Naslov
From object-centric towards content-centric digital collections integrating MLA resources

Autori
Šojat-Bikić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
Broader Base – Wider Perspective : Proceedings of the ICOM/CIDOC Annual Conference / Hans Regman et al. - Gothenburg : Statens museer för världskultur, 2006, 1-16

ISBN
91-85222-12-7

Skup
CIDOC Annual Conference

Mjesto i datum
Göteborg, Švedska, 10.09.2006. - 14.09.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
digital heritage; digital collection; heritage institutions

Sažetak
Museums, libraries and archives, as holders of heritage resources and users of the benefits of digital technology, enable the general public a high quality access to the heritage and at the same time preserve it for the future. Digital heritage resources are a fundamental value of the civil present and future, both in the dissemination of knowledge and in commercial use, and constitute a sound basis for the development of the digital contents industry. The EU has launched a number of projects coordinating the digitalisation of heritage contents in European countries. Representatives of European Union members adopted the Lund Principles for the digitisation of cultural and scientific contents. Thanks to digitisation processes that have become a very popular way of linking users and information, digital culture and the digital lifestyle have taken off. Every digitisation project is unique. Success will depend on strategic planning and a judicious choice of contents and the tools with which to realise these contents. The strength of it will stem from the size of the space and range of services that digital on- and off-line media can provide. But the strength also conceals weaknesses, because the space and range of the services of digital media can considerably hamper the ability of users to cope and may reduce the satisfaction in the consumption of the digital product. Digital information can easily get lost in digital noise. For the digital heritage to become information, the basic purpose of the information has to be taken into account – it must correspond to the task, the interests and the queries of a given user at a given moment. Digitisation is not and must not be an end in itself. Successful digital heritage projects start with a definition of sets of functions and sets of users. Digital collections set up relations with the real world and a real group of users, i.e., with their expectations and behaviour. Since objects from the real world that are stored in museums, libraries and archives are as a whole inaccessible to the end user, digital collections enable an expansion of the group of users and the enlargement of the usefulness of the analogue heritage source. Technical standards and guidelines for the digitisation process are well and completely defined. The guidelines for contents are much harder to define. Content shaping leads to usable and accessible digital collections that are suitable for the anticipated groups of users. This paper presents one digital collection of contents created from MLA resources: a museum collection of pictures of an artist, a library collection of historic periodicals the articles of which were illustrated with these pictures, and archival collections – phonographic and cinematic archives, as added value. A hybrid approach to the shaping of the thematic collection has been employed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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