Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Katja Müller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-143-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New Order

Chapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management Systems

Chapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming Alternatives

Chapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical Structures

Chapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial Agendas

Chapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and Tangibility

Conclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the Future

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Media
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-143-7 / 1805391437
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-143-2 / 9781805391432
Zustand	Neuware