scholarly journals Linking to the past: an analysis of community digital heritage initiatives

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 564-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Tait ◽  
Marsaili MacLeod ◽  
David Beel ◽  
Claire Wallace ◽  
Chris Mellish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage

scholarly journals The heritage of Brexit: Roles of the past in the construction of political identities through social media

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Bonacchi ◽  
Mark Altaweel ◽  
Marta Krzyzanska
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Facebook Pages

This article assesses the role of the pre-modern past in the construction of political identities relating to the UK’s membership in the European Union by examining how materials and ideas from Iron Age to Early Medieval Britain and Europe were leveraged by those who discussed the topic of Brexit in over 1.4 million messages published in dedicated Facebook pages. Through a combination of data-intensive and qualitative investigations of textual data, we identify the ‘heritages’ invoked in support of pro- or anti-Brexit sentiments. We show how these heritages are centred around myths of origins, resistance and collapse that incorporate tensions and binary divisions . We highlight the strong influence of past expert practices in shaping such deeply entrenched dualistic thinking and reflect over the longue durée agency of heritage expertise. This is the first systematic study of public perceptions and experience of the past in contemporary society undertaken through digital heritage research fuelled by big data. As such, the article contributes novel methodological approaches and substantially advances theory in cultural heritage studies. It is also the first published work to analyse the role of heritage in the construction of political identities in relation to Brexit via extensive social research.

From Bricks to Clicks: How Digital Heritage Initiatives Create a New Ecosystem for Cultural Heritage and Collective Remembering

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110411
Author(s):  
Brant Burkey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Collective Remembering ◽  
Extended View ◽  
Depth Interviews

Cultural heritage institutions, such as museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies, are increasingly using digital heritage initiatives and social media platforms to connect and interact with their heritage communities. This creates a new memory ecosystem whereby heritage communities are invited to contribute, participate with, and share more of what they are interested in collectively remembering, rather than simply accepting the authoritative narratives of heritage institutions, which raises questions about what this means for cultural heritage writ large and whose versions of the past these heritage communities will hold onto as their digital inheritance. The primary contributions of this article are to provide both an extended view of the issue by building on several qualitative studies involving in-depth interviews and digital observations with eight cultural heritage communities over a five-year period and to better understand how their digital heritage initiatives are creating a new ecosystem for cultural heritage and collective remembering.

scholarly journals Presence of the Past: Digital Narrative of the Dennys Lascelles Concrete Wool Store; Geelong, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1395
Author(s):  
Md Mizanur Rashid ◽  
Chin Koi Khoo ◽  
Sofija Kaljevic ◽  
Surabhi Pancholi
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Digital Narrative ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Recreation of the past—of historical buildings—sits at the intersection of the spatio-temporal manifestation of cultural memories, socio-cultural meanings, values, and identity remolds, and refines the existing understanding and sense of place. Digital technologies have become a popular tool in recreation of the past by creating a new body of knowledge and historical discourse based on identifying the gaps within our written histories. Designers and policymakers around the world have been exploring various tools and technologies, such as diachronic modeling, yet there is a gap in evidence-based understanding regarding the actual functioning and success of applications for placemaking. This paper, therefore, sets out to scrutinize the role of digital technologies in facilitating digital placemaking. To do so, it investigates the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative in the revival of the lost architectural narrative of the Dennys Lascelles wool store, Geelong. The proposed paper aims to investigate the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative and storytelling as a means towards a digital placemaking framework. While exploring the new and unique capabilities provided by the digital narrative in capturing, simulating, and disseminating lost heritage, it will further imbue a sense of place by connecting the everyday city dweller.

scholarly journals Smart Heritage: Defining the Discourse

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1005-1015
Author(s):  
David Batchelor ◽  
Marc Aurel Schnabel ◽  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Heritage Discourse ◽  
First Time

