This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types, their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services.
Cultural Heritage Information, the first book in the peer-reviewed i-Research series, contains eleven chapters that have been contributed by seventeen leading academics from six countries. The book begins with an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of the topic of digital cultural heritage information with the subsequent chapters addressing specific issues and research activities in this topic. The ordering of the chapters moves from scene setting on policies and infrastructures, through considerations of interaction, access and objects, through to concrete system implementations. The book concludes by looking forward to issues around sustainability, in the widest sense, that are necessary to think about in order to maximize the availability and longevity of our digital cultural heritage. The key topics covered are:
- Managing digital cultural heritage information
- Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions)
- Management of cultural heritage information: policies and practices
- Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies
- Metadata in cultural contexts – from manga to digital archives in linked open data environment
- Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture
- Cultural heritage information users and usability
- A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems
- Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries
- Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials: the PATHS perspective
- Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues.
Readership : This will be essential reading for researchers in Information Science specifically in the areas of digital libraries, digital humanities and digital culture. It will also be useful for practitioners and students in these areas who want to know the different research issues and challenges and learn how they have been handled in course of various research projects in these areas.
Tabla de materias
1. Managing digital cultural heritage information – Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven
2. Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions) – Chris Alen Sula
3. Management of cultural heritage information: policies and practices – Gobinda Chowdhury
4. Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies – Melissa Terras
5. Metadata in cultural contexts – from manga to digital archives in linked open data environment – Shigeo Sugimoto, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Tetsuya Mihara and Tsunagu Honma
6. Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture – Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman
7. Cultural heritage information users and usability – Sudatta Chowdhury
8. A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems – Juliane Stiller and Vivien Petras
9. Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries – Ali Shiri
10. Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials: the PATHS perspective – Paul Clough, Paula Goodale, Mark Hall and Mark Stevenson
11. Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues – Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven
Sobre el autor
Professor Gobinda Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, Ph D, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at i School@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the i Schools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers.
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