There is no single publication that covers the entire syllabus (so maybe I should get around to writing one myself some day). The technical core of the course is largely covered by the topics presented in the following free reports which, therefore, students may wish to download and read:

DigiCult Technology Watch Report 1: New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector [PDF] [HTML]

DigiCult Technology Watch Report 2: Emerging Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector [PDF] [HTML]

DigiCult Technology Watch Report 3: Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector [PDF]

Digicult Thematic Issue 1: Integrity and Authenticity of Digital Objects, August 2002 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 2: Digital Asset Management Systems for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector, December 2002 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 3: Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources, May 2003 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 4: Learning Objects from Cultural and Scientific Heritage Resources, October 2003 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 5: Virtual Communities and Collaboration, January 2004 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 6: Resource Discovery Technologies for the Heritage Sector, June 2004 [PDF] [HTML]

Digicult Thematic Issue 7: The Future Digital Heritage Space, December 2004 [PDF] [HTML]

DigiCult Special Issue: Digital Collections and the Management of Knowledge [PDF] [HTML]

All texts are viewable at, and freely downloadable as PDFs from, http://www.digicult.info

Recommended further reading:

Al-Qawasmi, J., Chiuini, M., & El-Hakim, S. (eds.) (2008). Digital Media and Its Applications in Cultural Heritage (Vol. 1). Amman, Jordan: Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) Publications. ISBN: 9957860259. [Amazon]

Arnold, K. (2006). Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 075460506X. [Amazon]

Baltsavias, M., Armin Gruen, A., van Gool, L. (eds.) (2005). Recording, Modelling and Visualization of Cultural Heritage. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN: 041539208X. [Amazon]

Bennett, T. (1995). The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415053889. [Amazon]

Brown, M.F. (2006). Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0674016335. [Amazon]

Callery, B.G. (2005). Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press Inc. ISBN: 0789029340. [Amazon]

Cameron, F & Kenderdine, S. (eds) (2007). Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN: 0262033534. [Amazon]

Cohen, D. & Rosenweig, 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]

Crane, S.A. (2000). Museums and Memory. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0804735654. [Amazon]

D'Acquisto, L. (2006). Learning on Display: Student-Created Museums That Build Understanding. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. ISBN: 1416602852. [Amazon]

Elwazani, S., Malhis, S., & Al-Qawasmi, J. (eds.) (2008). Digital Media and Its Applications in Cultural Heritage (Vol. 2). Amman, Jordan: Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) Publications. ISBN: 9957860275. [Amazon]

Findlen, P. (2008). A Fragmentary Past: The Making of Museums and the Making of the Renaissance. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0804732299. [Amazon]

Glaser, J.R. (1996). Museums: A Place to Work. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415127246. [Amazon]

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1992). Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415070317. [Amazon]

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (ed.) (1997). Cultural Diversity: Developing Museum Audiences in Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press. ISBN: 071852411X. [Amazon]

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (2000). Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415086337. [Amazon]

Impey, O. & MacGregor, A. (eds.) (1985). The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199521085. [Amazon]

Jones-Garmil, K. (1997). The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums. ISBN: 0931201365. [Amazon]

Karp, I. & Lavine, S.D. (1991). Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN-10: 1560980214. [Amazon]

Karp, I., Kreamer, C. M, & Lavine, S.D. (1992). Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN: 156098189X. [Amazon]

Karp, I., Kratz, C.A., & Szwaja, L. (eds.) (2007). Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0822338947. [Amazon]

Keene, S. (1998). Digital Collections: Museums and the Information Age. London: Butterworth Heinemann. ISBN: 0750634561. [Amazon]

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. (1998). Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN: 0520209664 [Amazon]

Littler, J. & Naidoo, R. (eds.) (2005) The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of ‘Race’. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415322111. [Amazon]

MacDonald, S. (ed.) (2006). A Companion to Museum Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 1405108398. [Amazon]

Monod, E. & Klein, H. (2005). ‘From e-Heritage Systems to Interpretive Archaeology Systems’, in European Conference in Information Systems, ECIS 2005, Regensburg, Germany.

Mulrenin, A.M. (ed.) (2002). The DigiCULT Report. Technological landscapes for tomorrow’s cultural economy: Unlocking the value of cultural heritage. Luxembourg: European Commission, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. ISBN:9282851893.

Parry, R. (2007). Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415353882. [Amazon]

Pearce, S. (ed.) (1994). Interpreting Objects and Collections. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415112893. [Amazon]

Sandell, R. (2007). Museums, Prejudice, and the Reframing of Difference. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415367492. [Amazon]

Simpson, M.G. (1996). Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415067863. [Amazon]

Smith, L.J. (2006). Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN: 0415318335. [Amazon]

Smith, L.J. (2006). The Uses of Heritage. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN: 0415318319. [Amazon]

Stock, O. & Zancanaro, M. (eds). (2007). Peach: Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits. London: Springer. ISBN: 3540687548. [Amazon]

Walsh, K. (1992). The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN: 0415079446.[Amazon]