The Role of Microcomputer Clubs in the Education of the Polish Youth in the 1980s: A Retrospective Analysis by Karol Król

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APIs and Researchers: The Emperor's New Clothes? by Jennifer Edmond, Vicky Garnett

“…The results of the research are not yet finalised, but the contribution is already emerging of this work to the debate about APIs being either the way forward for digital cultural heritage collections, or the Emperor’s New Clothes (or maybe a bit of both).…”
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RDA in the Fifth Information Age: entity, identity, authority / RDA v peti informacijski dobi: entiteta, identiteta, kontrola by Gordon Dunsire

“…A person who contributes to social media is an agent who creates digital cultural artefacts. The internet of things, of personal devices for the capture, creation, transmission, and output of information means everyone is potentially an author, a publisher, a distributor, with a profound impact on traditional methods of authority control. …”
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Embodied sociotechnical imaginaries: how donor-conceived people imagine identity, family and reprodigital futures beyond regulation by Giselle Newton, Giselle Newton, Kerryn Drysdale, Christy E. Newman

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Networked creativity: ethnographic perspectives on chipmusic by Polymeropoulou, M

“…The primary argument is that creativity in chipmusic worlds is networked, meaning that it is dispersed across various activities that are labelled as creative: chipmusic-making, technology-hacking practices that underpin the music, digital cultural practices such as use of social media, online releases, crowdsourcing, staged and screened performances, and any other activity related to chipmusic. …”

A Mismatched Group of Items That I Would Not Find Particularly Interesting: Challenges and Opportunities with Digital Exhibits and Collections Labels by Mikala Narlock, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Melissa Harden

“…Methods – The authors distributed two online surveys using a modified open card sort and reverse-category test via university electronic mailing lists to undergraduate and graduate students to learn what language they would use to identify groups of items and to test their understanding of link labels that point to digitized cultural heritage items. Results – Our study uncovered that the link terms utilized by cultural heritage institutions are not uniformly understood by our users. …”
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User eXperience (UX) Evaluation for MR Cultural Applications: The CEMEC Holographic Showcases in European Museums by Alfonsina Pagano, Eva Pietroni, Daniele Ferdani, Enzo d’Annibale

“…The results of such inquiries helped the CNR ISPC team to identify the most meaningful <b>User eXperience Analytics (UXA)</b> able to support the work of UX evaluators and UX designers to assess the efficacy of digital cultural products. Indeed, this manuscript presents UXA and tries to draft <b>a concrete and effective evaluation model</b> for future digital projects for museum contexts.…”
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Social Perception of Artificial Intelligence and Digitization of Cultural Heritage: Russian Context by Tatiana Leshkevich, Anna Motozhanets

“…The ambivalence of public perception of both artificial intelligence and digital cultural heritage is stated. The research reveals digitization frontiers, which involve three factors: the axiological factor, indicating the need for consistency between a human values system and AI development programs; the subject vector, emphasizing the role of a new type of digital heritage bearers and digital influence actors; ethical factor associated with the need to transform relations with information technologies in order to subordinate them to human reflection and comprehension. …”
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Can UNESCO Use Blockchain to Ensure the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity? A Systemic Approach That Explains the Why, How, and Difficulties of Such a Venture by Nikolaos Zoannos, Pelagia Chourdaki, Nikitas Assimakopoulos

“…What technologies must be used for storing digital cultural heritage in such a way that will preserve it over time, defying physical and technological hazards? …”
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Reviving Antiquity in the Digital Era: Digitization, Semantic Curation, and VR Exhibition of Contemporary Dresses by Aldo Xhako, Antonis Katzourakis, Theodoros Evdaimon, Emmanouil Zidianakis, Nikolaos Partarakis, Xenophon Zabulis

“…Our collaborative efforts extended to the dissemination of this digital cultural heritage, as we partnered with the national aggregator in Greece, SearchCulture, to facilitate widespread access. …”
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Semantic Segmentation for Digital Archives of Borobudur Reliefs Based on Soft-Edge Enhanced Deep Learning by Shenyu Ji, Jiao Pan, Liang Li, Kyoko Hasegawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Fadjar I. Thufail, Brahmantara, Upik Sarjiati, Satoshi Tanaka

“…Segmentation and visualization of three-dimensional digital cultural heritage are important analytical tools for the intuitive understanding of content. …”
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Formal Ontologies, Linked Data, and TEI Semantics by Fabio Ciotti, Francesca Tomasi

“…Furnishing the TEI with a semantics based on a formal ontology could have interesting outcomes: facilitating the management of and research using document collections in open and multi-standard contexts; aiding interoperability with other relevant standards in the digital cultural heritage context; and providing users with advanced formal tools to semantically define their interpretations of the texts and enable innovative computational processing. …”
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Changing the Story: The Evaluation of a Leadership Development Programme for Vulnerable and Deaf Youth in South Africa by Kirsty Bastable, Paul Cooke, Lou Harvey, Victoria Olarte, Daleen Casteleijn, Shakila Dada

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Structured like a language model: Analysing AI as an automated subject by Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, Luke Munn

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The Influence of Literature Circles Group Discussion on English Reading Ability and Reading Attitudes for Senior High School Students by Chia-Yu Cho, Chao-Chen Chen

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TikTok Use in Municipal Elections: From Candidate-Majors to Influencer-Politicians by Laura Cervi

“…Therefore, the study concludes that Ada Colau can be considered an example of a new category of celebrity politician, the «influencer-politician», suggesting that future research should dig deeper into this novel dynamic of hybridization and cross-pollination between politics and digital cultures. …”
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Application of Digital Urban Memory Transmission Model for Sustainability of Cultural Heritage by İlknur Acar Ata, Mehmet Emin Başar

“…The model can be applied in teaching, transferring and keeping the memory values carried by tangible and intangible cultural heritage values of the world. Digital Cultural Heritage Memory Model (DCHMM) aims to transfer and interpret the urban memories of the settlements to a wide audience on the web and thus raising awareness on the protection and maintenance of these values. …”
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Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin by Guanqin He, Koen Leurs, Yongjian Li

“…We extend this framework and conceptualize “motherhood 3.0” by analyzing a type of Chinese community-based intersectional performance of motherhood, gender, and labor that we see emerging in digital cultural production centered on short videos. Mediated labor within online and offline motherhood practices is informed by social, cultural, and technological factors. …”
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Immersive Narratives and Memories. The Design of Digital-Enhanced Visitor Experience by Marco Borsotti, Marco Mason

“…Any reading of design practices (Mason & Vavoula, 2021) within contemporary museums cannot ignore a paradigm shift in Digital Cultural Heritage, in which digital has become naturalized in museums’ “way of thinking.” …”
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Critical Reflections on Cinema Belgica: The Database for New Cinema History in Belgium by Vincent Ducatteeuw, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Christophe Verbruggen, Dries Moreels, Julia Noordegraaf, Sally Chambers, Pieterjan De Potter, Tamar Cachet, Nicolas Franck, Florian Deroo

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