Stories of Impact: The Role of Narrative in Understanding the Value and Impact of Digital Collections.
Marsh, D. E.; Punzalan, R. L.; Leopold, R.; Butler, B.; and Petrozzi, M.
Archival Science, 16(4): 327–372. 2016.
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@article{marsh_stories_2016,
title = {Stories of {Impact}: {The} {Role} of {Narrative} in {Understanding} the {Value} and {Impact} of {Digital} {Collections}},
volume = {16},
issn = {1389-0166, 1573-7519},
shorttitle = {Stories of impact},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10502-015-9253-5},
doi = {10.1007/s10502-015-9253-5},
abstract = {Cultural heritage institutions leverage digitization to fulfill their mission to preserve, represent, and provide access to collections under their care. Despite their common interest in documenting the progress of digitization and online access, the library, archives, and museums (LAM) sector lacks a conceptual framework for assessing and demonstrating the impact of digitized ethnographic collections. Reporting the findings of a yearlong interdisciplinary study, this article underscores the importance of storytelling in articulating the value and impact of digitized ethnographic collections held in cultural heritage institutions. We begin with an overview of the literature on the assessment and describe the methods we employed in our study. Next, we identify and discuss the different ways that stories and storytelling are strategically mobilized in conversations about the impact of digitization. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our findings for cultural heritage practice and collection development.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2020-12-16},
journal = {Archival Science},
author = {Marsh, Diana E. and Punzalan, Ricardo L. and Leopold, Robert and Butler, Brian and Petrozzi, Massimo},
year = {2016},
pages = {327--372},
}
Cultural heritage institutions leverage digitization to fulfill their mission to preserve, represent, and provide access to collections under their care. Despite their common interest in documenting the progress of digitization and online access, the library, archives, and museums (LAM) sector lacks a conceptual framework for assessing and demonstrating the impact of digitized ethnographic collections. Reporting the findings of a yearlong interdisciplinary study, this article underscores the importance of storytelling in articulating the value and impact of digitized ethnographic collections held in cultural heritage institutions. We begin with an overview of the literature on the assessment and describe the methods we employed in our study. Next, we identify and discuss the different ways that stories and storytelling are strategically mobilized in conversations about the impact of digitization. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our findings for cultural heritage practice and collection development.
Gugelmann Galaxy: An Unexpected Journey through a collection of Schweizer Kleinmeister.
Bernhard, M.
\textlessp\textgreaterInternational Journal for Digital Art History, No 2: Year: 2015\textless/p\textgreater. 2016.
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@article{bernhard_gugelmann_2016,
title = {Gugelmann {Galaxy}: {An} {Unexpected} {Journey} through a collection of {Schweizer} {Kleinmeister}},
volume = {No 2},
shorttitle = {Gugelmann {Galaxy}},
url = {http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dah/article/view/23250},
doi = {10.11588/DAH.2016.2.23250},
abstract = {GLAM institutions all over the world are digitizing their collections. As the number of items in such a collection amounts to tens or even hundreds of thousands, providing comprehensible access and presentation becomes increasingly difficult. At the same time, a steadily growing amount of this data is openly available. This gives rise to various projects approaching the hidden treasures in these collections with computational tools. The project presented here, Gugelmann Galaxy, lets the user explore an entire collection of digitized images and their textual metadata in an immersive three-dimensional cloud, whose configuration can be rearranged according to different criteria. The project questions traditional models of categorization and curating and implements alternative approaches prototypically.},
language = {eng},
urldate = {2020-03-12},
journal = {{\textless}p{\textgreater}International Journal for Digital Art History},
author = {Bernhard, Mathias},
collaborator = {Graphentis Verlag E.K., Munich},
year = {2016},
pages = {Year: 2015{\textless}/p{\textgreater}},
}
GLAM institutions all over the world are digitizing their collections. As the number of items in such a collection amounts to tens or even hundreds of thousands, providing comprehensible access and presentation becomes increasingly difficult. At the same time, a steadily growing amount of this data is openly available. This gives rise to various projects approaching the hidden treasures in these collections with computational tools. The project presented here, Gugelmann Galaxy, lets the user explore an entire collection of digitized images and their textual metadata in an immersive three-dimensional cloud, whose configuration can be rearranged according to different criteria. The project questions traditional models of categorization and curating and implements alternative approaches prototypically.
Adding value to libraries, archives, and museums: harnessing the force that drives your organization's future.
Matthews, J. R.
Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, California, 2016.
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@book{matthews_adding_2016,
address = {Santa Barbara, California},
title = {Adding value to libraries, archives, and museums: harnessing the force that drives your organization's future},
isbn = {9781440842887},
shorttitle = {Adding value to libraries, archives, and museums},
abstract = {"This book explains the concept of adding value and shows staff at libraries and other organizations why they need to take steps now to ensure they are adding new value to their communities--whether it be a local town or neighborhood, a faculty and student body, or a school"--},
publisher = {Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC},
author = {Matthews, Joseph R.},
year = {2016},
keywords = {LANGUAGE ARTS \& DISCIPLINES / Library \& Information Science / Archives \& Special Libraries, LANGUAGE ARTS \& DISCIPLINES / Library \& Information Science / Collection Development, Libraries, Libraries and community, Library administration, Library planning, Technological innovations, Value added},
}
"This book explains the concept of adding value and shows staff at libraries and other organizations why they need to take steps now to ensure they are adding new value to their communities–whether it be a local town or neighborhood, a faculty and student body, or a school"–
Museums in a digital culture: how art and heritage become meaningful.
Akker, C. v. d.; and Legêne, S.,
editors.
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2016.
OCLC: ocn949751294
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@book{akker_museums_2016,
address = {Amsterdam},
title = {Museums in a digital culture: how art and heritage become meaningful},
isbn = {9789089646613},
shorttitle = {Museums in a digital culture},
abstract = {"The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorise the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?"--Provided by publisher},
publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},
editor = {Akker, Chiel van den and Legêne, Susan},
year = {2016},
note = {OCLC: ocn949751294},
keywords = {Communication in museums, Information technology, Museums},
}
"The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorise the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?"–Provided by publisher
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