The Facet Digital Heritage Collection
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2015
Book
1866 pages
978-1-78330-091-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Facet Digital Heritage Collection includes six books written by leading academics and practitioners containing practical guidance and the latest research on digital humanities, cultural heritage information and digital culture.
The books included in the Collection are:
Cultural Heritage Information Access and management
Edited by Ian Ruthven and G G Chowdhury
"Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Ian Ruthven (Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde) and G. G. Chowdhury (Professor of Information Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle), Cultural Heritage Information is comprised of eleven impressively informed and informative articles by lead researchers in the history and impact of digitally transmitted and preserved information upon our cultural legacies. Cultural Heritage Information is a critically important and seminal contribution to academic library reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists with respect to digital libraries, digital humanities and digital culture."- Midwest Book Review
Digital Humanities in Practice Edited by Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan
"An extensive range of topics is covered: digitisation, image processing, 3-D recording of museum objects, text encoding, historical bibliography and online teaching materials. The use of social media, especially for encouraging public engagement in humanities research, is also discussed. There is an interesting analysis of institutional models for digital humanities (again based primarily on the activities of the UCL Centre), which touches on some broader issues connected with involvement in teaching and research as well as the provision of training and support. Each chapter is supplemented and expanded by the inclusion of a series of short case studies - projects illustrating the specific application of the topic under discussion."- Australian Library Journal
Preserving Complex Digital Objects
Edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson
"Ensuring long term access and usability of complex digital objects is of critical importance to the future of nearly every area of arts, culture, the humanities and the sciences. With that noted, to date there is a surprisingly small amount of basic and applied research and scholarship that explicitly engages with issues in this area. To this end, the 25 essays in Preserving Complex Digital Objects are invaluable as documentation and presentation work on this topic."- Journal of Academic Librarianship
Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics
Edited by Samantha K Hastings
"Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut volume of a new series. These scholars are dedicated to practice, reasoning, behaviour, professionalism, and technique in the essential realm of cultural heritage preservation. They are, more than most of the world's scholars, devoted to tracing the treasured continuities of how we live and keep our lives. The reports in this first volume will inform and inspire all parts of our field."- David Carr, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina
Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums How to clean, link and publish your metadata
Seth Van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh
"Van Hooland and Verborgh's handbook on linked data is the first book-length treatment of the subject aimed at museum curators, librarians, archivists and people working in digital humanities. The authors' ambition is to make linked data and the challenges associated with it more comprehensible to heritage professionals. The tone and organization of the handbook are overtly pedagogical. Its chapters are intended not only to follow a logical progression - looking in turn at modelling, cleaning, reconciling, enriching and publishing metadata, topped and tailed by an introduction and conclusion - but also to be usable individually...In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies its place on the professional's bookshelf. It is probably essential reading for any archivist with, or aiming to develop, a special interest in how metadata can or should be made fit for purpose."- Archives and Records
Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence A strategic guide
Mike Ellis
"This is an important addition to the body of digital heritage literature and a strong indication not just of how far we have come in our practice but of how mature today discussion of this subject is."- Dr Ross Parry, University of Leicester
The books included in the Collection are:
Cultural Heritage Information Access and management
Edited by Ian Ruthven and G G Chowdhury
"Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Ian Ruthven (Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde) and G. G. Chowdhury (Professor of Information Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle), Cultural Heritage Information is comprised of eleven impressively informed and informative articles by lead researchers in the history and impact of digitally transmitted and preserved information upon our cultural legacies. Cultural Heritage Information is a critically important and seminal contribution to academic library reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists with respect to digital libraries, digital humanities and digital culture."- Midwest Book Review
Digital Humanities in Practice Edited by Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan
"An extensive range of topics is covered: digitisation, image processing, 3-D recording of museum objects, text encoding, historical bibliography and online teaching materials. The use of social media, especially for encouraging public engagement in humanities research, is also discussed. There is an interesting analysis of institutional models for digital humanities (again based primarily on the activities of the UCL Centre), which touches on some broader issues connected with involvement in teaching and research as well as the provision of training and support. Each chapter is supplemented and expanded by the inclusion of a series of short case studies - projects illustrating the specific application of the topic under discussion."- Australian Library Journal
Preserving Complex Digital Objects
Edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson
"Ensuring long term access and usability of complex digital objects is of critical importance to the future of nearly every area of arts, culture, the humanities and the sciences. With that noted, to date there is a surprisingly small amount of basic and applied research and scholarship that explicitly engages with issues in this area. To this end, the 25 essays in Preserving Complex Digital Objects are invaluable as documentation and presentation work on this topic."- Journal of Academic Librarianship
Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics
Edited by Samantha K Hastings
"Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut volume of a new series. These scholars are dedicated to practice, reasoning, behaviour, professionalism, and technique in the essential realm of cultural heritage preservation. They are, more than most of the world's scholars, devoted to tracing the treasured continuities of how we live and keep our lives. The reports in this first volume will inform and inspire all parts of our field."- David Carr, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina
Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums How to clean, link and publish your metadata
Seth Van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh
"Van Hooland and Verborgh's handbook on linked data is the first book-length treatment of the subject aimed at museum curators, librarians, archivists and people working in digital humanities. The authors' ambition is to make linked data and the challenges associated with it more comprehensible to heritage professionals. The tone and organization of the handbook are overtly pedagogical. Its chapters are intended not only to follow a logical progression - looking in turn at modelling, cleaning, reconciling, enriching and publishing metadata, topped and tailed by an introduction and conclusion - but also to be usable individually...In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies its place on the professional's bookshelf. It is probably essential reading for any archivist with, or aiming to develop, a special interest in how metadata can or should be made fit for purpose."- Archives and Records
Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence A strategic guide
Mike Ellis
"This is an important addition to the body of digital heritage literature and a strong indication not just of how far we have come in our practice but of how mature today discussion of this subject is."- Dr Ross Parry, University of Leicester
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 103 mm
Weight
2584 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78330-091-4 (9781783300914)
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Persons
Ian Ruthven is Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde.
