TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parry,Ross
TI  - Museums in a digital age
T2  - Leicester readers in museum studies
SN  - 0415402611
AV  - AM7 .M88524 2010
U1  - 069.0285 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Museums
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Digitization
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Digital preservation
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Collection management
KW  - Curatorship
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The Practice of Digital Heritage and the Heritage of Digital Practice; Ross Parry --; Part 1; Information: Data, Structure and Meaning --; Introduction to Part One; Ross Parry --; 2; A Brief History of Museum Computerization; David Williams --; 3; The Changing Role of Information Professionals in Museums; Andrew Roberts --; 4; What is Information in the Museum Context?; Elizabeth Orna, Charles Pettitt --; 5; The World of (Almost) Unique Objects; Robert Chenhall, David Vance --; 6; Standards for Networked Cultural Heritage; David Bearman --; 7; Database as Symbolic Form; Lev Manovich --; 8; The Museum as Information Utility; George F. MacDonald MacDonald, George F. And Stephen Alsford --; 9; Museum Collections, Documentation and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms; Fiona Cameron --; 10; Semantic Dissonance: do we need (and do we understand) the semantic web?; Ross Parry, Nick Poole, Jon Pratty --; 11; Building a Universal Digital Memory; Pierre Levy --; Part 2; Space: Visits, Virtuality and Distance --; Introduction to Part Two; Ross Parry --; 12; On the Origins of the Virtual Museum; Erkki Huhtamo --; 13; From Malraux's Imaginary Museum to the Virtual Museum; Antonio M. Battro --; 14; Virtual Spaces and Museums; Andrea Bandelli --; 15; The Virtual Visit: towards a new concept for the electronic science centre; Roland Jackson --; 16; Empowering the Remote Visitor: supporting socialmuseum experiences among local and remote visitors; Areti Galani, Matthew Chalmers --; 17; Museums Outside Walls: mobile phones and the museum in the everyday; Konstantinos Arvanitis --; Part 3; Access: Ability, Usability and Connectivity --; Introduction to Part Three; Ross Parry --; 18; Access to Digital Heritage in Africa: bridging the digital divide; Lorna Abungu --; 19; My Dream of an Accessible Web Culture for Disabled People; Kevin Carey --; 20; My Dream of an Accessible Web Culture for Disabled People: a re-evaluation; Kevin Carey --; 21; Implementing a Holistic Approach to E-Learning Accessibility; Brian Kelly, Lawrie Phipps, Caro Howell --; 22; Usability Evaluation for Museum Websites; Daniel Cunliffe, Efmorphia Kritou, Douglas Tudhope --; 23; Culture as a Driver of Innovation; Ranjit Makkuni --; Part 4; Interpretation: Communication, Interactivity and Learning --; Introduction to Part Four; Ross Parry --; 24; The Web and the Unassailable Voice; Peter Walsh --; 25; When the Object is Digital: properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning; Olivia C. Frost --; 26; Learning by Doing and Learning Through Play: an exploration of interactivity in virtual environments for children; Maria Roussou --; 27; Interactivity and Collaboration: new forms of participation in museums, galleries and science centres; Christian Heath, Dirk Vom Lehn Vom Lehn, Dirk --; 28; Visitors' Use of Computer Exhibits: findings from five gruelling years of watching visitors getting it wrong; Ben Gammon --; Part 5; Object: Authenticity, Authority and Trust --; Introduction to Part Five; Ross Parry --; 29; Museums and Virtuality; Klaus Muller --; 30; When All You've Got is 'The Real Thing': museums and authenticity in the networked world; Jennifer Trant --; 31; Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital Environment: an exploratory analysis of the central role of trust; Clifford Lynch --; 32; Why Museums Matter; Marc Pachter --; 33; Defining the Problem of Our Vanishing Memory: background, current status, models for resolution; Peter Lyman, Howard Besser --; 34; Curating New Media; Matthew Gansallo --; Part 6; Delivery: Production, Evaluation and Sustainability --; Introduction to Part Six; Ross Parry --; 35; Managing New Technology Projects in Museums and Galleries; Matthew Stiff --; 36; Rationale for Digitization and Preservation; Paul Conway --; 37; 'speaking for Themselves': new media and 'Making the Modern World'; Frank Colson, Jean Colson --; 38; The Evaluation of Museum Multim edia Applications: lessons from research; Maria Economou --; 39; A Survey on Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns; Diane M. Zorich --; Part 7; Futures: Priorities, Approaches and Aspirations --; Introduction to Part Seven; Ross Parry --; 40; Making the Total Museum Possible; Tomislav Sola --; 41; Museums in the Information Era: cultural connectors of time and space; Manuel Castells --; 42; The Shape of Things to Come: museums in the technological landscape; Simon J. Knell --; 43; Digital Heritage and the Rise of Theory in Museum Computing; Ross Parry
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