Approaches to 'place': A study exploring how New Zealand's digital collections conceptualise our social understanding of space

10.26686/wgtn.17006719.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Flora Feltham

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Research Problem ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Web Content ◽

Digital Collections ◽

Geospatial Technology ◽

Digital Heritage ◽

Heritage Collections

<p>Research problem: The concept of ‘place’ has a clear presence in New Zealand’s digital heritage collections. However, some theorists suggest there is gap between place as a concept relevant to cultural heritage concerns and place as represented by digital technology. This research explores how geospatial and digital technology deployed in New Zealand’s digital collections engage with and conceptualise qualities usually associated with place: social bonds, emotional attachment and subjectivity. Methodology: This two-stage, mixed-methods study has a qualitative weighting. Web Content analysis (WebCA) gathered data from digital collections that demonstrate place inclusive features. An anonymous survey gathered opinions from practitioners who create place-inclusive digital collections. Descriptive statistics developed during quantitative analysis triangulated findings developed during thematic qualitative analysis. Results: New Zealand’s digital collections generate a sense-of-place using strategies that mimic subjective and experience-based understanding of the world. Some collections also engage with place in its ‘common-sense wrapper’ by using the deploying the place in a metadata context or as an overarching thematic structure. New Zealand’s cultural heritage practitioners are very practice-oriented in their consideration of place, and place-inclusive collections are most often impacted by resourcing issues. Implications: This project contributes to the growing ‘body of sustained critical thinking’ focusing on the implications of digital technology for cultural heritage concerns. It suggests place has considerable value and multiple functions within digital heritage collections. When conducting projects using geospatial technology, heritage practitioners can consider supplementing geospatial technology with user-contribution features, content variety, and an emphasis on storytelling to effectively reflect the subjective components of place.</p>

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Harmonized Spaces, Dissonant Objects, Inventing Europe? Mobilizing Digital Heritage

Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research ◽

10.3384/cu.2000.1525.113295 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 295-315

Author(s):

Alexander Badenoch

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

The European Union ◽

Digital Heritage ◽

European Citizenship ◽

History Of ◽

Online Availability ◽

Smooth Space ◽

Web Platform ◽

Heritage Collections

Technology, particularly digitization and the online availability of cultural heritage collections, provides new possibilities for creating new forms of ’European cultural heritage’. This essay analyzes the emerging sphere of European digital heritage as a project of technological harmonization. Drawing on Andrew Barry’s concepts of technological zones, it examines the various ways in which agency and European citizenship are being reconfigured around cultural heritage. It explores the “Europeanization” of digital heritage in three areas. In the first section, it analyzes the recent agenda for digital heritage of the European Union as a harmonizing project to create a smooth space of cultural heritage. In the next sections, the development of a harmonized virtual exhibit on the history of technology in Europe forms a case study to explore processes of harmonization at the level of the web platform, and in the aesthetics of digitized objects. It argues that rather than seeking to elide the points of unevenness and ’dissonance’ that emerge in harmonization processes, we should instead look for ways to embrace them as points of dialogue and discovery.

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Building Digital Heritage with Teamwork Empowerment

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v24i3.3374 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 130 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jyi-Shane Liu ◽

Mu-Hsi Tseng ◽

Tze-Kai Huang

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Coverage Problem ◽

Time And Space ◽

Standard Practice ◽

Digital Heritage ◽

Central Notion ◽

Over Time

<span>Building digital heritage requires substantial resources in materials, expertise, tools, and cost. Government and university projects are limited in the time and space they can devote to covering even a small part of the world’s heritage. The preservation coverage problem is most serious in areas where sources of intellectual and cultural heritage may diminish or disappear over time. A central notion that helps resolve these issues is to make it easier for digital technology to reach sources of valuable heritage. The authors propose an approach to exploit noninstitutional resources for wider participation and inclusion in digital-heritage endeavors. The approach attempts to copy the techniques of institutional digital-heritage work while bringing together noninstitutional resources and providing standard practice.</span>

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The Role of Museums in a Digital World – Attracting Youth and Overcoming COVID19 Obstacles

Cultural Management Science and Education ◽

10.30819/cmse.5-1.04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 59-68

Author(s):

