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Digital Heritageby Lindsay MacDonald
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 128.00In the fields of documentation and conservation of cultural heritage assets, there is a constant need for higher quality records and better analytical tools for extracting information about the condition of artefacts. Digital photography and digital image processing provide these capabilities, and recent technological advances in both fields promise new levels of performance for the capture and understanding of colour images. This inter-disciplinary book covers the imaging of decorated surfaces in historical buildings and the digitisation of documents, paintings and objects in museums and galleries, and shows how user requirements can be met by application of powerful digital imaging techniques. Numerous case studies illustrate the methods.... more...
What are Archives?by Louise Craven
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95In the UK, professional texts on archives concentrate on the how, not the why, of professional archival work. At the same time, studies of the theoretical role of the archive and the text are undertaken in other academic disciplines and there is an established forum for the discussion of related issues. This book invites the archivist to that arena of discussion and encourages archivists to step away from the practicalities of keeping archives, and to consider what it is they actually do in the cultural context of the early 21st century. more...
Convergence Media Historyby Janet Staiger; Sabine Hake
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 37.95Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single mediumincluding film, television, advertising, sound recording, new media, and moreand connects that specific... more...
Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard Universityby Barbara A. Burg; Richard Newman; Elizabeth E. Sandager
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 244.00This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums. An invaluable source for academic research, the guide demonstrates the breadth, depth, range, and nature of Harvard's collection of primary African and Afriecan American materials, which includes artifacts, diaries/letters, manuscripts, maps, oral histories, photographs, political posters, sheet music, and works of art. more...
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