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Hallel. Carmel. Bezalel The Exhibitions: Halel. Carmel Winery 'Judaica Now!': Goblets and Kiddush Cups of the Bezalel School These two exhibitions: "Halel. Carmel Winery" and "'Judaica Now!': Goblets and Kiddush Cups of the Bezalel... more

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- Business, Art History, Jewish Studies, Design
- by Anne-Lise Tropato
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- Gender Studies, Iconography, Art History, Digital Collections
- by Marco Roque de Freitas
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- Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Metadata, Digital Collections

Hackathons were originated from both the evolution of and revolution caused by personal computers. Initially, they have been implemented as a collaborative method for solving computer-related problems or conceptualizing new possibilities based on specific infrastructures. Only later on, when Cultural Institutions had undergone intensive digitization, Hackathons started to be part of their repertoire. Because of the special nature of Cultural Institutions, Hackathons for Cultural Heritage cannot be understood in the same way as their counterparts happening in a purely engineering domain. Problem solving and conceptualization through collaborative programming are entangled with the significance of the content matter they intend to deal with: the institutionsa collections. Based on these considerations, this thesis aims at explaining the underlying principles, interactions, and infrastructures of the Hackathon as a method for Heritage Interpretation. Moreover, the thesis also proposes a Fast-speed IT Platform, which was designed within the context of the Two-speed IT infrastructure, where a foundational, stable, and slow infrastructure is complemented by an additional creative, experimental, and agile infrastructure, which is capable of promptly responding to the needs of communities. The platform is an effort to implement strategies for interpreting, recontextualizing, and telling stories with Digital Collections. In addition, the platform aims at mitigating problems concerning technical knowledge that is usually required for taking advantage of the affordances of Digital Collections as a creative material.

- by Leonardo de Araújo
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- Cultural Heritage, Museum Education, Constructionism, Digital Collections

This article reflects on the process of digitising a collection of almost 1800 Victorian Valentines cards. The Museum of London’s card collection is only a fraction of an individual’s extensive collection of greetings cards. This article argues that the work of documenting and photographing the cards revealed information about the nature of collecting. There have always been inconsistencies between professional and personal collecting activities: the museum acquired just part of the collection because the entire collection was so vast it was considered unmanageable. Collections online and digitisation work has suggested several points about the nature of the collection as context and this short article discusses some of these ideas.

- by Ellie Miles
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- Museum Studies, Digitization, Digital Collections, Curating

Compilation of 2636 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescoes, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 728 identified artists of the Low Countries, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. 202 pp. With an Index of Artists, a Directory of Owners and an extensive Bibliography. See further details in the link.
Available as paperback book ($15.00) or as hardcover book (€19.20).
Readers interested in the quantitative approach in art history are kindly invited to contact the author directly.

- by K. Bender
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- Iconography, Data Analysis, Digital Collections, Quantitative Methods

Compilation of 2997 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescoes, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 977 identified French artists from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. 194 pp. With an Index of Artists, a Directory of Owners and an extensive Bibliography. See further details in the link.
Available as paperback book ($15.00) or as hardbound book (€19.20). Readers interested in the quantitative approach in art history are kindly invited to contact the author directly.

- by K. Bender
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- Iconography, Data Analysis, Digital Collections, Quantitative Methods

Museums provide an environment for the long term care of Indigenous cultural objects. Some Indigenous Cultural objects in museum collections have spiritual significance and for that reason have limitations and requirements that affect how they are managed. Museums adopt various methods in the care of spiritual objects, often according to instructions given by Indigenous authorities.
This thesis examines how museums have implemented specialised care in the storage, display, reproduction, conservation and repatriation of Indigenous objects with spiritual significance. Firstly, it interrogates how museums have adapted their storage spaces to accommodate Indigenous objects with spiritual significance, alongside other collections. Secondly, it examines the display of spiritual objects and the occurrence of audience restrictions. Thirdly, it explores the meaning of reproductions of spiritual objects for Indigenous cultures. Fourthly, it examines the conservation and preservation of spiritual objects and their special needs. Finally, it explores how the repatriation of spiritual objects fosters closer relationships between museums and Indigenous communities. This thesis contends that the museum’s special care of spiritual objects preserves the object’s significance and integrity and helps build stronger relationships between museums and Indigenous communities.

