Participatory Heritage

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Participatory Heritage examines the evolving relationship between the internet, social media, and cultural heritage institutions. The book discusses the challenges posed by copyright, ownership, open data access, and sustainable preservation. It uses international case studies to show that both community groups and formal institutions must collaborate to ensure personal and collective histories are preserved. The book is divided into three sections covering participants in heritage preservation, key challenges like social inequality and digital archives, and potential solutions including open access and digital storytelling.
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This book is ideal for professionals working in libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies, as well as students studying library, archive, and cultural heritage courses.

This book provides a wide range of international guidance and perspectives on the complexity of issues surrounding the preservation of local cultural heritage, ranging from formal cultural heritage institutions to individual community members in the associated processes of creation, organization, access, use and preservation.

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The internet as a platform for facilitating human organisation without the need for organisations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: managing copyright, ownership, orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artefacts, crowdsourcing, cultural heritage amateurs, information as a commodity or information as public domain, sustainable preservation, attitudes towards openness and much more.

Participatory Heritage uses a selection of international case studies to explore these issues. It demonstrates that for personal and community-based documentation and artefacts 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 explores:

Participants in the preservation of cultural heritage; exploring heritage institutions and organisations, community archives and groups
Challenges; including discussion of giving voices to communities, social inequality, digital archives, data and online sharing
Solutions; discussing open access and APIs, digital postcards, the case for collaboration, digital storytelling and co-designing heritage practice.

Readership: This book will be useful reading for individuals working in cultural institutions such as libraries, museums, archives and historical societies. It will also be of interest to students taking library, archive and cultural heritage courses.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783301232

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 January 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Henriette Roued-Cunliffe
Edited by Andrea Copeland

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 163g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Henriette Roued-Cunliffe DPhil is an Assistant Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She teaches and researches heritage data and information, and in particular how DIY culture is engaging with cultural heritage online and often outside of institutions. Her website is: roued.com.
Andrea Copeland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Her research focus is public libraries and their relationship with communities, with a current emphasis on connecting the cultural outputs of individuals and community groups to a sustainable preservation infrastructure.