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Managing Digital Cultural Objects

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This edited collection explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects.
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This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving image.

Bringing together chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book provides an overview of the theoretical and academic aspects of digital cultural documentation and considers both technical and strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management and sustainability.

Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval draws from disciplines including information retrieval, library and information science (LIS), digital preservation, digital humanities, cultural theory, digital media studies and art history. It’s argued that this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach is both necessary and useful in the age of the ubiquitous and mobile Web.

Key topics covered include:

  • Managing, searching and finding digital cultural objects
  • Data modelling for analysis, discovery and retrieval
  • Social media data as a historical source
  • Visual digital humanities
  • Digital preservation of audio content
  • Searching and creating affinities in web music collections
  • Film retrieval on the web.

Readership: The book will provide inspiration for students seeking to develop creative and innovative research projects at Masters and PhD levels and will be essential reading for those studying digital cultural object management as well as practitioners in the field.

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Price: £59.95
Pages: 256
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Imprint: Facet Publishing
Publication Date: 31 August 2016
ISBN: 9781783301539
Format: eBook
BISACs:

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources, Archiving, preservation and digitization, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries, Information retrieval and access, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, Museology and heritage studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society
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'This volume brings together a range of experts within the field of digital preservation in order to address the topic of analysis, discovery and retrieval of cultural objects. It beautifully draws upon the theoretical and academic aspects of digital culture and works to balance this focus with contributions from practitioners working within the digital preservation sector...All in all, a useful volume for anyone working with digital cultural objects and for anyone looking for that inspiration for research within their studies.'

Introduction - Pauline Rafferty and Allen Foster Part 1: Analysis and retrieval of digital cultural objects 1. Managing, searching and finding digital cultural objects: putting it in context - Pauline Rafferty 2. Data modelling for analysis, discovery and retrieval - Sarah Higgins 3. The digital traces of user-generated content: how social media data may become the historical sources of the future - Katrin Weller Part 2: Digitization projects in libraries, archives and museums: case-studies 4. Visual digital humanities: using image data to derive approximate metadata - H. M. Dee, L. M. Hughes, G. L. Roderick and A. D. Brown 5. Managing and preserving digital collections at the british library - Maureen Pennock and Michael Day 6. Digital preservation of audio content - Will Prentice Part 3: Social networking and digital cultural objects 7. Photos: Flickr, Facebook and other social networking sites - Corinne Jorgensen 8. Searching and creating affinities in a web music collections - Nicola Orio 9. Film retrieval on the web: sharing, naming, access and discovery - Katherine La Barre and Rosa Ines de Novais Cordeiro