| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
IResearch series
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iResearch series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Managing digital cultural heritage information / Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven -- Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions) / Chris Alen Sula -- Management of cultural heritage information : policies and practices / Gobinda Chowdhury -- Cultural heritage information : artefacts and digitization technologies / Melissa Terras -- Metadata in cultural contexts : from manga to digital archives in a linked open data environment / Shigeo Sugimoto, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Tetsuya Mihara, and Tsunagu Honma -- Managing cultural heritage : information systems architecture / Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman -- Cultural heritage information : users and usability / Sudatta Chowdhury -- A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems / Juliane Stiller and Vivien Petras -- Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries / Ali Shiri -- Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials : the PATHS perspective / Paul Clough, Paula Goodale, Mark Hall and Mark Stevenson -- Cultural heritage information services : sustainability issues / Gobinda Chowdhury. |
| Summary |
"Recent developments in the ICT, web and mobile technologies have significantly boosted research and development activities aimed at the creation and management of digital cultural heritage resources. Managing digital cultural heritage involves a number of challenges ranging from the digitization of cultural heritage objects and artefacts to various knowledge organization challenges that include metadata, indexing and retrieval, and various user and social challenges such as information seeking and retrieval in the context of cultural heritage, digital divide and social inclusion, social and legal policy issues, and moreover long term access and sustainability issues . Beginning with an overview of different information management issues and challenges associated with cultural heritage information, this book provides an account of research in digital cultural heritage focusing particularly on the knowledge organization, access, users and usability issues digital cultural heritage information systems and services."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Digital preservation.
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Digital preservation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ruthven, Ian, 1968- editor.
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Chowdhury, G. G. (Gobinda G.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781783300662 (OCoLC)894201273 |
| ISBN |
1783300663 (electronic book) |
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9781783300662 (electronic book) |
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9781856049306 |
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1856049302 |
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