Cultural Heritage Information

Access and management

Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types, their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services.Cultural Heritage Information, the first book in the peer-reviewed i-Research series, contains eleven chapters that have been contributed by seventeen leading academics from six countries. The book begins with an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of the topic of digital cultural heritage information with the subsequent chapters addressing specific issues and research activities in this topic. The ordering of the chapters moves from scene setting on policies and infrastructures, through considerations of interaction, access and objects, through to concrete system implementations. The book concludes by looking forward to issues around sustainability, in the widest sense, that are necessary to think about in order to maximize the availability and longevity of our digital cultural heritage.

• Reihe: Facet Publishing
• ISBN: 9781783302949
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2017
• Größe: 240 x 16 mm
• Verlag: Facet Publishing - IPSUK
• Herausgegeben von: Ian Ruthven, G. G. Chowdhury