Jul 2014 | 360pp
Paperback
9781783300266
Price: £69.95
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The Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) is a pivotal resource for cultural heritage scholars, professionals and students providing a compendium of current research, educational initiatives and best practices.
Featuring sixteen original works selected by the distinguished editorial board of international scholars, ARCHI presents a broad spectrum of the cultural heritage informatics field. Whether you are interested in cultural heritage preservation, digitization, digital humanities, user behaviour, technology or educational practices, this edited collection is the central source for current and emerging trends in the rapidly expanding cultural heritage informatics field.
The major sections include:
ARCHI is the polestar publication for cultural heritage informatics scholars, practitioners, and students. By challenging readers to explore a variety of contexts and offering critical evaluation of conventional practices, ARCHI promotes new ideas and offers new pathways of development for the cultural heritage informatics field.
PART I: BEST PRACTICES
1. Digital Preservation: Whose Responsibility? - Michèle V. Cloonan, Martha Mahard
2. Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with Folksonomies: A Review - Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Abebe Rorissa
3. Experiments in Cultural Heritage Informatics: Convergence and Divergence - Jeannette A. Bastian, Ross Harvey
PART II: DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
4. Web Representation and Interpretation of Culture: The Case of a Holistic Healing System - Hemalata Iyer, Amber J. D’Ambrosio
5. Knitting as Cultural Heritage: Knitting Blogs and Conservation - Jennifer Burek Pierce
PART III: EDUCATION
6. Developing 21st Century Cultural Heritage Information Professionals for Digital Stewardship: A Framework for Curriculum Design - Mary W. Elings, Youngok Choi, Jane Zhang
7. Local History and Genealogy Collections in Libraries: The Challenge to Library and Information Science Educators - Rhonda L. Clark, James T. Maccaferri
8. Initiatives in Digitization and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia - Abebe Rorissa, Teklemichael T. Wordofa, Solomon Teferra
9. Creating the Online Literary & Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania - Alan C. Jalowitz, Steven L. Herb
10. The Community Heritage Grants Program in Australia: Report of a Survey - Sigrid McCausland, Kim M. Thompson
11. Towards a Study of “Unofficial” Museums - Cheryl Klimaszewski
PART IV: TECHNOLOGY
12. Ghosts of the Horseshoe, a Mobile Application: Fostering a New Habit of Thinking about the History of University of South Carolina’s Historic Horseshoe - Heidi Rae Cooley, Duncan A. Buell
13. Tune-in, Turn-on, Dropout: Section 108(c) and Evaluating Deterioration in Commercially Produced VHS Collections - Walter Forsberg, Erik Piil
14. The Devils You Don’t Know: The New Lives of the Finding Aid - Sheila O’Hare, Ashley Todd-Diaz
15. If You Build It, Will They Come? A Review of Digital Collection User Studies - Ashley Todd-Diaz, Sheila O’Hare
PART V: REVIEWS (NASCENT)
16. Memories of a Museum Visit - Carol Lynn Price
"This is a carefully planned, well-organised record of cultural heritage storage, preservation and access, and it deserves to be widely read."
- Australian Library Journal
"Much wider-ranging than even its generic title suggests...with interesting, useful, and highly specific individually authored articles that stand strongly on their own merits..This first "annual" bodes well for the series, and collections librarians of every stripe should at the least least rummage its table of contents."
-Collections Management
"Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut volume of a new series. These scholars are dedicated to practice, reasoning, behaviour, professionalism, and technique in the essential realm of cultural heritage preservation. They are, more than most of the world’s scholars, devoted to tracing the treasured continuities of how we live and keep our lives. The reports in this first volume will inform and inspire all parts of our field."
- David Carr, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina