An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is
increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts …

Digital museums are replacing traditional museums to inspire individual growth and promote
culture exchange and society enrichment. However, the benefits of using the traditional …

This article presents a comparative study of how Canadian First Nations and New Zealand
Māori peoples have employed digital technologies in the recording, reproduction, promotion …

Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating
content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of “Museum 2.0” for …

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to the Pitt Rivers
Museum and the British Museum to work with several hundred heritage treasures. Featuring …

This chapter argues that very particular definitions of accessibility, democratization and the
social have been imported into museums inside of digital media and that the task of the …

The networking of knowledge in the Internet age is calling into question the relationship
between experts and non‐experts in the development, preservation, and communication of …

Purpose The study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of search
interfaces of Swedish online museum collections, focussing on search functionalities with …

This article provides an overview of the literature related to metadata in the context of
archives and museums. This article has several goals: to outline current practices, theories …