Digital archives and collections : creating online access to cultural heritage /
"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 arc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Series: | Anthropology of media ;
volume 11 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800731950 1800731957 9781800731868 1800731868 |