{"product_id":"participatory-heritage-9781783301232","title":"Participatory Heritage","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParticipatory Heritage\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDivided into three core sections, this book explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eParticipants in the preservation of cultural heritage; exploring heritage institutions and organisations, community archives and groups\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChallenges; including discussion of giving voices to communities, social inequality, digital archives, data and online sharing\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSolutions; discussing open access and APIs, digital postcards, the case for collaboration, digital storytelling and co-designing heritage practice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadership: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607334207724,"sku":"9781783301232","price":153.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781783301232-participatory-heritage.jpg?v=1778161619","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/participatory-heritage-9781783301232","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}