Digitization of heritage collections as indicator of innovation

Abstract

Heritage institutions house cultural and research content, which is the key source to stimulate soft innovation. Despite the potential, heritage collections are mostly inaccessible via digital mediums. We analyse the macro, meso and micro conditions of heritage organizations across Europe to identify the key determinants that foster soft innovation as reflected by the share of collection digitization and online publication. We find that organizations respond positively to an environment of high consumer digital literacy and sustainable resource allocation that enables slack, skilled staff and long-term strategic planning. Innovation is thus, in fact, enhanced by digital literacy from both producers and consumers.

Technology-Powered Strategies to Rethink the Pedagogy of History and Cultural Heritage through Symmetries and Narratives

“…For many years, museums all around the world have been using disparate and largely incompatible databases to gather and manage the information about their collections, although there are a few cities or regions that have common databases for their tangible or intangible heritage [10,15]. In the meantime web sites have flourished, but they constituted information silos with little possibilities for exchange and reuse.…”

“…Following the notable investments in digitization during the early 2000s [10], nowadays there are vast numbers of digital resources available that could be trawled through searching for historical and cultural symmetries. Obviously, this is too great a task for a lone humanities expert, and that is precisely where AI is called to provide assistance.…”

Mapio Ecosystem Sgiliau Digidol Amgueddfeydd - Adroddiad Cyfnod Un

“…Fodd bynnag, ychydig o dystiolaeth sydd ar sut mae llythreneddau digidol yn cael eu defnyddio yn y sector amgueddfeydd. Mae tystiolaeth o'r sector treftadaeth yn pwysleisio pwysigrwydd llythrennedd digidol o'r sector a chynulleidfaoedd/defnyddwyr er mwyn arloesi (Borowiecki & Navarrete, 2017).…”

Digital knowledge generation and the appropriability trade-off

“…iii) The mobilization of tacit knowledge can take place by means of communication networks (Video conferencing) and especially the creation of communities of practice where digital infrastructure enables the effective interaction of practitioners specializing in a particular knowledge domain (Subashini Rita Vivek, 2012), the digitalization of heritage collections (Borowiecki and Navarrete, 2016), and, iv) most importantly, the sharing of protocols and procedures by means of such applications as groupware (Soto-Acosta, Colomo-Palacios, Popa, 2014; Hafeez-Baig and Gururajan, 2012); iv) agents active in product markets that are unrelated to the innovation can extract and access the knowledge that is relevant for their own innovation activities by means of digital un-coding procedures based upon digital content analysis.…”