The academic literature contains an increasing quantity of references to Smart Heritage. These references are at the intersection of the smart city and heritage disciplines and primarily within informative, interpretative, and governance applications. The literature indicates the future expansion of the Smart Heritage discourse into additional applications as researchers apply smart technology to more complex cultural environments. The Smart Heritage discourse signals an advancement in the literature beyond Digital Heritage and Virtual Heritage discourses as Smart Heritage pivots on the active curatorship of heritage experiences by automated and autonomous technologies, rather than technology as a passive digital tool for human-curated experiences. The article comprehensively reviews the emergent Smart Heritage discourse for the first time in the academic literature, and then offers a contemporary definition that considers the literature to date. The review and definition draw on literature across the contributing disciplines to understand the discourse’s development and current state. The article finds that Smart Heritage is an independent discourse that intertwines the autonomous and automatic capabilities and innovation of smart technologies with the contextual and subjective interpretation of the past. Smart Heritage is likely the future vanguard for research between the technology and heritage disciplines.

The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Treleani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Audiovisual Archives

Abstract Interfaces have partially replaced editors. They now administer and have industrialized the processes of content circulation. Web platforms mediatize cultural memory and one example of this is that of online audiovisual archives which are a paradigmatic case involving interfaces mediating our image of the past. Therefore, their role as an enunciative framework is clearly worthy of thought and study. We will thus use a semiotic approach based on the starting hypothesis that digital interfaces shape our belief systems through a discursive framing of content to which they give access. By analyzing two case studies, we will argue that the transparency of interfaces appears to recall the notion of “mechanical objectivity” and thus refashion the reliability of the archives. However, a final counter-analysis of a document read in the framework of an on-site consultation invites us to reshape our considerations and enlarge the perspective from semiotic visual analysis to include the social processes linked to the publication of digital heritage.

scholarly journals Una rappresentazione digitale del castello Eurialo per l’indagine storico-interpretativa

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Valenti ◽  
Sebastiano Giuliano ◽  
Emanuela Paternò
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Digital Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Virtual Reconstruction ◽  
The Common ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Surrounding Landscape

A Digital representation of Euryalus fortress: a historical interpretive studyIt is clear that concepts and cognitive processes aimed at putting forward fortified systems in their relation with the territory and with the surrounding landscape, establish inextricably interwoven “interests” and a consequent osmotic hysteresis between their emergence and disappearance into the deepest part of the earth. The logic behind the defensive structures of Euryalus fortress is particularly interesting. The fortress designed during the Greek period and located on the top of Epipolae hill, represented a strategic fortification for the city’s defence. Therefore, it is reasonable to think about a sequence of emerging or disappearing empty spaces; a semantic vacuum to be filled with logical-subjective interpretations pertaining to those who visit the place. The conceptual framework provides knowledge and documentation meant as indispensable supporting instruments to understand Dionysius I and Archimedes’ thoughts where the integration of people and environment forms the basis of the close iterative connection among nature, artifice and landscape. The research takes this direction implementing innovative technological systems trying to go beyond in order to achieve virtual reconstruction processes, even if partial, of the fortress. Survey, thus, can be applied as an instrument for the knowledge of historical heritage which once converted into digital heritage is a support for the reconstruction of lost ancient scenarios. Actually, the implementation of innovative systems allows an easy-to-use data viewing which supports the interpretive phase, the archiving, consultation and dissemination of survey products. In particular, the survey of the fortress with integrated methodologies (both instrumental and photogrammetric) provides not only a fundamental basis for the documentation of the fortress conditions but also provides a basis for the collection of reconstructive hypotheses formulated by researchers who have been involved with the structure so far. Interactions among archaeology, history, geomorphology and technology make history and a past renowned glory come alive with the common spirit of coming up to a strong synergy between the past and the future destiny of the place.

