Research in Information Studies
Research in Information Studies

Author: W. Bernard Lukenbill

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-04-11

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 146917961X

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Research is integrated into the whole fabric of modern-day society and culture. It affects our lives in so many waysfrom finding a job to knowing how to manage our health. Information studies designed to understand this array of information encompasses a wide expanse of disciplines. Many of these areas draw their philosophical and research bases from a mixture of disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities. This book takes a holistic view of these diverse areas and shows how they are united through the common thread of enhancing our knowledge of and understanding the world in which we all live.

Museum Informatics
Museum Informatics

Author: Paul F. Marty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1135572054

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Museum Informatics explores the sociotechnical issues that arise when people, information, and technology interact in museums. It is designed specifically to address the many challenges faced by museums, museum professionals, and museum visitors in the information society. It examines not only applications of new technologies in museums, but how advances in information science and technology have changed the very nature of museums, both what it is to work in one, and what it is to visit one. To explore these issues, Museum Informatics offers a selection of contributed chapters, written by leading museum researchers and practitioners, each covering significant themes or concepts fundamental to the study of museum informatics and providing practical examples and detailed case studies useful for museum researchers and professionals. In this way, Museum Informatics offers a fresh perspective on the sociotechnical interactions that occur between people, information, and technology in museums, presented in a format accessible to multiple audiences, including researchers, students, museum professionals, and museum visitors.

A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism
A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism

Author: Kiran A. Shinde

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-03-14

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1803928743

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Incisive and interdisciplinary, this Research Agenda broaches topics that have been under-researched within religious tourism, including: place attachment and marketing; memory and modification of sacred landscapes for tourism needs; the darker sides of religious tourism; multi-stakeholder governance; mission-trips; and allied forms of tourism.

Introduction to Vocabularies
Introduction to Vocabularies

Author: Elisa Lanzi

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1999-02-11

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0892365447

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Digital networking will make our global cultural heritage accessible to a widespread audience. To reach this audience, it is essential to create and employ terminology that brings consistency to the language used in information retrieval contexts. Introduction to Vocabularies highlights the crucial role that controlled vocabularies play in the description, cataloging, or documentation of cultural heritage information. The book stresses the importance of standards and the role of authority work in creating and managing vocabularies that would ensure integrated access. The book concludes with descriptions of three vocabulary databases developed by the Getty Information Institute. The Introduction to series acquaints professionals and students with the complex issues and technologies in the production, management, and dissemination of cultural heritage information resources.

Sublime Economy
Sublime Economy

Author: Jack Amariglio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-11-25

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1134002912

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Bringing together economists, literary and art critics, philosophers, sociologists, and others, this book fosters the emergence of a rich set of concerns about the intersections of art, aesthetics, and economics.

Guidance on Inventory and Documentation of the Cultural Heritage
Guidance on Inventory and Documentation of the Cultural Heritage

Author: John Bold

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9789287165572

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Improved heritage management and the inclusion of heritage in planning and sustainable development processes necessitate inventory and documentation. More than mere scientific tools recommended in international agreements, inventory and documentation play a strategic role. The complexity of the heritage items that now have to be inventoried and their interaction with our everyday living environment require the clear definition and harmonisation of practices at the European level. Through its work in the 1960s, the Council of Europe helped to lay the methodological bases for inventorying architectural, archaeological and movable heritage. The efforts to systematise the process came in answer to the broadening meaning of heritage, and today new considerations lead us to address such notions as heritage groups. The guidelines proposed in this book reflect the work done so far and provide a basis for future research. It is part of a series produced under the Technical Co-operation and Assistance Programme to present the experience derived from the projects implemented by the Council of Europe.

Migrating Heritage
Migrating Heritage

Author: Perla Innocenti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1317096495

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Bringing together an international forum of experts, this book looks at how museums, libraries and further public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalisation, mobility and migration across Europe. It puts forward examples of innovative practice and policies that reflect these challenges, looking at issues such as how cultural institutions present themselves to and interact with multicultural audiences, how to support networking across European institutions, and share practice in core activities such as archiving interpreting and exhibiting artefacts. Academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions and policymakers explore theoretical and practical approaches from a range of different disciplines such as museum and cultural heritage studies, cultural memory studies, social anthropology, sociology of organizations, cultural heritage management and cultural heritage informatics.

On Verbal/visual Representation
On Verbal/visual Representation

Author: Martin Heusser

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789042018372

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The essays in this collection are a selection of the papers given at the Fifth International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Claremont, CA, 14-20 March, 1999.

Historical Information Science
Historical Information Science

Author: Lawrence J. McCrank

Publisher: Information Today, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1216

ISBN-13: 9781573870719

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Historical Information Science is an extensive review and bibliographic essay, backed by almost 6,000 citations, detailing developments in information technology since the advent of personal computers and the convergence of several social science and humanities disciplines in historical computing. Its focus is on the access, preservation, and analysis of historical information (primarily in electronic form) and the relationships between new methodology and instructional media, techniques, and research trends in library special collections, digital libraries, data archives, and museums.