Can't Touch This: Digital Approaches to Materiality in Cultural Heritage - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1914481321 ISBN 13: 9781914481321

Publisher: Ubiquity Press Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

What are the implications of digital representation on intellectual property and ownership of cultural heritage? Are aspirations to preservation and accessibility in the digital space reconcilable with cultural taboos, colonized history, and cultural appropriation?

This volume brings together different perspectives from academic and practitioners of Cultural Heritage, to address current debates in the digitization and other computational study of cultural artifacts. From the tension between the materiality of cultural heritage objects and the intangible character of digital models, we explore larger issues in intellectual property, collection management, pedagogical practice, inclusion and accessibility, and the role of digital methods in decolonization and restitution debates.

The contributions include perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, addressing these questions within the study of the material culture of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

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About the Authors

Chiara Palladino is Assistant Professor of Classics at Furman University. She has a background in Classical Philology and Digital Classics and has worked in several institutions, including the University of Bonn, University of Cologne, the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, UNESP Brazil, and Tufts University. Her research focuses on the digital modeling of spatial information in premodern documents and the development of NLP pipelines for the study of ancient languages. She is involved in several DH projects, including the Open Greek and Latin Project, the Pelagios Network, the Digital Tolkien project (https: //digitaltolkien.com/), and the Ugarit Translation Alignment Editor (https: //ugarit.ialigner.com/).

Gabriel Bodard is the Reader in Digital Classics at the Digital Humanities Research Hub and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He teaches MA-level courses on digital epigraphy, digital classical philology, and digital approaches to cultural heritage, a summer schools and workshops on 3D imaging and modelling in cultural heritage, EpiDoc, and digital editing with TEI XML, and co-directs the international, highly collaborative Sunoikisis Digital Classics programme of online teaching materials. His current research includes the areas of applying digital standards to ancient epigraphic and papyrological texts and objects, Linked Open Data for geographic and prosopographical data, ethical responsibilities in 3D approaches to cultural heritage, the classical heritage of North Africa, and pedagogy and public engagement with digital methodologies and heritage objects and cultures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ubiquity Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1914481321
• ISBN 13: 9781914481321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Palladino Chiara, Bodard Gabriel