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- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Reviews
The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has through different social media (such as Facebook and Tumblr) has created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how to manage copyright, ownership, orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artifacts, crowdsourcing, cultural heritage amateurs, information as a commodity or information as public domain, sustainable preservation, attitudes towards openness and much more.
Participatory Heritage explores these issues and demonstrates that in order for personal and community-based documentation and artifacts to be preserved and included in social and collective histories, individuals and community groups need the technical and knowledge infrastructures of support that formal cultural institutions can provide. In other words, both groups need each other. Divided into three core sections, this book examines
- participants in the preservation of cultural heritage, exploring heritage institutions and organizations, and community archives and groups;
- challenges, including coverage of giving voices to communities, social inequality, digital archives, data and online sharing; and
- methods for participation, with discussion of open access and APIs, digital postcards, the case for collaboration, digital storytelling and co-designing heritage practice.
Introduction
PART 1
1. A communal rock: sustaining a community archives in Flat Rock, Georgia – JoyEllen Freeman
2. The Bethel AME Church Archive: partners and participants - Andrea Copeland
3. Creating an authentic learning environment for school children: a case study of digital storytelling programs at the Mudgeeraba Light Horse Museum - Janis Hanley
4. Viking re-enactment - Lars Konzack
5. Learning, loving and living at the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame - Sarah Baker
6. The contributions of family and local historians to British history online - Mia Ridge
7. Forgotten history on Wikipedia - Henriette Roued-Cunliffe
PART 2
8. Custodianship and online sharing in Australian community archives - Courtney Ruge, Tom Denison, Steven Wright, Graham Willett, Joanne Evans
9. Who is the expert in participatory culture? - Lýsa Hannah Westberg and Thessa Jensen
10. Social inequalities in the shaping of cultural heritage infrastructure - Noah Lenstra
11. No Gun Ri Digital Archive: challenges in archiving memory for a historically marginalized incident - Donghee Sinn
12 Giving voice to the community: digitizing Jeffco oral histories - Krystyna K. Matusiak, Padma Polepeddi, Allison Tyler, Catherine Newton and Julianne Rist
13. Issues with archiving community data - Lydia Spotts
PART 3
14. Ethiopian stories in an English landscape - Shawn Sobers
15. Having a lovely time: localized crowdsourcing to create a 1930s street view of Bristol from a digitized postcard collection - Nicholas Nourse, Peter Insole and Julian Warren
16. Digital ARChiving in Canadian Artist-Run Centres - Shannon Lucky
17. New approaches to the community recording and preservation of burial space - Gareth Beale, Nicole Smith and St Mary the Virgin Embsay with Eastby Churchyard survey team
18. A case for collaboration: solving practical problems in cultural heritage digitization
projects - Craig Harkema and Joel Salt
19. Open heritage data and APIs - Henriette Roued-Cunliffe
Index
"This is a book of interesting and useful lessons learned, where readers can benefit from what the authors suggest they could have done differently ... A valuable addition to the literature, and I hope it is widely used."
— Information Management Magazine
"As this highly selective summary demonstrates, there is much in this volume for readers with a variety of interests, although not every case study will be of relevance to all ... Nonetheless, there is real value in reading the studies as a whole. It will be thought-provoking for most readers, whether around the boundaries of our professional self-definition, the need to listen to communities in developing our work with them, or our understanding of linkages across the spectrum of what may be defined as heritage practice."
— Archives and Records