Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures - Setting the Scene for Participation

Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures examines the infrastructural qualities of museum work that influence the ability of cultural institutions to support participatory and socially inclusive missions.

List of contents

1. Infrastructural Setting of Memory Institutions; 2. Backstage Uncertainties; 3. Boundaries of Responsibility; 4. Negotiating Boundaries of Access; 5. Sustaining Infrastructure: Staff, Resources, and Constraints; 6. Conclusion: An Infrastructure-Based Approach to Backstage Participation

About the author

Quoc-Tan Tran holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hamburg and an MRes in Library and Information Science from the University of Lille. A former Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow in the POEM network (Participatory Memory Practices), he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University since 2025, working on the ROARA project (Repercussions of Open Access on Research Assessment). His research areas include open culture, data infrastructure, and the sociology of scientific knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Quoc-Tan Tran
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032735139
• ISBN: 978-1-032-73513-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Participatory Memory Practices
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; History, Cultural Studies, ART / Museum Studies, Humanities, Information technology: general issues, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Information technology: general topics, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology