Introduction to the themed section ‘digital heritage and the public’

Díaz–Andreu, Margarita

doi:10.1080/13527258.2017.1286780

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“…The field of digital heritage started to take shape in the 1990s but has expanded more substantially in the last ten years, focussing especially on the roles and impact of digital technologies in museum and gallery contexts (for foundational work on the topic, see Fahy 1995;Anderson 1997;Arvanitis 2002;Galani and Chalmers 2002;Parry 2007aParry , 2007bParry , 2010Cameron and Kenderdine 2010). Since then, published material in this area has been concerned primarily with digital engagement with the past or the digitisation of analogue resources (see all the citations given above and, more recently, Kidd 2011;Geismar 2012;Ridge 2014;Were 2015;King, Stark and Cooke 2016;Díaz-Andreu 2017;Jones et al 2017), whereas literature dealing specifically with digitally-born and digitally-enabled research remains very limited. Moreover, the few existing studies of this kind tend to take one of two directions.…”

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Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Bonacchi

Krzyzanska

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article provides the first theoretical treatment of the ontologies and epistemologies of digital heritage research at the time of the interconnected and social web, based on extensive empirical and analytical investigation. We draw on observations and concepts developed while conducting the first study of public experiences of the past that utilised big data -over 1.4 million Facebook posts, comments and replies -to revisit or generate new theory from the ground up. We expect that this will help scholars from a range of fields in the humanities, social and computing sciences who are interested in undertaking digital heritage research to understand the deeper implications of their work, the complexities and limitations of the knowledge they create, and its value in exposing the processes via which heritage is made and assessed.

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Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Bonacchi

Krzyzanska

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…Other authors look at cultural content digitisation as far as it leading to changes in social interaction. The process of digitisation generates positive externalities, as it turns cultural centres into contact zones and into places of cultural and social mediation, in addition to linking the digital media with democracy [16]. On the one hand, access to cultural content through digital media creates an enhancement effect, thus increasing the number of visitors inside physical cultural institutions as well [17].…”

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Culture as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development. An Investigation into the Process of Cultural Content Digitisation in Romania

Fanea-Ivanovici

2018

Sustainability

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In an age of rapid technological changes, new ways of cultural production-consumption and dissemination-access to cultural content are creating great opportunities for promoting cultural heritage at home and abroad as a prerequisite for sustainable development. The aims of this paper are to scrutinize the main opportunities of the process of cultural content digitisation with a focus on Romania and to highlight the main fields in which the country is still lagging behind. The article discusses technical internet-related endowment and use of internet by households in urban and rural areas, the existing digital cultural content, the importance of open access, e-accessibility, digital archives, e-museums, e-libraries, etc., as well as the main national and European strategies and agendas that Romania has based its cultural digitisation and heritage preservation priorities on. The paper is an empirical inquiry into the progress achieved, the positioning among the other European countries and the perspectives of cultural digitisation for Romania. Such matters are important determinants of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as long as access to public services and cultural content is a major objective of Europe 2020 Strategy.

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“…The internet, as a kind of social media, could offer a crucial platform that is communitybased for sustainable and holistic heritage conservation [18]. It fosters an open atmosphere such that all the motivated participants can become involved in the cultural heritage protection easily with access to the internet [19,20]. Furthermore, ICTs offer an openparticipatory platform, in which citizens can play an active role, to a broader range of stakeholders across scales, classes, races, genders, ages, which is crucial for collaborative planning and conservation [21,22].…”

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“…In parallel, mapping is one of the crucial tools to get an insight into the community mechanism and user's expectations [25,26,54,59,60]. Moreover, in some cases, online surveys based on selected platforms are spread to strengthen the right and ability of multi voices [19,28,33,36,55] It should be noted that the methods mentioned above are not exclusive of each other. Instead, they are utilized as an integrated toolkit a number of times.…”

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A Review of the Role of Social Media for the Cultural Heritage Sustainability

2021

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During the last 20 years, with the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), an emerging interest has appeared in Digital Community Engagement (DCE) in the process of cultural heritage management. Due to a growing need to involve a broader community in the Historic Urban Landscape approach, social media are considered one of the most important platforms to promote the public participation process of urban heritage conservation in the context of rapid urbanization. Despite the growing literature on DCE, which has delivered a general overview of different digital technologies and platforms to enhance heritage conservation, little research has been done on taking stock of the utilization of social media in this process. This study aims to fill the research gap by providing a more comprehensive picture of the functionalities of social media platforms and their impacts on sustainable urban development through a systematic literature review. As a result, 19 out of 248 DCE relevant articles are selected as objects to illustrate the contribution of social media. The study identified the characteristics of these applied social media tools, explores their roles and influences in cases. The article concludes that social media offers a platform for a wider range of stakeholders to have a voice in the decision process of cultural heritage management, and it should be widely applied to encourage citizens from all over the world.

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Introduction to the themed section ‘digital heritage and the public’

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Culture as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development. An Investigation into the Process of Cultural Content Digitisation in Romania

A Review of the Role of Social Media for the Cultural Heritage Sustainability

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