History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history
Thanks to the spread of digital archives and collections, Public Historians have access to millions of digitized items, texts, and sounds reusable for historical communication on the web. This good practice encourages the production of narrations alternative to the official ones and acknowledges the...
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| description | Thanks to the spread of digital archives and collections, Public Historians have access to millions of digitized items, texts, and sounds reusable for historical communication on the web. This good practice encourages the production of narrations alternative to the official ones and acknowledges the educational value of material culture in the historiographical context. In this essay, we analyze some international and Italian digital collections to evaluate the query process and the reuse possibilities of the catalogued materials; furthermore, we describe some graphic and digital storytelling software to create multimedial, interactive content from digitized items. Eventually, we discuss three-dimensional digital objects, the frontier of digital collections: occasionally, they are employed in projects to produce immersive virtual realities. They are rich in potentiality but also puzzling; we can overcome difficulties by cooperating with expert computer scientists and adequately managing funds to create, store and make reusable three-dimensional digital items. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a5e314e53734481b2ab8ffa846552652023-12-15T14:17:42ZengUniversity of BolognaUmanistica Digitale2532-88162023-12-0116799510.6092/issn.2532-8816/1663014985History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public historyMara CaronThanks to the spread of digital archives and collections, Public Historians have access to millions of digitized items, texts, and sounds reusable for historical communication on the web. This good practice encourages the production of narrations alternative to the official ones and acknowledges the educational value of material culture in the historiographical context. In this essay, we analyze some international and Italian digital collections to evaluate the query process and the reuse possibilities of the catalogued materials; furthermore, we describe some graphic and digital storytelling software to create multimedial, interactive content from digitized items. Eventually, we discuss three-dimensional digital objects, the frontier of digital collections: occasionally, they are employed in projects to produce immersive virtual realities. They are rich in potentiality but also puzzling; we can overcome difficulties by cooperating with expert computer scientists and adequately managing funds to create, store and make reusable three-dimensional digital items.https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/16630digital public historydigital collectionsmaterial culture studiesdigital storytellingvirtual reality |
| spellingShingle | Mara Caron History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history Umanistica Digitale digital public history digital collections material culture studies digital storytelling virtual reality |
| title | History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| title_full | History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| title_fullStr | History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| title_full_unstemmed | History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| title_short | History, objects, web. Collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| title_sort | history objects web collections and digital tools for digital public history |
| topic | digital public history digital collections material culture studies digital storytelling virtual reality |
| url | https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/16630 |
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