Digital Cultural Heritage

A forum for exploring the past, present and future of digital cultural heritage, both digitised and born-digital.

Digital cultural heritage exists in many contexts, from large museum, library and archive collections to other forms of digital content generated by individuals, communities, philanthropic organisations and commercial entities. It might be a single digital artwork, a collection of thousands of digitised images, an archive of billions of web pages, a 3D model, a computer game or even an item that is only represented by metadata.

This transdisciplinary, open access series of short-form books interrogates digital cultural heritage in all its forms, focusing on the key themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality. It considers histories of digitisation; the unequal and uneven heritagisation of new forms of cultural data; how individuals and institutions can adapt their practice and processes to exploit digital cultural heritage effectively; how digital cultural heritage is communicated to wider publics; skills for working with digital archives and collections; the politics and economics of digitisation; the values encoded in the digitised and born-digital; and how digital cultural heritage is embedded in teaching and learning practice.

Series Editors

Dr Eirini Goudarouli, Head of Research, The National Archives, UK; Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, Research Associate in Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK; Professor Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Editorial Advisory Board

Georgia Angelaki, Europeana, National Documentation Centre, Greece; Dorothy Berry, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Eric Brasil, University for the International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, Brazil; Beatrice Cannelli, Bodleian Libraries, UK; Patricia Falcao, Tate, UK; Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden; Órla Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland; Sara Namusoga-Kaale, Makerere University, Uganda; Julianne Nyhan, University College London, UK; James Smithies, The Australian National University, Australia; John Stack, The National Gallery, UK; Lyneise Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Founder, Vera Collaborative, USA; Chiara Zuanni, University of Graz, Austria