Digitisation Of Culture

Author : Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811076978

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Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives by Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada Pdf

This book explores the digitization of culture as a means of experiencing and understanding cultural heritage in Namibia and from international perspectives. It provides various views and perspectives on the digitization of culture, the goal being to stimulate further research, and to rapidly disseminate related discoveries. Aspects covered here include: virtual and augmented reality, audio and video technology, art, multimedia and digital media integration, cross-media technologies, modeling, visualization and interaction as a means of experiencing and grasping cultural heritage. Over the past few decades, digitization has profoundly changed our cultural experience, not only in terms of digital technology-based access, production and dissemination, but also in terms of participation and creation, and learning and partaking in a knowledge society. Computing researchers have developed a wealth of new digital systems for preserving, sharing and interacting with cultural resources. The book provides important information and tools for policy makers, knowledge experts, cultural and creative industries, communication scientists, professionals, educators, librarians and artists, as well as computing scientists and engineers conducting research on cultural topics.

Author : Gertraud Koch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317238928

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Digitisation by Gertraud Koch Pdf

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concepts for studying the new cultural dynamics that are evident as a result of digitisation. It considers how the cultural changes triggered by digitisation processes can be approached empirically. The chapters include carefully chosen examples and help readers from disciplines such as Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, and Science & Technology Studies to grasp digitisation theoretically as well as methodologically.

Author : Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cultural policy
ISBN : 9811076987

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Digitisation of Culture by Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada Pdf

This book explores the digitization of culture as a means of experiencing and understanding cultural heritage in Namibia and from international perspectives. It provides various views and perspectives on the digitization of culture, the goal being to stimulate further research, and to rapidly disseminate related discoveries. Aspects covered here include: virtual and augmented reality, audio and video technology, art, multimedia and digital media integration, cross-media technologies, modeling, visualization and interaction as a means of experiencing and grasping cultural heritage. Over the past few decades, digitization has profoundly changed our cultural experience, not only in terms of digital technology-based access, production and dissemination, but also in terms of participation and creation, and learning and partaking in a knowledge society. Computing researchers have developed a wealth of new digital systems for preserving, sharing and interacting with cultural resources. The book provides important information and tools for policy makers, knowledge experts, cultural and creative industries, communication scientists, professionals, educators, librarians and artists, as well as computing scientists and engineers conducting research on cultural topics.

Author : Deepanjali Mishra,Sasmita Rani Samanta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000771947

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Digitalization of Culture Through Technology by Deepanjali Mishra,Sasmita Rani Samanta Pdf

In the era of digitalization, the world has shrunk and has succeeded in bringing people closer than expected. It has provided a social platform which enables people to interact with an individual, group of users anywhere irrespective of time. It has assisted in various academic, non academic as well as social activities which has made lives more easier. Various researches have been conducted that explored the versatile use of the Internet by the language communities and there has been growing research with various strands based on the possibilities of new technologies for the revitalization as well as for the documentation and preservation of cultures. Digitalization could indeed be the best possible methodology to revive the indigenous culture and folk traditions and practices all over the world and would be useful to demonstrate innovative technologies and prototypes, including digital repositories, digital archives, virtual museums and digital libraries, which result from established practices and achievements in the field. This volume brings out the contributions of renowned researchers, academicians and folklorists across the globe. It will be a resource to all researchers, linguistics and learners in the field of Digitalization of Cultural Studies.

Author : Ian Ruthven,G. G. Chowdhury
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856049306

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Cultural Heritage Information by Ian Ruthven,G. G. Chowdhury Pdf

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.

Author : Alfredo M. Ronchi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783540752769

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eCulture by Alfredo M. Ronchi Pdf

Do virtual museums really provide added value to end-users, or do they just contribute to the abundance of images? Does the World Wide Web save endangered cultural heritage, or does it foster a society with less variety? These and other related questions are raised and answered in this book, the result of a long path across the digital heritage landscape. It provides a comprehensive view on issues and achievements in digital collections and cultural content.

Author : Marinos Ioannides,Dieter Fellner,Andreas Georgopoulos,Diofantos Hadjimitsis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642168734

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Digital Heritage by Marinos Ioannides,Dieter Fellner,Andreas Georgopoulos,Diofantos Hadjimitsis Pdf

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Third International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2010) on the historical island of Cyprus. The focal point of this conference was digital heritage, which all of us involved in the documentation of cultural heritage continually strive to implement. The excellent selection of papers published in the proceedings reflects in the best possible way the benefits of exploiting modern technological advances for the restoration, preservation and e-documentation of any kind of cultural heritage. Above all, we should always bear in mind that what we do now may be used by people in another century to repair, rebuild or conserve the buildings, monuments, artifacts and landscapes that seem important. Recent events like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, fires and insurrections show that we can never be too prepared for damage to, and loss of, the physical and, non-tangible elements of our past and, in general, our cultural heritage. To reach this ambitious goal, the topics covered included experiences in the use of innovative recording technologies and methods, and how to take best advantage of the results obtained to build up new instruments and improved methodologies for do- menting in multimedia formats, archiving in digital libraries and managing a cultural heritage. Technological advances are very often reported in detail in specialized fora. This volume of proceedings establishes bridges of communication and channels of co- eration between the various disciplines involved in cultural heritage preservation.

