Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Luigina Ciolfi (editor), Areti Damala (editor), Eva Hornecker (editor), Monika Lechner (editor), Laura Maye (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cultural heritage communities of interest have increasingly expanded from cultural heritage professionals to volunteers, special interest groups and independent citizen-led initiative groups. Digital technology has also increasingly impacted cultural heritage by affording novel experiences of it – it features in a number of activities for all the aforementioned groups, as well as acting as support for visitors to cultural heritage centres.

With different degrees of formality and training, these communities are increasingly defining and taking ownership of what is of value to them, thus reconfiguring the care, communication, interpretation and validation of heritage. Digital technology has played a crucial role in this transformative process.

In a fully international context, cultural heritage practitioners, community champions and academics from different fields of study have contributed to this book. Each chapter brings to the fore the multiple relationships between heritage, communities and technologies as a focus of study and reflection in an inclusive way. Contributions touch upon present and future opportunities for technology, as well as participatory design processes with different stakeholders.

This book brings together ideas from different disciplines, cultures, methods and goals, to inspire scholars and practitioners involved in community heritage projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction
The complex interweaving of heritage, communities and technology
Chapters overview
Disentangling communities, technologies and cultural heritage
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 1 Archaeological remote sensing: Some community engagement in Ireland
Introduction
Archaeological remote sensing techniques
Remote sensing and a community museum
Remote sensing by local heritage groups
Remote sensing in schools
Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 2 Online maker communities: Craft and new spaces of engagement with cultural heritage
Introduction
Craft, communities and the ethos of making
Virtual guilds of knitters, weavers and crocheters
Craft and the space of engagement in the cultural heritage institution
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 3 The Limerick dance halls project: The charm of discreet technology
Introduction
Context
Methodology
The Stella exhibition
The charm of discreet technology
Discussion and future work
Acknowledgments
Note
References
Chapter 4 Towards user engagement models for citizen science: Initiatives in the digital cultural heritage domain
Introduction
User activities in citizen science and crowdsourcing
Pilot on archaeology in rural Ireland
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 5 Challenges in designing cultural heritage crowdsourcing: Tools with indigenous communities
Introduction
Project background
IKDC evaluation and data collection session
Further system developments
Challenges and lessons learned
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 6 How to get small museums involved in digital innovation: A design-inclusive research approach
Introduction
The small museum situation
A design-inclusive experience research approach: The Mauritshuis
Design-inclusive research approach for small museums
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Emotional connections with the past: Exploring engagement with historical images from an online museum collection
Introduction
Designing interaction for museum collections
Tools for multi-user communities
Making sense in interactive environments
Exploratory studies
Discussion
Future directions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Artcasting, mobilities,and inventiveness: Engaging with new approaches to arts evaluation
Introduction: artist rooms, communities and technology
Introducing Artcasting
Issues with arts evaluation
Digital technology and “inventive problem-making”
Re-imagining evaluation through artcasting
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9 Challenging political agendas through indigenous media: Hawai’i and the promotion and protection of cultural heritage
Introduction
Significant precursors to Native Hawaiian activism
Historical issues
Challenges of information transmission
Technological change comes to Hawai’i
Technology use by Hawaiian movements
Mauna Kea and beyond
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 10 War at your doorstep: Supporting communities discovering their local history via interactive technology
Introduction
The role of a historical museum in contemporary society
Case studies of interactive technology for history storytelling
The value of a bespoke interaction
The crucial role of content
Embodied experience and physical engagement
The social experience of sharing the visit
The value of a souvenir to “keep in touch”
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Index