scholarly journals Presence of the Past: Digital Narrative of the Dennys Lascelles Concrete Wool Store; Geelong, Australia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Mizanur Rashid ◽  
Chin Koi Khoo ◽  
Sofija Kaljevic ◽  
Surabhi Pancholi
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Digital Narrative ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Re-creation of the past of historical buildings sits at the intersection of the spatio-temporal manifestation of cultural memories, socio-cultural meanings, values and identity re-moulds and refines the existing understanding and sense of place. Digital technologies have become a popular tool in re-creation of the past by creating a new body of knowledge and historical discourse based on identifying the gaps within our written histories. Designers and policymakers around the world have been exploring various tools and technologies such as diachronic modelling yet there is a gap in evidence-based understanding regarding the actual functioning and success of application for place making. This paper, therefore, sets out to scrutinise the role of digital technologies in facilitating digital place making. To do so, it investigates the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative in the revival of the lost architectural narrative of the Dennys Lascelles Wool Store, Geelong. The proposed paper aims to investigate the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative and story-telling as a means towards digital place making framework. While exploring the new and unique capabilities provided by the digital narrative in capturing, simulating and disseminating ‘lost’ heritage it will further imbue a sense of place by connecting the everyday city dweller.

scholarly journals Nuts and bolts of digital heritage. Bringing the past into the virtual present

1970 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Gowlland ◽  
Gro Ween
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tools ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Political Dimensions

In this introductory essay to the special issue, we identify key common themes that are developed in the article contributions. We start by attending to the qualities of what we call “digital heritage ecosystems”, and we reflect on the varied affordances that digital tools and platforms offer. We go on to address the complex political dimensions of digital heritage, and how structures of authority relating to heritage are constructed and can be destabilised by the digital. Finally, we take a look at what goes on behind the scenes of digital heritage initiatives, what is involved in setting up digital platforms and keeping the systems running. This involves bringing to light the materiality of the digital, what it implies in terms of materials, costs and labour. We put forward these perspectives as a wayof domesticating the digital and dispelling some of its mystery to make it moreadapted to the needs of heritage work.

scholarly journals A Roadmap to Applied Digital Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Laura K Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
3D Imaging ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
New Research

The recent “digital turn” in archaeology has driven methodological advances and opened new research avenues, with wide ranging impacts at multiple scales. The proliferation of methods such as 3D imaging, remote sensing, laser scanning and photogrammetry has led to the datafication of archaeology [Caraher 2016: 467, Mayer-Schönberger et al. 2013: 73]. This process is most evident in research on digital surveying, data visualization, digital archiving, mapping, and image processing, which prioritize the creation and manipulation of large digital datasets. These research avenues often generate more intellectual traffic than “slow archaeology” routes [Caraher 2016], which adopt a reflexive approach to knowledge production, embrace the inherent complexity of digital datasets, emphasize craft modes of archaeological documentation [Perry 2015], and “highlight the value of small and properly contextualized data” [Kansa 2016: 466]. Confronting the growing tension between big data and slow archaeology will be an iterative process. It will evolve as researchers and other stakeholder groups assess the value of digital approaches to preserving, communicating, and interpreting the past as it relates to the present. This special issue of Studies in Digital Heritage is the outcome of a symposium at the 2018 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference in Washington, D.C., entitled “Digital Heritage Technologies, Applications, and Impacts.” The articles within contribute to this dialogue by critically assessing the challenges and successes of recent digital heritage projects in museums, teaching and fieldwork contexts.

scholarly journals Exhibiting Digital Heritage: The Curation of Un-Mediated Experiences in Mediated Environments, in D. Holzer & W. Nakapan (eds.)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rushton ◽  
Marc Aurel Schnabel
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Heritage Building ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Barrier Free

The aim of this paper is to examine how a museum exhibition can allow barrier-free access and engagement of visitors. This paper will discuss Immersive Legacies, an exhibition that presented the digital documentation and virtual representations of a significant heritage building, both physically and in virtual reality. Through the examination of the exhibition, Immersive Legacies and its broader museological context, this paper will discuss the emergence of these technologies in museums and its relation to the Anthropocene epoch. In an age of rapid advancement and destruction, it becomes essential to preserve heritage sites, architecture and cultural objects. Furthermore, connection and communication were, and continue to be facilitated by the technologies that began in the Anthropocene epoch. As a result of this era, heritage can be experienced anytime and anywhere, although it remains vital for citizens to have the opportunity to experience it in museums. In turn, this paper will examine how these technologies can be to help citizens understand and engage with heritage and the past in museums - now and in the future.

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