International Symposium on Evaluating Digital Cultural Resources (EDCR 2016)

Published: 14 September 2016

Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 December 2016

Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 December 2016
Kelvin Hall
Free - booking required

This major event will take place within the recently reopened Kelvin Hall facilities. Aimed at both researchers and cultural heritage professionals, it will provide an opportunity to bring together the main issues, questions and findings raised over the course of the network and its previous activities.

Scope and Context

Digital technologies are affecting all aspects of our lives, reshaping the way we communicate, learn, and approach the world around us. In the case of cultural institutions, digital applications are used in all key areas of operation, from documenting, interpreting and exhibiting the collections to communicating with diverse audience groups. The communication of collections information in digital form, whether an online catalogue, mobile application, museum interactive or social media exchange, increasingly affects our cultural encounters and shapes our perception of cultural organisations. Although cultural and higher education institutions around the world are heavily investing on digitisation and working to make their collections available online, we still know very little about who uses digital collections, how they interact with the associated data, and what the impacts of these digital resources are.

Aims and Questions

The symposium seeks to address this gap by bringing together interested parties from a range of disciplines (e.g. computing science, digital humanities, museology, social sciences), practices and sectors to set an agenda for research and discuss the latest developments on evaluating the use of cultural digital resources. The symposium will address:

  • Who uses digital cultural resources, where and how
  • Diverse users’ needs and expectations (i.e. from schoolchildren and families to students and researchers)
  • Impact and value of digital cultural resources
  • Ways of recording and assessing impact and value
  • Implications for policy and future strategies

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First published: 14 September 2016

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