Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (short: GLAMs) around the globe are beginning
to explore the potential of crowdsourcing, ie outsourcing specific activities to a community …

An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural
preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era …

Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is
increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts …

The museum today faces complex questions of definition, representation, ethics, aspiration
and economic survival. Alongside this we see burgeoning use of an array of new media …

Crowdsourcing, or “obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number
of people,” is becoming known for the impressive productivity of projects that ask the public …

This paper advocates the necessity of developing a pragmatic alternative to the dominant
custodial theorization of digital curation as an “umbrella concept for digital preservation, data …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to dissect key issues and debates in digital humanities,
an emerging field of theory and practice. Digital humanities stands greatly to impact the …

As the crowdsourcing approach is increasingly being used for digitizing cultural heritage
artifacts, there is a rising need for volunteer engagement in such collaborative digital …

This thesis examines the impact of the democratic promises of Internet communication
technologies, social, and participatory media on the practice of public archaeology. It is …

This article argues that digital heritage initiatives, where cultural heritage institutions offer
more interactive possibilities with their digital collections through multimodal platforms and …