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Recoding the Museum Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)

Recoding the Museum By Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)

Recoding the Museum by Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)


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Through an historical approach, Ross Parry excavates cultural assumptions and values that provide the basis of museum information management and display, and that are still used to this day.

Recoding the Museum Summary

Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change by Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)

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 of professional and theoretical sources, this book offers one of the first substantial histories of museum computing. Its ambitious narrative attempts to explain a series of essential tensions between curatorship and the digital realm.

Ultimately, it reveals how through the emergence of standards, increased coordination, and celebration (rather than fearing) of the 'virtual', the sector has experienced a broadening of participation, a widening of creative horizons and, ultimately, has helped to define a new cultural role for museums. Having confronted and understood its past, what emerges is a museum transformed - rescripted, re calibrated, rewritten, reorganised.

About Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)

Ross Parry

Table of Contents

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

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GOR005902828
9780415353885
0415353882
Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change by Ross Parry (University of Leicester, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20071116
190
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