1st Edition
Recoding the Museum Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change
By Ross Parry
Copyright 2007
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?
And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?
Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?
Drawing upon an impressive range... Read more
1. Museum/Computer: a history of disconnect? 2. From the ‘day book’ to the ‘data bank’: the beginnings of museum computing 3. Disaggregating the collection 4. Recalibrating authenticity 5. Rescripting the visit 6. Rewriting the narrative 7. Reorganising production 8. Computers and compatibility
Biography
Ross Parry
