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  • Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects

    Edited by Emiline Smith, Summer Austin ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book on open-source data and the trade in cultural heritage is foundational for object biography, provenance research studies, and social science methodological education.Interest in studying the (illicit) trade in cultural objects, as well questions around ownership, access and protection, have grown in recent years. However, this interdisciplinary field requires a range of ... Read more

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  • Institutionalising fragility

    Entrepreneurship in cultural organisations

    by Massimiliano Tarantino, Yesim Tonga Uriarte, Marta Equi Pierazzini, Simone Autera, Paola Dubini ...
    Series Book 9 - Quaderni
    The sustainability of cultural organisations and their positioning in contemporary society are increasingly relevant topics among practitioners and scholars interested in the cultural field. Foundations, research centers, but also libraries and museums are under pressure to seek a balance between tradition and new challenges of modernity. Therefore, they need to rethink their role by developing ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • History through material culture

    by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair ...
    Series Book 1 - IHR Research Guides
    History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Museums in a Digital Age

    Edited by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.However, ‘digital heritage’ (as an area of practice ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Information Science

    The Basics

    by Judith Pintar, David Hopping ...
    Series series The Basics
    Information Science: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the multifaceted field of Information Science (IS).Inviting readers to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations, the book begins by considering the complexities of the term "information" and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different area within IS, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Digital Archives and Collections

    Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

    by Katja Müller ...
    Series Book 11 - Anthropology of Media
    Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born ... Read more

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  • Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

    Edited by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Neil Forbes, Antonella Fresa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of ... Read more

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  • Art Crime and its Prevention

    A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals

    Edited by Arthur Tompkins ...
    Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds – from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary gallerist, dealer, art-market student or collector.Written by a range of international experts, the book's territory is broad and includes advice on how to secure art in galleries and private collections; how ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is Digital History?

    by Hannu Salmi ...
    Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past.Hannu Salmi provides the most compelling introduction to digital history to date. Beginning with an examination of the origins of the digital study ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Antiquities

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Maxwell L. Anderson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art historian ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Linguanomics

    What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism?

    by Dr Gabrielle Hogan-Brun ...
    Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale. Linguanomics explains this multilingualism in a material, economic and cultural sense.What is the effect of this multilingualism on society, organizations and individuals? What are the economic benefits and drawbacks? Should we invest in language skills? Should there be ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Recoding the Museum

    Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

    by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD