Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities

Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities
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Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9780081001783
ISBN-13 : 0081001789
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities by : Arjun Sabharwal

Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to such records has also ensured that such records remain available to researchers and the public as sources of knowledge, memory, and identity. Digital curation presents an important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods, documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to content and associated metadata. Researchers in the digital humanities have extensively applied computing to research; for them, continued access to primary data and cultural heritage means both the continuation of humanities scholarship and new methodologies not possible without digital technology. Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities, therefore, comprises a joint framework for preserving, promoting, and accessing digital collections. This book explores at great length the conceptualization of digital curation projects with interdisciplinary approaches that combine the digital humanities and history, information architecture, social networking, and other themes for such a framework. The individual chapters focus on the specifics of each area, but the relationships holding the knowledge architecture and the digital curation lifecycle model together remain an overarching theme throughout the book; thus, each chapter connects to others on a conceptual, theoretical, or practical level. - Theoretical and practical perspectives on digital curation in the digital humanities and history - In-depth study of the role of social media and a social curation ecosystem - The role of hypertextuality and information architecture in digital curation - Study of collaboration and organizational dimensions in digital curation - Reviews of important web tools in digital humanities

Digital Curation: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Digital Curation: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
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Publisher : IGI Global
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 9781522569220
ISBN-13 : 1522569227
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Curation: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice by : Management Association, Information Resources

The effective use of technology offers numerous benefits in protecting cultural heritage. With the proper implementation of these tools, the management and conservation of artifacts and knowledge are better attained. Digital Curation: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a critical source of academic knowledge on the preservation, selection, collection, maintenance, and archiving of digital materials. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as electronic resource management, digital preservation, and virtual restoration, this publication is an ideal reference source for digital curators, technology developers, IT professionals, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students interested in the curation and preservation of digital resources.

Museums, Heritage, and Digital Curation

Museums, Heritage, and Digital Curation
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9464260750
ISBN-13 : 9789464260755
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Museums, Heritage, and Digital Curation by : Wim Hupperetz

From the practice of a museum institution, six chapters reflect on the challenge of change in the areas of digitization, narrative, inclusivity, and participation.

Digital Curation

Digital Curation
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Publisher : American Library Association
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780838914304
ISBN-13 : 0838914306
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Curation by : Gillian Oliver

Useful as both a teaching text and day-to-day working guide, this book outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources.

Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies

Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9783110536539
ISBN-13 : 3110536536
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies by : Clifford B. Anderson

How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research and learning in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible to digital humanists? The goal of this volume is to provide an overview of how religious and theological libraries and archives are supporting the nascent field of digital humanities in religious studies. The volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to create digital humanities projects in theology and religious studies. Topics include curating collections as data, conducting stylometric analyses of religious texts, and teaching digital humanities at theological libraries. The shift to digital humanities promises closer collaborations between scholars, archivists, and librarians. The chapters in this volume constitute essential reading for those interested in the future of theological librarianship and of digital scholarship in the fields of religious studies and theology.

Digital_Humanities

Digital_Humanities
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780262528863
ISBN-13 : 026252886X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital_Humanities by : Anne Burdick

A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry—including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation—to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.

The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation

The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0367690586
ISBN-13 : 9780367690588
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation by : Fiona Cameron

The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage, curation and the notion of the human in the context of the profusion of new types of societal data and production processes driven by the intensification of data economies and through the emergence of new technologies. In so doing, the book makes a case for the development of new types of heritage that comprise AI, automated systems, biological entities, infrastructures, minerals and chemicals - all of which have their own forms of agency, intelligence and cognition. The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, archives, libraries, galleries, archaeology, cultural heritage management, information management, curatorial studies and digital humanities.

Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities

Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781317156512
ISBN-13 : 131715651X
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities by : Agiatis Benardou

What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.

Doing Digital Humanities

Doing Digital Humanities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781317481126
ISBN-13 : 1317481127
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Doing Digital Humanities by : Constance Crompton

Digital Humanities is rapidly evolving as a significant approach to/method of teaching, learning and research across the humanities. This is a first-stop book for people interested in getting to grips with digital humanities whether as a student or a professor. The book offers a practical guide to the area as well as offering reflection on the main objectives and processes, including: Accessible introductions of the basics of Digital Humanities through to more complex ideas A wide range of topics from feminist Digital Humanities, digital journal publishing, gaming, text encoding, project management and pedagogy Contextualised case studies Resources for starting Digital Humanities such as links, training materials and exercises Doing Digital Humanities looks at the practicalities of how digital research and creation can enhance both learning and research and offers an approachable way into this complex, yet essential topic.

The Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780429687259
ISBN-13 : 0429687257
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Digital Humanities by : Christopher Millson-Martula

The digital humanities in academic institutions, and libraries in particular, have exploded in recent years. Librarians are constantly developing their management and technological skills and increasing their knowledge base. As they continue to embed themselves in the scholarly conversations on campus, the challenges facing subject/liaison librarians, technical service librarians, and library administrators are many. This comprehensive volume highlights the wide variety of theoretical issues discussed, initiatives pursued, and projects implemented by academic librarians. Many of the chapters deal with digital humanities pedagogy—planning and conducting training workshops, institutes, semester-long courses, embedded librarian instruction, and instructional assessment—with some chapters focusing specifically on applications of the “ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.” The authors also explore a wide variety of other topics, including the emotional labor of librarians; the challenges of transforming static traditional collections into dynamic, user-centered, digital projects; conceptualizing and creating models of collaboration; digital publishing; and developing and planning projects including improving one’s own project management skills. This collection effectively illustrates how librarians are enabling themselves through active research partnerships in an ever-changing scholarly environment. This book was originally published as a special triple issue of the journal College & Undergraduate Libraries.