Digitization of Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadim Akhtar Khan ◽  
S. M. Shafi ◽  
Humma Ahangar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Over Time

The potential of digital technologies in safeguarding and preserving valuable assets have been established over time, predominantly in preserving our increasingly threatened heritage. Technological advancements in digitization and preservation aspects in the form of more sophisticated digitization gadgets have resulted in the practical implications of many digital preservation initiatives. The article discusses the concept of cultural heritage and need of digital preservation for managing and distributing cultural heritage collections through cooperative endeavors. It highlights the importance of incorporating technological advancements for managing effective and long-term cultural preservation projects. It points out various challenges concerning digital preservation initiatives for cultural heritage including financial, technical, policy guidelines, legal aspects and metadata concerns. The article further discusses some important digital preservation projects for managing Cultural Heritage and lists detailed features under each initiative for addressing various challenges.

scholarly journals Digital Preservation at the British Library

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (84) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Woodyard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
British Library ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Heritage Collections

Ensuring the comprehensive coverage, recording and preservation of the UK national published output is one of the British Library's key responsibilities. A significant proportion of the Library's cultural heritage collections will be in digital formats and require long term access, so the Library has to be at the forefront of national and international efforts to develop digital preservation. The Library is addressing digital preservation by establishing policy, negotiating and legally obtaining the rights to preserve and provide access digital publications. It is participating in research and test-bed projects, and working collaboratively in research and distributed archiving with other national and international organisations with similar interests.

Open source software as a mature library system in Armenia

Infolib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Anna Chulyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Efficient Organization ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
High Level

The article touches upon the importance of long-term digital preservation of Armenian cultural heritage through creation of digital repositories using Open-Source Software in Armenian libraries. The research highlights the advantages of Open-Source Software in context of providing free access to digital materials, as well as its high level of functionality in order to empower libraries with new technologies for more efficient organization and dissemination of information.

scholarly journals The use of metadata systems for the preservation of digital records in cultural heritage institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Tlou Maggie Masenya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
South African ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Global Access ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Many studies concur that most of the world’s heritage resources, including digital records, are highly vulnerable to loss, and some cannot be recovered due to neglect or mismanagement. Strategies are thus needed to ensure long-term preservation and global access to digital records of enduring value. Metadata systems have been regarded as a suitable strategy to support digital preservation processes and prevent digital records loss within cultural heritage institutions. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the adoption of metadata systems in cultural heritage institutions in South Africa. This study utilised literature review to critically examine the use of metadata systems for the preservation of digital records in cultural heritage institutions. Although various preservation systems and strategies are being developed to enable description, discovery and delivery of digital records, the findings revealed that South African cultural heritage institutions’ level of metadata system adoption is low. This is due to lack of awareness about metadata schemas and standards, lack of technical expertise, inadequate funding and lack of technological infrastructure. Several recommendations are made to enhance preservation of digital records, including increasing awareness and the implementation of metadata systems, schemas and policies.

scholarly journals Netnography and design thinking: development and illustration in the vegan food industry

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ashman ◽  
Anthony Patterson ◽  
Robert V. Kozinets
Keyword(s):  
Food Industry ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time

Purpose This paper aims to strengthen the process of design thinking by aligning it with netnography, specifically auto-netnography, which this paper asserts is particularly suited to the task of studying and enriching the actions of “designerly types” who seek to fashion monetisable businesses. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducts an auto-netnography with a structure divined from established design thinking theory – that of empathising, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing – to afford an understanding of how a popular health food influencer designs a successful vegan restaurant. Findings This paper illustrates the empathetic relationship between a long-term audience member and an entrepreneur/designer/marketer. The intimate cultural analysis reveals the nature of their symbiotic entwinement. In a way that few other methods could, the method shows how this sense of reciprocity, deepens over time. Research limitations/implications Conducting an auto-netnography is a prolonged and difficult task. Nonetheless, by revealing the rituals, expectations, roles and routines of content creators, designers and followers, this paper illustrates exciting possibilities for the enactment and development of design thinking in the marketing field. Practical implications Designerly types such as marketers and content creators should closely study, listen to and interact with consumers by using a similarly staged process that draws equally from design thinking and auto-netnography. Originality/value Prior to this study, existing research has not previously linked design thinking with either netnographic or auto-netnographic research.

Strategies for Digitalization in Manufacturing Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joakim Björkdahl
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Agile Organization ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Current Business

This article discusses the digitalization efforts of 26 leading manufacturing firms, the difficulties encountered, and how they can be handled. It shows that many firms are far from ready to benefit from digitalization and are mainly focused on achieving greater efficiency through digitalization rather than pursuing a growth agenda. This imbalance is because of the difficulties related to identifying profitable configurations of competencies, assets, and data generated from digital technologies, orchestrating them, and exploiting them in an agile organization. Practical implications of digitalization are highlighted, specifically in terms of strategies for supporting the current business and embracing long-term digital transformation.