Author : Charlie Gere
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781861895608

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Digital Culture by Charlie Gere Pdf

From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume. In this revised and expanded second edition, taking account of new developments such as Facebook and the iPhone, Charlie Gere charts in detail the history of digital culture, as marked by responses to digital technology in art, music, design, film, literature and other areas. After tracing the historical development of digital culture, Gere argues that it is actually neither radically new nor technologically driven: digital culture has its roots in the eighteenth century and the digital mediascape we swim in today was originally inspired by informational needs arising from industrial capitalism, contemporary warfare and counter-cultural experimentation, among other social changes. A timely and cutting-edge investigation of our contemporary social infrastructures, Digital Culture is essential reading for all those concerned about the ever-changing future of our Digital Age. “This is an excellent book. It gives an almost complete overview of the main trends and view of what is generally called digital culture through the whole post-war period, as well as a thorough exposition of the history of the computer and its predecessors and the origins of the modern division of labor.”—Journal of Visual Culture

Author : Gertraud Koch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317238911

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Digitisation by Gertraud Koch Pdf

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concepts for studying the new cultural dynamics that are evident as a result of digitisation. It considers how the cultural changes triggered by digitisation processes can be approached empirically. The chapters include carefully chosen examples and help readers from disciplines such as Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, and Science & Technology Studies to grasp digitisation theoretically as well as methodologically.

Author : Taher, Mohamed
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799883654

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Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities by Taher, Mohamed Pdf

In achieving civic engagement and social justice in smart cities, literacy programs are offered in the society by three essential information service providers: libraries, archives, and museums. Although the library and museum services are documented in literature, there is little evidence of community-led library or museum services that make a full circle in understanding community-library, community-archive, and community-museum relationships. The Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities examines the application of tools and techniques in library and museum literacy in achieving civic engagement and social justice. It also introduces a new outlook in the services of libraries and museums. Covering topics such as countering fake news, human rights literacies, and outreach activities, this book is essential for community-based organizations, librarians, museum administrations, education leaders, information professionals, smart city design planners, digital tool developers, policymakers engaged in diversity, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262552417

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The Politics of Mass Digitization by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Pdf

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization—including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb—to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.

Author : Nick Birch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656608134

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The Impact of Digitisation on Creative and Cultural Industries by Nick Birch Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.5, Central Queensland University, course: Creative Arts Administration, language: English, abstract: Digitization has impacted the creative arts since its inception and has even driven most sectors to where they stand today. Digitization is the conversion of information to a digital or binary format so that it may be processed by a computing device, making it easier to access, share and preserve (Whatis, N/A). The digitization of information enriches its quality, has made it possible to store in compact forms and enables it to be shared instantly. Advertising can more easily reach the masses and digital selves borderline immortality. Advancements in technology have seen the entertainment industry thrive in spite of also causing damage to sales. Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) has ushered in a new era of deception, warping reality and even creating new ones. In filmmaking, the line between imagination and reality has all but disappeared. Advertising can at times create controversy over what is an acceptable level of illusion. Even when informed, however, our vulnerability to accepting distorted realities seems to endure.

Author : Danilo Giglitto,Luigina Ciolfi,Eleanor Lockley,Eirini Kaldeli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000840988

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Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage by Danilo Giglitto,Luigina Ciolfi,Eleanor Lockley,Eirini Kaldeli Pdf

This edited book brings together best examples and practices of digital and interactive approaches and platforms from a number of projects based in European countries to foster social inclusion and participation in heritage and culture. It engages with ongoing debates on the role of culture and heritage in contemporary society relating to inclusion and exclusion, openness, access, and bottom-up participation. The contributions address key themes such as the engagement of marginalised communities, the opening of debates and new interpretations around socially and historically contested heritages, and the way in which digital technologies may foster more inclusive cultural heritage practices. They will also showcase examples of work that can inspire reflection, further research, and also practice for readers such as practice-focused researchers in both HCI and design. Indeed, as well as consolidating the achievements of researchers, the contributions also represent concrete approaches to digital heritage innovation for social inclusion purposes. The book’s primary audience is academics, researchers, and students in the fields of cultural heritage, digital heritage, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and digital media, as well as practitioners in the cultural sector.

Author : Aleksandra Uzelac,Biserka Cvjetičanin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers and civilization
ISBN : 9536096463

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Digital Culture by Aleksandra Uzelac,Biserka Cvjetičanin Pdf

Author : Ruedi Widmer,Ines Kleesattel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 3035801150

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Scripted Culture by Ruedi Widmer,Ines Kleesattel Pdf

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges: the cultural public sphere is simultaneously exploding and imploding; the most essential objectives of the Enlightenment have been attained and yet are in danger; platforms and algorithms are vehicles both for self-determination and for heteronomy. Long-standing values from the Enlightenment values and new realities, the citizen and the consumer, rational systems of humans and machines alike are separate and yet at the same time inextricable from each other in this picture.