- by Nicole Lathrop
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- Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Collections Management, Spirituality

Compilation of 1840 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescoes, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 649 identified Italian artists from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. 156pp. With an Index of Artists, a Directory of Owners and an extensive Bibliography. See further details in the link.
Available as paperback book($ 10.92) or as hardcover book (€ 12.00). Readers interested in the quantitative approach in art history are kindly invited to contact the author directly.

- by K. Bender
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- Iconography, Data Analysis, Italian art, Digital Collections

Potentials of scientific research in general are obviously subject to changes in accordance with current digital information and communication environment, which is capable to give new, advanced performances, or those essentially different from the traditional ones, even in the domain of humanities, including literary studies as well. In this connection, developing a digital heritage repository, as a way of organizing and composing objects of heritage in selected thematic entities, is demanding, but also inspiring possibility in the case of literary heritage as well. The aim of the proposed paper is to examine potentials and advantages of developing a digital repository of Meša Selimović’s literary work. The focused problem is going to be approached in a holistic manner, which means in terms of its practical and cultural values, but also in terms of its feasibility. The authors of the proposed paper are taking interdisciplinary methodological sides, which is caused by the authors’ d...

- by Sanjin Kodric
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- Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Digitization, Digital Collections

The ROSSIO Infrastructure is developing a free and open-access platform for aggregating, organising, and connecting the digital resources in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities provided by Portuguese higher education and cultural institutions. This paper presents an overview of the ROSSIO Infrastructure, its main objectives, the institutions involved, and the services offered by the infrastructure’s aims through its platform—namely, a discovery portal, digital exhibitions, collections, and a virtual research environment. These services rely on a metadata-aggregation solution for bringing the digital objects’ metadata from the providing institutions into ROSSIO. The aggregated datasets are converted into linked data and undergo an enrichment process based on controlled vocabularies, which are developed and published by ROSSIO. The paper will describe this process, the applications involved, and how they interoperate. We will further reflect on how these services may enhance the dissemination of science, considering the FAIR principles.

- by Gonçalo Melo da Silva and +4
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- Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Metadata, Digital Collections

The Catholic University of Milan’s owns an important collection of ancient coins, which is being used for instructional purposes to incorporate a hands-on component into a numismatics course. This collection allows students to learn the methodology of cataloguing coins as historical documents. As a result, a virtual exhibit was posted on the university’s website (english: http://monetaoro.unicatt.it/default_e.asp; italian: http://monetaoro.unicatt.it). This initiative was designed to test the Internet’s potential for disseminating and enhancing data related to cultural and, more specifically, numismatic resources.

- by Claudia Perassi
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- Numismatics, Digital Collections, Online Learning, Collecting and Collections

As an object of design of clothes, ornaments and symbols are the instrument through which they become attractive to consumers. The ancient Egyptian ornaments, their elements, shapes, colors and proportions between them are a basis for creation of modern clothing. A comparative analysis is made of websites containing digital collections of ancient Egyptian symbols and are defined their advantages and disadvantages. A program algorithm is developed to obtain raster images from vector coordinates of ancient Egyptian symbols. The algorithm is used in the creation of elements for digital collection. The collection is realized on the Internet site. Proposals are made for application of the research and developments in practice.

- by Laura Humphreys and +1
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- Geography, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Museum Studies

A report about the Spanish Synagogue, its reconstruction and the new permanent exhibition 'Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 19th-20th Centuries' by Michaela Sidenberg, Iveta Cermanová, Jana Šplíchalová
The Jewish Museum in Prague, one of the oldest public Judaic collections since 1906, has opened the new permanent exhibition Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 19th-20th Centuries in the Spanish Synagogue. After a year and a half long reconstruction, the exhibition features Jewish history in the Bohemian lands, with the help of priceless original objects as well as the use of digital technology. The exhibition has been awarded the Gloria Musaealis 2020 Special Prize in the Museum Project category.

