DigitalHeritage
Canon umbrella tag for digital practice in cultural heritage: access, interpretation, collections, participation, platforms, preservation, and institutional strategy.
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Preservation Technology Podcast: Interviewing the Field as It Changed
What remains is the belief that relationships beyond the walls matter, that cross-disciplinary curiosity matters, and that experimentation matters. Technology can extend the imagination and connect people in ways that allow a shared vision to advance…
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Digital Heritage Pros Share Top Tips for Developing Strategy
Digital strategy starts less with choosing technology than with getting clear about purpose, audiences, evidence, and actual institutional needs. Drawing on advice from practitioners across the cultural sector, this piece considers visual storytelling, CRM, testing, platforms,…
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Information Technology: The less-fun, crucially important foundation of digital heritage evolution
Taking responsibility for IT initially felt like a detour from digital strategy and audience engagement. Instead, rebuilding the institution’s infrastructure revealed how deeply creative digital work depends on networks, servers, wireless access, policies, cybersecurity, and systems…
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Promote the Heritage of Your Community with Interactive Google Maps Tours
This guide shows how simple online maps can become tools for place-based interpretation, heritage tourism, volunteer coordination, and community storytelling. Using Louisiana’s Cane River region as an example, it walks through setting goals, selecting sites, adding…
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Interpretive Animations Can Activate Audience Connections to History
A partnership with University of the Arts explored whether animation could restore some of the human context that museum objects often lose behind glass and barriers. Students translated paintings, scientific history, and collection stories into short-form…
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The Strategic Linchpin: Transforming Digital Tools into an Interpretive Platform
A strategic linchpin is a technology or approach that solves several institutional problems at once and becomes a platform for further work. Drawing on examples including the Preservation Technology Podcast and later digital initiatives, this piece…