G G Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University.
Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan are all members of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.
Janet Delve is co-leader of the interdisciplinary Future Proof Computing Group in the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth. She is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Editorial Board.
David Anderson is co-leader of the interdisciplinary Future Proof Computing Group at the University of Portsmouth. He is the Director of CiTECH (the Centre for Cultural and Industrial Technologies Research) in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries.
Samantha K Hastings is director and professor at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science. Previously she directed the digital image management program of study at the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences, and has worked as a consultant helping public libraries and museums share their cultural objects in a digital environment. A previous president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asist.org) and acquisitions editor for the ASIS&T Monograph series, she will be President of The Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) in 2015.
Seth van Hooland is associate professor at the Information and Communication Science department of the Universite libre de Bruxelles, where he holds the chair in Digital Information. Van Hooland is also active as a consultant for clients such as the European Commission and occasionally works for leading companies in the SemanticWeb industry such as Mondeca and Poolparty.
Ruben Verborgh is a PhD researcher in semantic hypermedia at Multimedia Lab - GhentUniversity - iMinds, Belgium. As a Master in Computer Science Engineering, he closely follows and participates in the latest evolutions on the Web. He is particularly fascinated by the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Web APIs and autonomous Web agents, and has authored more than 40 papers on these topics.
Mike Ellis is a Digital Strategist at Eduserv who is particularly interested in how web and mobile technologies can help non-technical people communicate, share and create. He writes and presents extensively, runs conferences and gives workshops on various aspects of web technology. He has spent much of his working life in and around cultural heritage and other content-rich institutions, and was Head of Web at The National Museum of Science and Industry from 2000 to 2007.
G G Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University.
Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan are all members of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.
Janet Delve is co-leader of the interdisciplinary Future Proof Computing Group in the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth. She is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Editorial Board.
David Anderson is co-leader of the interdisciplinary Future Proof Computing Group at the University of Portsmouth. He is the Director of CiTECH (the Centre for Cultural and Industrial Technologies Research) in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries.
Samantha K Hastings is director and professor at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science. Previously she directed the digital image management program of study at the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences, and has worked as a consultant helping public libraries and museums share their cultural objects in a digital environment. A previous president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asist.org) and acquisitions editor for the ASIS&T Monograph series, she will be President of The Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) in 2015.
Seth van Hooland is associate professor at the Information and Communication Science department of the Universite libre de Bruxelles, where he holds the chair in Digital Information. Van Hooland is also active as a consultant for clients such as the European Commission and occasionally works for leading companies in the SemanticWeb industry such as Mondeca and Poolparty.
Ruben Verborgh is a PhD researcher in semantic hypermedia at Multimedia Lab - GhentUniversity - iMinds, Belgium. As a Master in Computer Science Engineering, he closely follows and participates in the latest evolutions on the Web. He is particularly fascinated by the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Web APIs and autonomous Web agents, and has authored more than 40 papers on these topics.
Mike Ellis is a Digital Strategist at Eduserv who is particularly interested in how web and mobile technologies can help non-technical people communicate, share and create. He writes and presents extensively, runs conferences and gives workshops on various aspects of web technology. He has spent much of his working life in and around cultural heritage and other content-rich institutions, and was Head of Web at The National Museum of Science and Industry from 2000 to 2007.
Content
Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: Samantha K Hastings;
Cultural Heritage Information: Ian Ruthven and G. G. Chowdhury;
Digital Humanities in Practice: Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras, and Julianne Nyhan;
Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: Seth van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh;
Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence: Mike Ellis;
Preserving Complex Digital Objects: Janet Delve and David Anderson;
Cultural Heritage Information: Ian Ruthven and G. G. Chowdhury;
Digital Humanities in Practice: Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras, and Julianne Nyhan;
Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: Seth van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh;
Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence: Mike Ellis;
Preserving Complex Digital Objects: Janet Delve and David Anderson;