Digital archives and collections creating online access to cultural heritage

"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and arc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müller, Katja
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn 2021, 2021
Series:Anthropology of media
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing digital archives : power, access and new order
  • Deciding for digital archives improvement through collection management systems
  • Community-based digital archives : programming alternatives
  • Creating and curating digital archives : horizontal and vertical structures
  • Using digital archives : online encounters, stories of impact and postcolonial agendas
  • Digital archives' objects : law and tangibility
  • Conclusion. Cultural production in the present with reference to the past and directed at the future
  • Includes bibliographical references and index