Cultural heritage information : access and management

Featuring contributions by 17 leading academics from around the world, this volume provides an overview of the various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information.

• List of figures and tables p. vii
• Contributors p. ix
• Preface p. xv Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven
• 1 Managing digital cultural heritage information p. 1 Gobinda Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven
• 2 Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-hisotry and future directions) p. 13 Chris Alen Sula
• 3 Management of Cultural heritage information: policies and practices p. 37 Gobinda Chowdhury
• 4 Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies p. 63 Melissa Terras
• 5 Metadata in cultural contexts-from manga to digital archives in a linked open data environment p. 89 Shigeo Sugimoto and Mitsuharu Nagamori and Tetsuya Mihara and Tsunagu Honma
• 6 Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture p. 113 Lighton Phiri and Hussenin Suleman
• 7 Cultural heritage information: users and usability p. 135 Sudatta Chowdhury
• 8 A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems p. 153 Juliane Stiller and Vivien Petras
• 9 Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries p. 177 Ali Shiri
• 10 Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials p. 197 Paul Clough and Paula Goodale and Mark Hall and Mark Stevenson
• 11 Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues p. 221 Gobinda Chowdhury
• Index p. 247