- by Misha Sidenberg
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- Jewish Studies, Museum Studies, Czech History, Jewish History

Emerging technologies and shared standards have opened up new avenues for the curation and presentation of data in archives and published research. Among their many benefits, these developments have made collections across archives more accessible, and have vastly improved the visual experience for users. This paper focuses on the next step in applying technical development and standards to digital collections: improving discoverability and providing a visual product that is simultaneously informative and experiential. The cases presented here focus on new approaches in these areas, with an emphasis on the utilization of visual search and discovery across a research archive and the integration of data and image into an augmented reality (AR) experience, with discussion of how these approaches can improve the usability of visual material while broadening the user's experience from the purely visual into the realm of the immersive.

- by Jeff Emanuel and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Human Computer Interaction, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities)

By examining the use of digitised collections within community-based archives this article highlights the new, active roles collection items are playing within cultural practice. Freed from the restrictions of institutional control, collection items are open to new modes of community participation and collaboration. The characteristics of these archives, locally controlled and structured around restricted access, challenges assumed notions of reciprocity inherent in digital networks and community collaboration projects. This article uses community-based archives to speculate that the future of digitised collections is one of proliferation, and that inclusion of the complex meanings and associations attached to re-contextualised digital copies presents a number of challenges to future archival practice.

Reference is increasingly made to ‘digital collections’, yet this term encompasses accumulated digital objects of varying form, purpose and value. We review social science literature on mate-rial collections and draw from in-depth interviews with 20 peo-ple in the UK in order to offer a clearer understanding of what constitutes a digital collection and what does not. We develop a taxonomy that presents three distinct types of digital collection and demonstrate ways in which the affordances of digital envi-ronments may facilitate or impede meaningful practices of ac-quisition, curation and exhibition in each case. Through doing so, we present a framework for design in support of collecting prac-tices and the development of more meaningful and valued digital collections.

- by Rebecca Mardon and +1
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- Digital Media, Consumer Behavior, Digital Collections, HCI

A developed digital collection of textile patterns is presented Iin the report. As objects in this collection designed modern textile prints developed on the basis of elements of ancient Egyptian costume are included. Software tools are developed to obtain colors, shapes and descriptions of the used ancient Egyptian elements. The resulting elements are in vector format, and can be used in CAD systems and spreadsheets. Descriptions of these motifs can be used for comparison with such elements from other national costumes.

- by Julieta Ilieva
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- Engineering, Image Processing, Digital Collections, Smart Textiles

In this paper the authors have described, how digital library collections can be developed and customized with the most updated version of Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL). An experiment collection has been developed to demonstrate the various steps involved in the development of digital collection. The digital collection developed on GSDL has very effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities ie subject hierarchy, author search and so on. The entire process of developing digital collection in ...

- by Mohammad Aqil
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- Library Science, Digital Collections, Digital Library, GSDL

The purpose of this study is to investigate correlations between digitized historical materials and the paradigm changes of popularizing history in the Korean history.
The popularizing history has gone through four paradigms in Korean History : first, popularizing history happened thanks to “spread of paper” and “development of printing.” In Chosŏn(朝鮮) period, in particular, letterpress and wood-block printing led the spread of knowledge in a mutually supplementary way, which resulted in the conversion of “delivery of memories,” a traditional concept of history, into “historical studies” and “research on the past”; the second paradigm keywords were “modern” and “enlightenment.” The publishing manufacture according to modern technological advancement opened doors to the massive distribution of historical knowledge. The introduction of modern education witnessed the history subject leading the spread of history; the third paradigm represented a meaningful time in the popular spread of Korean history in the aspects of historians’ self-awareness, securement of research diversity, efforts to narrow down the gap between historians and the public, various social activities of historians, and non-experts’ growing writing about history books; and the final paradigm saw the establishment of “digitized historical materials” based on the “development of information technology(IT)” having huge impacts on the production of historical knowledge by historians and non-experts on history. The fourth paradigm was characterized by the subjects of history consumption creating new content separate from the providers of knowledge unlike in the past. This paradigm became an inflection point of history consumption where the trend of popularizing history changed from passive history consumption to active history consumption and production. In the paradigm changes of popularizing history, the major driving force behind the fourth change was the large-scale accumulation and provision of digitized historical materials. This period witnessed the growth of research findings in Korean history both in quantity and quality and the production of various kinds of historical content including videos about history. Historical dramas(TV), in particular, made a 103.7% increase in the 2000s from the 1990s. Although the production of historical films since the 2000s was poor, but there was a meaningful change with 22 historical films making the top 100 box office list(2003~August, 2018). The investigator found the cause of these changes starting in the 2000s in the influences of digitized historical materials mentioned earlier. The increase of digitally constructed historical materials and the growing access to them became the major driving force for the public to move to the stage of producing historical content beyond the consumption stage of history and made the pattern of history consumption hit an inflection point.
There is, however, a concern with the possibilities that the original values of historical studies might be misused according to the growing popular consumption and production of history. Historians thus need to provide specialized materials to help the public make their own historical analysis and enrich understanding and communication between historians and consumers through interactions. In addition, they need to accumulate the research findings of outcomes according to the changed pattern of popularizing history by analyzing, sorting out, categorizing, and defining a variety of history content in continuous production.

