Digital Heritage

Description

Through knowledge and understanding, students will be able to: • Assess the different methodology of technology to use to study and document cultural heritage • Compare and contrast the discourse between disciplines as art, archaeology, and information technology • Use digital heritage to synthesize digital data in cultural heritage research • Create an online exhibition • Curate an online exhibition • Use digital methods such as photography and scanning efficiently • Use different software programs to design online exhibitions • Realise the power of social media’s interaction with cultural heritage • Use social media effectively Through intellectual skills, students will be able to: • Develop a critical perspective on how information technology has changed how cultural heritage is being studied, written, contested, consumed, preserved and accessed. • Critique the potential of digital heritage in cultural heritage research • Decide which technological method to use based on the result needed to exhibit • Become aware of the discourse of ownership, copyrights, accessibility and contesting heritage in digital heritage applications Through professional and practical skills, students will be able to: • Write for the digital media • Compose an online exhibition, a Facebook page, a twitter account or a blog on a topic related to cultural heritage • Scan documents and old photographs • Use photoshop for simple photographs cleaning Through general and transferable skills, students will be able to: • Write about cultural heritage for a wider public • Digitize simple archival documents • Communicate efficiently using media

Program

Egyptian Archaeology

Objectives

• This course aims at introducing students to the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of digital heritage. Information Technology is changing how cultural heritage is studied and accessed today. The focus will be on the consequences of understanding the past through making the heritage accessible beyond the site and the museum. Digital heritage not only provides accessibility, but also re-engages communities, contests heritage, and consumes heritage differently through the social media, websites and mobile applications. The course aims at overviewing the state of digital heritage since the adoption of the ‘Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage’ in 2003 and how this has interacted with studying the cultural heritage. The course will also thoroughly introduce methods for digitizing archives, museums, and archaeological sites. Debates on accessibility, copyrights, social media use will take place. The course will also work on practical skills for digital heritage, where students will be asked to work with a collection of documents and photographs to create and curate an online exhibition.