museum context? Elizabeth Orna and Charles Pettitt 5. The world of (almost) unique objects, Robert Chenhall and David Vance 6. Standards for networked cultural heritage, David Bearman 7. Database as symbolic form, Lev Manovich 8. The museum as information utility, George Macdonald and Stephen Alsford 9. Museum collections, documentation and shifting knowledge paradigms, Fiona Cameron 10. Semantic dissonance: do we need (and do we understand) the Semantic Web? Ross Parry, Nick Poole and Jon Pratty 11. Building a universal digital memory, Piere Lèvy Part 2: Space: visits, virtuality and distance Introduction to Part 2, Ross Parry 12. On the Origins of the Virtual Museum, Erkki Huhtamo 13. From Malraux's imaginary museum to the virtual museum, Antonio M. Battro 14. Virtual spaces and museums, Andrea Bandelli 15. The virtual visit: towards a new concept for the electronic science centre, Roland Jackson 16. Empowering the remote visitor, Areti Galani and Matthew Chalmers 17. Museums outside walls: mobile phones and the museum of the everyday, Konstantinos Arvanitis Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity Introduction to Part 3, Ross Parry 18. Access to digital her...