- by Sung jee Joo
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- Digital History, Historical Films, Digital Collections, Historical Drama

En los últimos años, con la evolución de la web y el crecimiento exponencial de usuarios en las redes sociales, ha surgido una nueva generación de usuarios, conocidos como coleccionistas digitales, los cuales, al no contar con mecanismos de organización efectivos, se convierten en acaparadores digitales. Sin embargo, esta situación es moderada a través de herramientas de software para el manejo de información personal (PIM) enfocadas al coleccionismo. En este trabajo, se analizaron algunas de ellas con el objetivo de proponer e implementar una propia, que cuente con características similares y que principalmente, mejore los procesos de personalización y organización de una colección digital. Al final del artículo, se sugiere explorar algunas líneas de investigación que involucran técnicas de inteligencia artificial, y disciplinas emergentes como la lingüística computacional y la gestión del conocimiento con el propósito de optimizar actividades de gestión en colecciones digitales.

Museen erweitern ihr Vermittlungsangebot immer mehr über die physische Einrichtung hinaus, u.a. durch die Bereitstellung Digitaler Sammlungen im Web. Digitale Sammlungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die in ihnen gezeigten Objekte speziell für das Web aufbereitet und präsentiert werden. Der Anspruch besteht dabei darin, die Gesamtheit der musealen Sammlungen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Um diese umfassenden Datensätze zugänglich und ein Schlendern durch die Bestände zu ermöglichen, wird innerhalb der Digitalen Sammlungen zunehmend ein sogenannter Explore-Modus angeboten. Auf der Basis einer Untersuchung des Begriffes der Exploration wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit acht bekannte Museen im Hinblick auf die Explore-Modi ihrer Digitalen Sammlungen miteinander verglichen und analysiert. Es wurde eine dreiteilige Methode mit dem Namen Reverse Information Architecture entwickelt, um die folgende Frage zu beantworten: Wie manifestiert sich die Funktion der Exploration in der Struktur und den Interface-Elementen der Digitalen Sammlungen? Mit der entwickelten Methode wird der Inhalt der Websites analysiert, um zu untersuchen, inwiefern Konzepte der Exploration in den Digitalen Sammlungen umgesetzt werden.

- by Sarah Kreiseler
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- Museum Studies, Digital Collections, Graphical User Interfaces
- by Mark Freeman
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- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Digital Humanities

If we go online to search the phrase ‘Pound Archive’, we find out that it refers almost exclusively to the Ezra Pound Archive in the Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, with an occasional reference to the Pound collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin. The collection at the Beinecke has been informally called the ‘Pound Archive’ ever since press coverage of its acquisition by the library in 1973. If finding aids are any indication, however, the Beinecke collection is officially the Ezra Pound Papers, and the UT collection is designated the Ezra Pound Collection. So neither collection, considered individually or collectively, can be considered the ‘Pound Archive’. In fact, as Mark Byron writes, Pound left a formidable archive of literary documents, letters, executive correspondence with literary journals, social and political essays, and swathes of notes taken...

According to scholars, the Hackable City model is replacing the Smart City one. The participatory approach in the digital revolution is a fundamental element of this new city and society model, which is much more inclusive than the previous one. This model is also perfectly applicable to the co-creative, inclusive and bottom-up participation in culture.
Here, presenting the case study project #iziTRAVELSicilia, we can demonstrate how a creative and participatory involvement in co-creation of cultural digital content could have positive impacts on a museum management also in terms of costs of implementation and updating; maintenance; conservation; long-term social and economic revenues; and, finally, quantitative performances.
According to the evolution from the smart city model to the kaching one, this project offers insights both to policy makers, on the possibility for defining territorial promotion strategies, and to museums’ and cultural institutions’ staffs, on the possibility of defining sustainable communication and participatory strategies about their collections, such as the case of the Ursino Castle Civic Museum in Catania, which staff since 3 years is involving many High School and University of Catania students in communicating their collection.