Jelena Novakovic

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

Digital Collections ◽

The Public ◽

Digital World ◽

The World ◽

Museum Experience ◽

Final Proof

In the world of digital technology, overwhelmed with information and content, digitalization is often perceived as a process of alienation. This article will challenge that perception and demonstrate that digital museums actually present a unique opportunity to develop interest in art and attracting people not only to art in general but to on-site cultural institutions as well. Digital museums can, among other roles, assume the role of interpreting cultural heritage, but are also the best way to attract a young au-dience to art. This article examines the opportunities provided by digital technology for museums in terms of communication and dissemination of knowledge. The particular emphasis will be on the use of digital collections as well as on connecting and interacting with the public, particularly with a young au-dience. If there was any doubt about the importance and influence of digital museums, the COVID-19 pandemic was a final proof that digital museums have a much greater value than is generally admitted, and that they have become an indispensable part of the overall museum experience in all museums that have been able to develop them as a part of overall museum strategy.

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Total Recall: How Cultural Heritage Communities Use Digital Initiatives and Platforms for Collective Remembering

Journal of Creative Communications ◽

10.1177/0973258619868045 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 235-253

Author(s):

Brant Burkey

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Age ◽

Total Recall ◽

Digital Collections ◽

Digital Heritage ◽

Collective Remembering ◽

Media Applications ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Research Collective

This article argues that digital heritage initiatives, where cultural heritage institutions offer more interactive possibilities with their digital collections through multimodal platforms and social media applications, provide new territory for memory scholars to explore how heritage communities collectively remember in the digital age. Through in-depth interviews and participant observations of practitioners and participants from three cultural heritage institutions, the findings show that digital heritage initiatives offer new circumstances and venues to observe, interpret, and research collective remembering, as well as illustrate how heritage communities can use these multimodal platforms as means for sharing collective remembrance.

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Collections as data: Implications for enclosure

College & Research Libraries News ◽

10.5860/crln.79.6.296 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 79 (6) ◽

pp. 296 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas G. Padilla

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Collections ◽

Physical Objects ◽

Heritage Collections

In recent years a growing amount of interest has been dedicated to collections as data. A collections as data paradigm seeks to foster an expanded set of research, pedagogical, and artistic potential predicated on the computational use of cultural heritage collections. Collections as data raises the question of what it might mean to treat digitized and born digital collections as data rather than simple surrogates of physical objects or static representations of digital experience.

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Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Specifications for location, construction and modification of buildings or rooms intended for the storage or use of heritage collections

10.3403/30324475u ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Heritage Collections

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Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (NEH)

Federal Grants & Contracts ◽

10.1002/fgc.31418 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 1-1

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Heritage Collections

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A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Twitter by Emergency Medicine Residency Programs

Journal of Graduate Medical Education ◽

10.4300/jgme-d-16-00716.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 51-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

David Diller ◽

Lalena M. Yarris

Keyword(s):

Emergency Medicine ◽

Medical Education ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Instructional Tool ◽

Residency Programs ◽

The Public ◽

Twitter Account ◽

E Mail

ABSTRACT Background Twitter is increasingly recognized as an instructional tool by the emergency medicine (EM) community. In 2012, the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) recommended that EM residency programs' Twitter accounts be managed solely by faculty. To date, little has been published regarding the patterns of Twitter use by EM residency programs. Objective We analyzed current patterns in Twitter use among EM residency programs with accounts and assessed conformance with CORD recommendations. Methods In this mixed methods study, a 6-question, anonymous survey was distributed via e-mail using SurveyMonkey. In addition, a Twitter-based search was conducted, and the public profiles of EM residency programs' Twitter accounts were analyzed. We calculated descriptive statistics and performed a qualitative analysis on the data. Results Of 168 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education–accredited EM programs, 88 programs (52%) responded. Of those programs, 58% (51 of 88) reported having a program-level Twitter account. Residents served as content managers for those accounts in the majority of survey respondents (61%, 28 of 46). Most programs did not publicly disclose the identity or position of their Twitter content manager. We found a wide variety of applications for Twitter, with EM programs most frequently using Twitter for educational and promotional purposes. There is significant variability in the numbers of followers for EM programs' Twitter accounts. Conclusions Applications and usage among EM residency programs are varied, and are frequently not consistent with current CORD recommendations.

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