Museums in a Digital Age Parry Ross
Museums in a Digital Age Parry Ross The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. They collect digital as well as material things. Today museums are…
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Museums in a Digital Age Parry Ross
The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. They collect digital as well as material things. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections.
And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.However, 'digital heritage' (as an area of practice and as a subject of study) does not exist in one single place. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. Its evidence base is complex, diverse and distributed, and its content is available through multiple channels, on varied media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing.It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address.
With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research,