- by Elisa Bonacini
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- Digital Humanities, Museum Studies, Digital Museum, Museum Education

This article discusses opportunities and current issues of digital approaches for papyrology. It seeks to determine whether good practice is adopted throughout the development of the projects, thereby allowing use, reuse and sustainability over the long term, hence ongoing usefulness and usability, while suggesting possible improvements. I shall reflect on how the growth and evolution of digital content and tools, which rely on novel ways of representing and sharing primary sources, analysis and interpretation, with their various purposes and audiences, is assisting the papyrologist's work with new modes of research practices and of scholarly communication.

- by Lucia Vannini
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- Digital Humanities, Papyrology, Electronic publishing, Digital Collections
- by Sanjin Kodric
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- Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Digitization, Digital Collections

Digital technologies and their uses within museum collections have until recently been explored primarily from a technical viewpoint. Increasingly, museum professionals are moving beyond technologically-driven reasoning to entertain new ways of conceptualizing both collections and information. This is leading to knowledge models beyond those already imagined. This paper considers the synergy between theoretical ideas in the academy and the computer ontologies that have been brought to bear on collections information. Drawing on user research findings from the Themescaping Virtual Collections project and the work of leading literary and media theorists, the paper examines how user needs and digital technologies are reformulating our understanding of museum collections and the relationships between museums and audiences. The knowledge connection—Media theorist Marshall McLuhan (1964, xi) challenged technologically deterministic arguments to account for the emergence of new technologies (notably print, and, more recently, television). McLuhan stated: " We become what we behold that we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. " Viewing the world in terms of embedded knowledge structures, he argued, enables the development of tools that emulate new social and theoretical ideas. New ways of perceiving encourage social transformation. These tools—and the technological innovations they reflect—offer possibilities beyond those originally imagined. In the current technological context, poststructuralism and postmodernism are the theoretical structures that enabled multimedia and the Internet to emerge as forms of information architecture. Multimedia, hypertext, hypermedia and the Internet might be described as the ultimate postmodern media set. The intellectual characteristics of post-325 Fiona Cameron (fiona.cameron@arts.usyd.edu.au) is a research fellow in history in the

- by Fiona Cameron
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- Museum Studies, History of Museums, Digital Collections, Museums

in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol 118(1), Spring 2017.

- by Viola Koenig
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- Digital Media, Museum Anthropology, History of Museums, Digital Collections

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the availability of embedded metadata within images of digital cultural collections. It is designed to examine a proposed hypothesis that most digitally derived images of cultural resources are stripped of their metadata once they are placed on the web.
Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 603 images were selected randomly from four cultural portals which aggregate digitized cultural collections, then four steps in the data collection process took place to examine image metadata via the web-based tool and windows application.
Findings – The study revealed that 28.5 percent of the analyzed images contained metadata, no links exist between image embedded metadata and its metadata record or the pages of the websites analyzed, and there is a significant usage of Extensible Metadata Platform to encode embedded metadata within the images.
Practical implications – The findings of the study may encourage heritage digital collection providers to reconsider their metadata preservation practices and policies to enrich the content of embedded metadata.
In addition, it will raise awareness about the potential and value of embedded metadata in enhancing the findability and exchange of digital collections.
Originality/value – This study is ground breaking in that it is one of the early studies, especially in the Arab world, which aim to recognize the use of image embedded metadata within cultural heritage digital collections on the web.

