Fiona Cameron & Sarah Kcndcrdinc (eds), Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (Boston: MIT Press, 2007), 465 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-03353-4 (pbk), US$40.00.

摘要

This volume provides an important milestone in the history of attempts to theorize digital cultural heritage for museums and educational settings. This book's target audience is students and professionals in the field of cultural preservation and management. The cover presents a minimal collage of historical images tracing the development of cataloguing systems and museum archives. The editors have organized an extensive and diverse scries of essays in this volume to assist scholars in the mapping of critical theory related to digital media in the 'research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage'. The 22 essays are divided into three categories that cover object morphologies, knowledge management systems and the impact of virtual cultural heritage. The foreword suggests that this book is an important link to the Media in Transition series which aims to explore older periods of media change as well as 'our own digital age'. Other later titles in this MIT Press scries include: Rethinking Media Change, Democracy and New Media, New Media 1740-1915 and Neo Baroque Aesthetics.