The question of whether or not we should attempt to recreate the past which has been destroyed is a thorny one. Of course, the question of re-creation revolves around artefacts that have been damaged or […]
The Importance of Metadata Standards
Metadata is important for several reasons, namely interoperability, the clear transmission of information associated with a document or object, making it possible to sort through and find the objects associated with a particular subject, ensuring […]
The Limits of Digitisation
Elizabeth Edwards in ‘Material beings: objecthood and ethnographic photographs’ argues that the meaning of a photograph is enhanced by the form in which it is presented (67). For her, the photograph is itself an object as […]
Response to Readings 10 October 2016
Charles Cronin’s paper ‘Possession is 99% of the Law: 3D Printing, Public Domain Cultural Artifacts and Copyright’ provides an in-depth discussion of existing copyright issues around photographs and the status of 3D replicas of cultural […]