Managing Digital Cultural Objects

ISBN-13: 9781856049412 / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Opis

This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving image. Bringing together chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book will provide an overview of the theoretical and academic aspects of digital cultural documentation and the state of the art. Case studies of digitization projects drawn from practitioners within libraries and information organisations will showcase both technical and more strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management and sustainability. Key topics covered include: Semiotics of digital cultural objects: images, music and film Digital cultural object retrieval: semantic and emotional indexing Semantic Web, FRBR, intertextuality and cultural objects Photo retrieval on the web: Flickr, Facebook and other social networking sites Classical music retrieval on the web Indie music retrieval on the web: Spotify, social tagging, recommender sites Film retrieval on the web: YouTube, social tagging and sharing, IMDb, indexing, controlled vocabulary. Readership: LIS professionals, researchers and students.

Spis treści

Introduction - Pauline Rafferty and Allen Foster Part 1: Analysis and retrieval of digital cultural objects 1. Managing, searching and finding digital cultural objects: putting it in context - Pauline Rafferty 2. Data modelling for analysis, discovery and retrieval - Sarah Higgins 3. The digital traces of user-generated content: how social media data may become the historical sources of the future - Katrin Weller Part 2: Digitization projects in libraries, archives and museums: case-studies 4. Visual digital humanities: using image data to derive approximate metadata - H. M. Dee, L. M. Hughes, G. L. Roderick and A. D. Brown 5. Managing and preserving digital collections at the british library - Maureen Pennock and Michael Day 6. Digital preservation of audio content - Will Prentice Part 3: Social networking and digital cultural objects 7. Photos: Flickr, Facebook and other social networking sites - Corinne Jorgensen 8. Searching and creating affinities in a web music collections - Nicola Orio 9. Film retrieval on the web: sharing, naming, access and discovery - Katherine La Barre and Rosa Ines de Novais Cordeiro

O autorze

Allen Foster, Rafferty Pauline