2011
DOI: 10.18352/lq.8000
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The Political Nature of Digital Cultural Heritage

Abstract: Collecting organizations such as libraries and museums are vehicles for shifting paradigms of knowledge and power. Digital technologies are also implicated with historical transformations in language, society, and culture. To discuss the digital is to engage simultaneously with an impressive array of simulacra, instantaneous communication, ubiquitous media, and global interconnectedness (Cameron & Kenderdine, 2007). Digital cultural heritage can be viewed as a political concept and practice, the relations bet… Show more

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“…Kulturarv er allerede politikk, vil flere hevde, som f.eks. Smith (2004), McCrary (2011 og Ronström (2001Ronström ( , 2008. Etnologen Owe Ronström argumenterer eksempelvis for at relevante studier av kulturarv i prinsippet er studier av kulturarvspolitikk.…”
Section: Kulturpolitiske Konsekvenser Av Kulturarvens Digitaliseringunclassified
“…Kulturarv er allerede politikk, vil flere hevde, som f.eks. Smith (2004), McCrary (2011 og Ronström (2001Ronström ( , 2008. Etnologen Owe Ronström argumenterer eksempelvis for at relevante studier av kulturarv i prinsippet er studier av kulturarvspolitikk.…”
Section: Kulturpolitiske Konsekvenser Av Kulturarvens Digitaliseringunclassified
“…The difference is also emphasised in the disciplinary discourse of digitization, which differentiates between preservation of physical copies and curation of digital copies (Yakel 2007;Abrams, Cruse & Kunze 2009;McCrary 2011). The political nature of the semantic difference between knowledge and heritage was confirmed by Europeana senior staff, who noted that the EU Commission were very adamant regarding the implementing of the cultural heritage discourse into Europeana's communication flow (Interview anonymous senior staff, Europeana, 2011).…”
Section: The European Archive and Its Indexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The digitization process thus transforms heritage artefacts into dynamic digital material without strong boundaries between data and metadata (Abrams, Cruse & Kunze 2009). The difference is also emphasised in the disciplinary discourse of digitization, which differentiates between preservation of physical copies and curation of digital copies (Yakel 2007;Abrams, Cruse & Kunze 2009;McCrary 2011). The political nature of the semantic difference between knowledge and heritage was confirmed by Europeana senior staff, who noted that the EU Commission were very adamant regarding the implementing of the cultural heritage discourse into Europeana's communication flow (Interview anonymous senior staff, Europeana, 2011).…”
Section: The European Archive and Its Indexmentioning
confidence: 99%