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1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Summary |
This book addresses the state-of-the-art initiatives as well as challenges, policy, and strategy issues in developing a digital heritage ecosystem within the broader context of an emerging digital culture. Case studies are drawn from the United States, Europe, and Asia to showcase the breadth of innovative ideas in delivering, communicating, interpreting, and transforming cultural heritage content and experience through multi-modal, multimedia interfaces. Aiming to offer a balanced overview of digital heritage and culture issues and technologies, the book pulls together expert views and updates on these four broad areas, namely, a) policy and strategy, b) applications, c) business models, and d) emerging concepts and directions. Policy and strategy chapters provide insights into how digital heritage strategy and policy are formulated and implemented in cultural heritage institutions and public agencies. Applications chapters present novel installed and mobile applications deploying technical tools in innovative assemblies and evaluate their usefulness, effectiveness along with other metrics in delivering an enriched user experience. Business model chapters unveil a variety of partnership models that have been successfully structured for the benefit of stakeholders. Emerging concepts and directions chapters propose research directions pointing to new signposts in technologically enhanced delivery of digital heritage and culture. This practical book will be of interest to policy makers, business people, researchers, curators, and educators as well as the culture-minded public seeking to understand how the burgeoning field of digital heritage and culture may impact our social, cultural, and recreational activities. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
IT-enabled innovation as a museum strategy: experience of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan / James Lin Quo Ping -- Designing digital heritage competence centers -- a Swedish model / Halina Gottlieb -- 7 lessons learned for digital culture / Christine Kuan -- Reinventing MoMA's education programs for the twenty-first century visitor / Jackie Armstrong, Deborah Howes and Wendy Woon -- Onemillionmuseummoments: a cultural intertwingling / Suzanne Akhavan Sarraf -- Documentary storytelling using immersive and interactive media / Michael Mouw -- Making of BTRTM Virtual Temple / June Sung Sew and Eric Deleglise -- Digital media in museums: a personal history / Selma Thomas -- Using new media for exhibit interpretation: a case study / Herminia W. Din, Fang-Yin Lin and Darrel L. Bailey -- The virtual collection of Asian masterpieces (VCM): a universal on-line museum / Manus Brinkman -- A tale on a leaf: promoting Indonesian literature and culture through the development of the Lontar Digital Library / Ruly Darmawan and Djembar Lembasono -- The future of history is mobile: experiencing heritage on personal devices / Christopher Jones -- A cultural heritage panorama: trajectories in embodied museography / Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw -- From product to process: new directions in digital heritage / Eugene Ch'ng, Henry Chapman and Vince Gaffney -- I sho u: an innovative method for museum visitor evaluation / Anita Kocsis and Sarah Kenderdine -- Digital cultural heritage is getting crowded: crowd-sourced, crowd-funded -- And crowd ?engaged / Leonard Steinbach. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology.
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REFERENCE / General.
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TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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Archival materials -- Digitization.
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Archives -- Administration -- Technological innovations.
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Library materials -- Digitization.
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Cultural property -- Digitization.
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Cultural property -- Management.
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Library materials -- Conservation and restoration.
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Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration.
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Electronic records -- Management.
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| Added Author |
Din, Herminia, 1968-
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Wu, Steven, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Digital heritage and culture. Strategy and implementation 9789814522977 (OCoLC)880557557 |
| ISBN |
9789814522984 (electronic bk.) |
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9814522988 (electronic bk.) |
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