Museums in a Digital Age / edited by Ross Parry

Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The practice of digital heritage and the heritage of digital practice / Ross Parry -- Part one. Information: data, structure and meaning: Introduction to part one / Ross Parry ; 2. A brief history of museum computerization / David Williams ; 3. The changing role of information professionals in museums / Andrew Roberts ; 4. What is information in the museum context? / Elizabeth Orna and Charles Pettitt ; 5. The world of (almost) unique objects / Robert Chenhall and David Vance ; 6. Standards for networked cultural heritage / David Bearman ; 7. Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich ; 8. The museum as information utility / George F. Macdonald and Stephen Alsford ; 9. Museum collections, documentation and shifting knowledge paradigms / Fiona Cameron ; 10. Semantic dissonance: do we need (and do we understand) the semantic web? / Ross Parry, Nick Poole and Jon Pratty ; 11 Building a universal digital memory / Pierre Lévy -- Part two. Space: visits, virtuality and distance: Introduction to part two / Ross Parry ; 12. On the origins of the virtual museum / Erkki Huhtamo ; 13. From Malraux's imaginary museum to the virtual museum / Antonio M. Battro ; 14. Virtual spaces and museums / Andrea Bandelli ; 15. The virtual visit: towards a new concept for the electronic science centre / Roland Jackson ; 16. Empowering the remote visitor: supporting social museum experiences among local and remote visitors / Areti Galani and Matthew Chalmers ; 17. Museums outside walls: mobile phones and the museum in the everyday / Konstantinos Arvanitis -- Part three. Acces: ability, usability and connectivity: Introduction to part three / Ross Parry ; 18. Acces to digital heritage in Africa: bridging the digital divide / Lorna Abungu ; 19. My dream of an accessible web culture for disabled people / Kevin Carey ; 20. My dream of an accessible web culture for disabled people: a re-evaluation / Kevin Carey ; 21. Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility / Brian Kelly, Lawrie Phipps and Caro Howell ; 22. Usability evaluation for museum websites / Daniel Cunliffe, Efmorphia Kritou and Douglas Tudhope ; 23. Culture as driver of innovation / Ranjit Makkuni -- Part four. Interpretation: communication, interactivity and learning: Introduction to part four / Ross Parry ; 24. The web and the unassailable voice / Peter Walsh ; 25. When the object is digital: properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning / Olivia C. Frost ; 26. Learning by doing and learning trough play: an exploration of interactivity in virtual environments for children / Maria Roussou ; 27. Interactivity and collaboration: new forms of participation in museums, galleries and science centres / Christian Heath and Dirk Vom Lehn ; 28. Visitors' use of computer exhibits: findings from five gruelling years of watching visitors getting it wrong / Ben Gammon -- Part five. Object: authenticity, authority and trust: Introduction to part five / Ross Parry ; 29. Museums and virtuality / Klaus Müller ; 30. When all you've got is 'The Real Thing': museums and authenticity in the networked world / Jennifer Trant ; 31. Authenticity and integrity in the digital environment: and exploratory analysis of the central role of trust / Clifford Lynch ; 32. Why museums matter / Marc Pachter ; 33. Defining the problem of our vanishing memory: background, current status, models for resolution / Peter Lyman and Howard Besser ; 34. Curating new media / Matthew Gansallo -- Part six. Delivery: production, evaluation and sustainability: Introduction to part six / Ross Parry ; 35. Managing new technology projects in museums and galleries / Matthew Stiff ; 36. Rationale for digitization and preservation / Paul Conway ; 37. 'Speaking for themselves': new media and 'Making the modern world' / Frank Colson and Jean Colson ; 38. The evaluation of museum multimedia applications: lessons from research / Maria Economou ; 39. A survey on digital cultural heritage initiatives and their sustainability concerns / Diane M. Zorich -- Part seven. Futures: priorities, approaches and aspirations: Introduction to part seven / Ross Parry ; 40. Making the total museum possible / Tomislav Sola ; 41. Museums in the Information Era: cultural connectors of time and space / Manuel Castells ; 42. The shape of things to come: museums in the technological landscape / Simon J. Knell ; 43. Digital heritage and the rise of theory in museum computing / Ross Parry