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Italian Semester of Presidency of the European Union
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINERVA
Quality for cultural Web sites
Online Cultural Heritage for Research, Education
and Cultural Tourism Communities
Peter S. Samis
(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
"0s and 1s are not enough: Infusing digital heritage
Web sites with the
life of a culture"
ABSTRACT
Digitisation is a prerequisite to the preservation of cultural memory
on the World Wide Web. It is necessary but not sufficient. In order for
digitized objects to take on meaning outside of their local community,
they must be inserted into a system of relationships, a semantic web of
individual lives, cultural movements, ideas and emotions. This
presentation will analyze and critique the new Project Minerva
guidelines on quality for cultural web sites, and present examples of
web sites from around the world that act as effective tools for
communicating cultural memory in its most holistic sense.
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