Recoding the Museum
Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change
Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-35388-5 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-35388-5 (ISBN)
Through an historical approach, Ross Parry excavates cultural assumptions and values that provide the basis of museum information management and display, and that are still used to this day.
Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?
And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?
Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?
Drawing upon an impressive range of professional and theoretical sources, this book offers one of the first substantial histories of museum computing. Its ambitious narrative attempts to explain a series of essential tensions between curatorship and the digital realm.
Ultimately, it reveals how through the emergence of standards, increased coordination, and celebration (rather than fearing) of the ‘virtual’, the sector has experienced a broadening of participation, a widening of creative horizons and, ultimately, has helped to define a new cultural role for museums. Having confronted and understood its past, what emerges is a museum transformed – rescripted, re calibrated, rewritten, reorganised.
Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?
And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?
Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?
Drawing upon an impressive range of professional and theoretical sources, this book offers one of the first substantial histories of museum computing. Its ambitious narrative attempts to explain a series of essential tensions between curatorship and the digital realm.
Ultimately, it reveals how through the emergence of standards, increased coordination, and celebration (rather than fearing) of the ‘virtual’, the sector has experienced a broadening of participation, a widening of creative horizons and, ultimately, has helped to define a new cultural role for museums. Having confronted and understood its past, what emerges is a museum transformed – rescripted, re calibrated, rewritten, reorganised.
University of Leicester, UK
1. Museum/Computer: a history of disconnect? 2. From the ‘day book’ to the ‘data bank’: the beginnings of museum computing 3. Disaggregating the collection 4. Recalibrating authenticity 5. Rescripting the visit 6. Rewriting the narrative 7. Reorganising production 8. Computers and compatibility
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.11.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Museum Meanings |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 360 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-35388-2 / 0415353882 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-35388-5 / 9780415353885 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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