How Bits and Bytes Widen Cultural Heritage Boundaries
Abstract
Cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, natural or cultural, movable or immovable, is a valuable inherit from the past, and a basic need for contemporary society. Lined up with the 2005 Faro Convention and the United Nations Organization 2030 Agenda, governments and institutions that work in the cultural heritage sector, supported by international and national public policies and programs, have engaged ways for cultural access and heritage preservation.
Memory institutions (like Libraries, Archives and Museums) benefited from the digital environment by engaging massive collections digitization both for access and preservation of cultural heritage. At the same time, they started to question about their differences and resemblances and to be more concerned with information (content) instead of the physical support.
Thus, Information Science represents a changing in professional attitudes, and academic curricula, and leading to convergence and collaboration.
The aim of this paper is to underline the paradigm shift that the digital environment brought to cultural institutions and how cultural heritage is converging and collaborating in the World Wide Web.
In conclusion, the digital world, where bits and bytes are all equal, have broken cultural heritage boundaries.
Downloads
References
Bawden, D. 2007. “Organised Complexity, Meaning and Understanding: An Approach to a Unified View of Information for Information Science.”Aslib Proceedings59(4/5): 307–27.
Bermes, Emmanuelle. 2011. “Convergence et Interopérabilité : L’apport Du Web de Données (Convergence and Interoperability: A Linked Data Perspective).”In Puerto Rico: IFLA. http://conference.ifla.org/ifla77.
Bierbaum, E G. 2000. Museum Librarianship. 2nd ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Borges, L C, and A M D Silva. 2019. “Crowdsourcing: An Intelligent and Creative Way for Information Access. .”In ed. CRC Press/Balkema. Londoin.
Capurro, R, and B HØJRLAND. 2003. “The Concept of Information.”Annual Review of Information Science and Technology37(1): 343–411.
Carr, David. 2000. “IN THE CONTEXTS OF THE POSSIBLE: LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS AS INCENDIARY CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS.”
Le Coadic, Y F. 1997. “Science de l’information.”In Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de l’information et de La Documentation, Paris: Éditions Nathan.
Doucet, M. 2007. “Library and Archives Canada: A Case Study of a National Library, Archives, and Museum Merger.”RBM: A Journalof Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage8(1): 13–19.
Dunn, S, and M Hedges. 2014. “How the Crowd Can Surprise UC: HumanitiesCrowdsourcing and the Creation of Knowledge.”In London: Ashgate.
Dupont, C. 2007. “Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures? .”RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage8(1): 13–19.
Freitas, C, and P B Sousa. 2016. “Repositório de Informação Do Município de Ponte de Lima (RIMPL).”In eds. M F Rollo, M Ribeiro, P Meireles, and P Penteado. Lisboa: Instituto de História Contemporânea da FCSH-UNL, 80–93.
Freitas, C, P Sousa, and L M Ferros. 2015. “Integração de Sistemas de Informação de Arquivos, Bibliotecas e Museus: Estudo de Caso Do Município de Ponte de Lima.”In Actas 12oCongresso Nacional de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas –Ligar. Transformar. Criar Valor, Évora.
Gibson, H, A Morris, and M Cleeve. 2007. “Links between Libraries and Museums: Investigating Museum-Library Collaboration in England and the USA.”Libri57(2): 53–64.
Hjerppe, R. 1994. “A Framework for the Description of Generalized Documents.”Advances in Knowledge Organization4: 173–80.
Hjørland, B. 2000. “Documents, Memory Institutions and Information Science.”Journal of Documentation56(1): 27–41.
Iljon, Ariane. 2018. Convergence of Archives, Libraries and Museums: A European Perspective.
Justino, A. C. F. C. S. 2013. Tese de Doutoramento em Informação e Comunicação em Plataformas Digitais (UA|UP “O Desafio Da Homogeneização Normativa Em Instituições de Memória: Proposta de Um Modelo Uniformizador e Colaborativo.”Universidade de Aveiro / Universidade do Porto.
Kirchhoff, T.;, W. Schweibenz, and J. Sieglerschimdt. 2000. “Archives, Libraries, Museums and the Spell of Ubiquitous Knowledge.”Archival science8(4): 251–66.
Martins, G O. 2020. Património Cultural: Realidade Viva. Lisboa: FundaçãoFrancisco Manuel dos Santos.
Michalko, J. 2007. “Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Achieving Scale and Relevance in the Digital Age.”Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Achieving Scale and Relevance in the Digital Age8(1).
Pinto, M A, and A M da Silva. 2005. “Um Modelo Sistémico e Integral de Gestão Da Informação Nas Organizações.”In CONTECSI -Congresso Internacional de Gestão Da Tecnologia e Sistemas de Informação, http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3085.pdf.
Roued-Cunliffe, Henriette, ed, and edCopeland, Andrea. 2017. Participatory Heritage. ed. Facet Publishing. London.
Silva, A, M. D. da, M. T. Gonçalves, H. Freitas, and A. C. Gouveia. 2020. “The Value of the Botany Archive of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) to Biodiversity Research, Crowdsourcing and History of Science Projects.”Comma2018: 117–26.
Silva, A. M. da. 2006. A Informação: Da Compreensão Do Fenómeno e Construção Do Objecto Científico. Porto: Edições Afrontamento e CETAC.COM.Silva, A M S, L C Borges, and M B Marques. 2018. “Crowdsourcing in History Projects in Local Archives of Portugal and the England: A Comparative Analyses.”In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society and Smart Cities (ISC 2018), Cambridge.
Springer, Michelle et al. 2008. Forthe Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project. http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163930482/.
Tibbo, H. R., and C. A. Lee. 2010. “Convergence through Capabilities: Digital Curation Education for Libraries, Archives and Museums.”Archiving 2010: Final Program and Proceedings.
Timms, K. 2009. “New Partnerships for Old Sibling Rivals: The Development of Integrated Access Systems for the Holdings of Archives, Libraries, and Museums.”Archivaria68(Fall)): 67–95.
Trant, Jennifer. 2009. “Emerging Convergence? Thoughts on Museums, Archives, Libraries, and Professional Training.”Museum Management and Curatorship24(4): 369–87.
United Nations. 2015. Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNRIC. 2016. GuiaSobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável: 17 Objetivos Para Transformar o Nosso Mundo. ed. Centro de Informação Regional das Nações Unidas para a Europa Ocidental. Portugal.
Waibel, Günter, and Ricky Erway. 2009. Think Global, Act Local-Library, Archive and Museum Collaboration Reproduction of Substantial Portions of This Publication Must Contain the OCLC Copyright Notice. http://www.oclc.org/.
Wythe, D. 2007. “New Technologies and the Convergence of Libraries, Archives, and Museums.”RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage8(1).
Copyright (c) 2020 Ana Margarida Dias da Silva, Leonor Calvão Borges
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in the JDMI agree to the following terms:
-
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. This licensing allows others to share the work with no changes and acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal, but not for commercial use.
-
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
-
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after publication, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
Copyrights to illustrations published in the journal remain with their current copyright holders.
It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to quote from copyright sources.
Any fees required to obtain illustrations or to secure copyright permissions are the responsibility of authors.
Additional Information
All correspondence concerning contributions, books and other review material should be sent to: deca-jdmi@ua.pt
