Recoding the Museum

Recoding the Museum

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Parry Ross
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9780415353885
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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 and theoretical sources, this book offers one of the first substantial histories of museum computing. Its ambitious narrative attempts to explain a series of essential tensions between curatorship and the digital realm.

Ultimately, it reveals how through the emergence of standards, increased coordination, and celebration (rather than fearing) of the ‘virtual’, the sector has experienced a broadening of participation, a widening of creative horizons and, ultimately, has helped to define a new cultural role for museums. Having confronted and understood its past, what emerges is a museum transformed – rescripted, re calibrated, rewritten, reorganised.

EAN 9780415353885
ISBN 0415353882
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date November 16, 2007
Pages 190
Language English
Dimensions 246 x 174
Country United Kingdom
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Parry Ross
Series Museum Meanings