- by Emad Saleh
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- Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Digital Collections, Embedded Metadata
- by Oluwatoyin Sogbesan
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- Digital Collections, Digital museums
- by maha kumaran
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- Digital Collections, Print media

In 2010, UNESCO inscribed falconry on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In recognition of UNESCO's decision, New York University in Abu Dhabi made the study of the millennial practice of falconry enter its academic fields of Heritage Studies and the broader Humanities to which they belong. Whilst falconry is certainly good in practice, it is also good theoretically too, for it is much more than a hunting story. It is also an excellent prism through which to explore and analyse how we humans use birds of prey (and non-human species in general) to understand and define ourselves, our civilisations and our aspirations across a range of ethnic, religious , historical and geographical differences. This short essay presents an ongoing research project which aims to establish a digital collection at NYU Abu Dhabi, drawn from artistic representations of various falconry cultures and create for them narrative contexts based on artistic and historical research. This academic endeavour unveils, more generally, how the array of convergent practices characteristic of the rapidly developing field of Digital Humanities-the practice of humanities research in and through information technology-can play an inaugural role to further falconry scholarship , create new forms of knowledge and explore technology's impact on falconry-based disciplines.

- by Anne-Lise Tropato
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- Iconography, Art History, Digital Humanities, Digital Collections

Genova, Palazzo Ducale, 3 Dicembre 2019

- by Luca Bochicchio
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- Digital Collections, Museology, Museums, Audience Development

The present article comes from the work of students from two projects vinculated to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), these being “Museologia na UFRGS: Trajetória e Memórias”, focusing on the history of the Museology graduate course, and the “Projeto de Gestão de Acervos Museológicos da UFRGS”, connected to the Physics Institute. Both projects possess the same working tool, Tainacan, a free software created specifically to manage brazilian museological collections. Through the registration of these collections on this digital repository, it’s considered that both projects allow not only the safekeeping of these university collections, its history and connected institutional memories, but will also encourage research and educational knowledge, producing new sources of information.

- by Nathália Freitas and +1
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- Collections Management, Digital Collections, Museology, Museologia

The MoRE Museum (the Museum of Refused and Unrealized Art Projects) is a digital museum that collects, preserves and exhibits refused and unfinished art projects of the 20 and 21st centuries. The MoRE Museum, born in 2012, from the collaboration of two Italian researchers, Elisabetta Modena and Marco Scotti, was recently awarded the Italian prize I8 for independent art spaces and was “exhibited” at the MAXXI in Rome. In the wake of the virtualisation process, which has led to the advent of virtual works and exhibitions (The Gallery of Lost Art, Tate Gallery, London, 2012), the MoRE Museum is not the digital platform of a real museum. On the contrary, it is a virtual institution which has appropriated the digital language to make it a heuristic device.
By insisting on the hybridisation of the museum process, generated by the virtual nature of this museum, the paper aims at a critical rereading of some key concepts: archives, projects, artwork, collection, in a contemporary, digital perspective. From the ontological change experienced by the idea of project (which loses its nature of preparatory work to acquire the very status of artwork), we will go on to question the virtual modalities of spectatorship apprehension and experience, until the point of probing the very condition of this museum, exhibited as artwork, inside another museum.

- by Pamela Bianchi
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- Museum Studies, Digital Museum, Contemporary Art, History of Museums

Die Dokumentation der eigenen Sammlung fürs Publikum im WWW online zu stellen, bringt einige Herausforderungen mit sich, denn der Zweck der Sammlungsdokumentation ist zumeist Nachweis und Arbeitsgrundlage. Für die öffentliche Präsentation und – wenn möglich – Weiterverwendbarkeit der Daten sind konzeptionell einige Schritte zu bedenken, um den Daten eine optimale Zukunft im Web zu verschaffen. Diese Fragen haben sowohl mit dem Verständnis von Dokumentation, als auch mit dem von Online-Technologien und Online-Strategien zu tun – sollten also idealerweise interdisziplinär diskutiert werden. Bei den gemeinsamen Überlegungen, wie digitale Daten in unterschiedlichen Kontexten genutzt werden können, gilt es, sowohl interne Workflows wie auch externe Nutzungsinteressen (auf der eigenen Website wie auch im Verbund) einzubeziehen. Einleitung Informationen aus Museen – über die reine Bewerbung von Onsite-Aktivitäten hinaus – online verfügbar zu machen, ist inzwischen eine allgegenwärtige und berechtigte Erwartung an Museen. Zu diesen Informationen gehören auch die Daten der Sammlungsdokumentation, die zum einen Auskunft darüber geben können, was ein Museum sammelt, zum anderen was ein Museum zu den gesammelten Beständen für Informationen generiert.

- by etta grotrian
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- Media and Cultural Studies, Digital Museum, Museum, Digital Media