:: Electronic publications ::

• DigiCULT
  Valuable for its three Technology Watch Reports, seven Thematic Issues, ten Newsletters ("a quarterly electronic journal presenting current news, articles, interviews, opinions, and issues related to cultural heritage and the information society"), and a Special Issue. All the following reports are freely downloadable as PDFs:
  • DigiCult Technology Watch Report 1: New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector
  • DigiCult Technology Watch Report 2: Emerging Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector
  • DigiCult Technology Watch Report 3: Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 1: Integrity and Authenticity of Digital Objects, August 2002
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 2: Digital Asset Management Systems for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector, December 2002
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 3: Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources, May 2003
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 4: Learning Objects from Cultural and Scientific Heritage Resources, October 2003
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 5: Virtual Communities and Collaboration, January 2004
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 6: Resource Discovery Technologies for the Heritage Sector, June 2004
  • Digicult Thematic Issue 7: The Future Digital Heritage Space, December 2004
  • DigiCult Special Issue: Digital Collections and the Management of Knowledge
• Ariadne
  "Ariadne is a Web magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors. [It] reports on newer JISC-funded programmes and services as well as developments in the field of Museums, Libraries and Archives within the UK and abroad."
  » http://www.ariadne.ac.uk
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.
  Full text of a book by Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig.
  "This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively. It also explores the repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital age, and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance on insuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear in a few years." Also available in paperback: Cohen, D.J. and Rosenzweig, R. (2005). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 0812219236 [Amazon]
• [JOURNAL] ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
  "ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the use of ICT in support of Cultural Heritage, including (but not limited to) the following areas:
  * On-site and remotely sensed data collection
  * Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing
  * Analytic tools to assist research on collections or artefacts
  * Digital artefact capture, representation and manipulation
  * ICT assistance in monitoring and restoration
  * Intelligent tools for digital reconstruction
  * Long term preservation of digital artefacts
  * Provenance, copyright and IPR
  * Story-telling and other forms of communication
  * Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral heritage)
  * ICT technologies in support of creating new cultural experiences or digital artefacts
  * Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
  * Applications (e.g. in Education and Tourism)"
  » http://jocch.acm.org
• [JOURNAL] Museums Journal and Museums Practice
  Both journals published by the Museums Association; full access available to subscribers only.
  » http://museumsassociation.org/publications
• [JOURNAL] museum and society
  "museum and society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide ranging interest in all issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display."
  » http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html
• [JOURNAL] International Journal of Intangible Heritage
  "The International Journal of Intangible Heritage is a refereed academic and professional English language journal dedicated to the promotion of the understanding of all aspects of the intangible heritage of the world, and the communication of research and examples of good professional practice."
  » http://www.ijih.org
• [JOURNAL] Journal of the American Association for History and Computing (JAHC)
  "The AHC aspires to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. We believe that computers and computing are rapidly changing important elements of the work of historians and students of history, constituting a major transformation in the way knowledge is created and communicated. A major goal of this journal is to help define useful standards to maximize the utility of computers in historical studies. The Journal is intended for a general audience of teachers, students, and researchers interested in the application of computers in historical studies. It is our intention to keep our readers abreast of the latest developments in the field. In addition to articles dealing with the creative application of computers to particular problems in history, we will also be reviewing relevant research in the field, appropriate software, and related Internet resources."
• [JOURNAL] atmusephere
  "... articles investigating all topics regarding the museum, gallery and heritage sector." Some blank pages, a bad link to the 'forum', and little content as yet; but worth watching.
  » http://www.atmusephere.com/Journal/2004/xxjournal_archive_x.htm
• [JOURNAL] Cultivate Interactive
  A web-based magazine funded under the European Commission's Digital heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) programme, and published between 2000 and 2003. Athough no longer publishing, the archive of back issues is still available online
  » http://www.cultivate-int.org
• [JOURNAL] International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism (IJDCET)
  "IJDCET fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the contexts of culture and tourism. Its key objective is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in, researching and contributing to the cultivation of a regional and global vision for the management of cultural content and tourism."
  » http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijdcet
• The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum
  "How can the institution of the museum become more inclusive? ... The emerging communications environment—in which image, sound and word are all made of the same stuff, and communicated using the same, digital technologies—provides new openings for museums, and new challenges. Not only are museums challenged to preserve heritage which is increasingly ‘born digital’, there is also no collectable object, no site-specific experience, which cannot be reproduced and made available to ‘visitors’ at the ends of the earth though digital means of representation. Unique challenges emerge in the realm of intellectual property, the practicalities of relating to visitors who are more diverse than ever, and exploring the communicative affordances of the ‘mutliteracies’ of digital representation."
  » http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/about.html
• International Journal of Heritage Studies.
  "The International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS) is the academic, refereed journal for scholars and practitioners from many disciplines with a common involvement in the heritage. Heritage varies from the aesthetic objct conserved in a museum to wildlife conserved within a nature reserve. Articles concern Museum Studies, Tourism Studies, Heritage Theory and History, Conservation and Restoration Techniques and Law, Cultural Studies, Interpretation and Design."