Archiving the Web – some legal aspects

2003 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka Kavćić‐Ćolić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Electronic Publications ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
The Web

Technological developments have changed the concepts of publication, reproduction and distribution. However, legislation, and in particular the Legal Deposit Law has not adjusted to these changes – it is very restrictive in the sense of protecting the rights of authors of electronic publications. National libraries and national archival institutions, being aware of their important role in preserving the written and spoken cultural heritage, try to find different legal ways to live up to these responsibilities. This paper presents some legal aspects of archiving Web pages, examines the harvesting of Web pages, provision of public access to pages, and their long‐term preservation.

Toward Smart Heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Stefano Brusaporci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Real Dimension ◽  
Mixed Heritage ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Production Sharing ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Digital Sphere

The concept of cultural heritage has evolved over time. In relation to a context where digital technologies and ICT are changing our everyday lives and the way to visualize, experience, and think, the growth of digital heritage poses new issues in the conceptual and operative relationship with real contents. The chapter reflects on the concept of tangible heritage, presents issues in heritage digitalization, and highlights the new relationships that the real dimension and the digital sphere of heritage establish, according to advanced frontiers of mixed heritage. Pressing topics are the matters of interpretation and presentation of heritage, the transparency of digital communication, and the participation of people in cultural content through digital content production, sharing, re-elaboration.

Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-First Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Harvey ◽  
Martha Mahard
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Digital Or

AbstractInformation technology has had a profound effect on the preservation landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century, blurring the traditional boundaries separating cultural heritage institutions and demanding new skills and approaches to the management of cultural assets, whether digital or analog. Concepts around which the core principles of preservation were built have been challenged and are shifting to accommodate new practices and standards. Changes in our approach to longevity, choice, quality, integrity, and access are being driven by digital technologies. A new set of principles, applicable to all materials, whether digital or not, are proposed. In the context and aims of preservation as we understand it today, these principles are a framework for the management of our cultural heritage collections.

Digital preservation ingest can be a “CINCH”

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rudersdorf
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Assessment Development ◽  
State Library ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Digital Assets

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Capture, Ingest, and Checksum” (CINCH) tool, developed by the State Library of North Carolina with funding from a 2011 IMLS Sparks! Ignition grant.Design/methodology/approachThis article describes the needs assessment, development, and use cases for the CINCH tool in the digital preservation community. A special emphasis is put on the possible wider adoption of the tool for small and mid‐sized institutions and the call for community building around it.FindingsCINCH does not relate directly to storage or access, but it does address the need for appropriately formatted SIPs to ensure the fixity, authenticity, and long‐term manageability of our digital assets. As a broadly accessible tool with generalized purpose, its greatest impact will be on small and mid‐sized institutions and organizations that do not now have access to an application of this nature.Research limitationsCINCH 2.0 planning is already underway. Improving the quality and range of metadata, exploring DRM restrictions, and expanding the types of harvestable files are at the top of the development list.Practical implicationsCINCH will create a Submission Information Package (SIP) to certify that the files ingested are ready for whatever preservation action the institution is capable of performing on them.Originality/valueCINCH was developed by the State Library of North Carolina and is the only tool of its kind available to the digital preservation community.

scholarly journals One Good Turn Deserves Another: Antecedents of Online Karaoke Paid Gift-Sending from Social Exchange Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2515-2531
Author(s):  
Susan (Sixue) Jia ◽  
Banggang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
One Year ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time

Understanding the dynamics of online karaoke virtual gift sending helps maximize its utility for all participants, including viewers, broadcasters, and platforms. However, extant paid gift-sending studies lack an integrated theoretical explanation of its incentives as well as practical implications that can facilitate the quantifiable implementation of service improvement. This study has successfully uncovered the motivation of paid gift-sending in an online karaoke context from a social exchange perspective using social exchange theory. By observing the activities of 11,640 online karaoke users over one year, it was discovered that their gift-sending behaviors adhere to the patterns of more-follower-more-gift-sending and receive-more-send-more. Moreover, such patterns are more pronounced for collaborative users and are accentuated over time. Theoretically, this study extends the scope of social commerce studies from B2C to C2C scenarios with more complicated interpersonal dynamics. Meanwhile, managers are advised to encourage following, stimulate collaboration, inject additional virtual gifts into the “market”, and retain their customers to generate long-term profits.

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