
Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities
Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections
Description
Key Features
- Theoretical and practical perspectives on digital curation in the digital humanities and history
- In-depth study of the role of social media and a social curation ecosystem
- The role of hypertextuality and information architecture in digital curation
- Study of collaboration and organizational dimensions in digital curation
- Reviews of important web tools in digital humanities
Readership
Archivists, historians, digital humanists, educators (including those teaching online), digital curators, special collection librarians, and project managers and administrators at heritage institutions
Table of Contents
1. Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context
- Foundational definitions for curation
- Digital curation
- Digital preservation
- Lifecycle of digital contents
- Levels of curation
- Digital humanities data curation
- Using linked open data in digital curation
- Conclusion
2. Archives and special collections in the digital humanities
- Defining the digital humanities
- Characteristics of Digital Humanities
- Discursive concerns in the digital humanities
- The role of archives in the digital humanities
- Archives and the linguistic turn
- Digital humanities projects involving archives and libraries
- Digital humanities project descriptions
- Digital humanities curation in the classroom
- Conclusion
3. Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage
- Defining digital history
- Paradigm shifts in archival curation
- Digital historiography and archives
- Digital historical representations
- Historical hypertext
- Digital history data curation
- Digital historiography and digital curation
- Conclusion
4. Information architecture and hypertextuality: concerns for digital curation
- Defining information architecture
- Digital curation of hypertextual content
- Information architecture and hypertextuality
- Spatial, temporal, and ontological dimensions in information architecture
- Localized approaches at the Ward M. Canaday Center for special collections
- Information architecture for online and hybrid courses in digital humanities
- Conclusion
5. Digital curation lifecycle in practice
- Overview of the DCC curation lifecycle model
- Conceptualization and the master plan
- Curation of data sets and digital objects
- Full lifecycle actions
- Preservation planning
- Preservation and conservation in the curation lifecycle
- Description and representation information
- Community watch and participation
- Sequential actions
- Occasional actions
- Conclusion
6. Organizational dimensions of digital curation
- Knowledge management in digital curation
- Knowledge architectures for digital curation
- Knowledge transfer in digital curation
- Organizational contexts for knowledge architectures
- Conclusion
7. Social networks’ impact on digital curation
- Cross-curation, social curation ecosystems, and cultural heritage
- Hypertextuality and ontologies in social media
- Social network theory, hypertextuality, and cross-curation
- Social networking and Web 2.0 tools in archives
- The social curation ecosystem in Toledo’s Attic
- Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 182
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2015
- Published: April 11, 2015
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780081001783
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081001431
About the Author
Arjun Sabharwal
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