Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions

Computing in the arts, humanities and heritage sectors is becoming more pervasive, and increasingly sophisticated technologies are being developed to capture, explore, and disseminate information regarding artefacts, historical knowledge, and cultural inheritance. Conferences and symposia are central to the complex industry which has built up around using computational techniques to facilitate novel research and increased public access to cultural heritage. These are essential for fostering crossfertilisation of knowledge and expertise between “memory institutions” such as libraries, archives, museums, and archaeological and historic sites; academic disciplines such as history, archaeology, and art history; and practitioners in the computer industry. Often, proceedings of these conferences appear online, or selected papers are published in journals, but rarely is a snapshot of conference papers from across different years and disciplines brought together in a comprehensive publication to give a panorama of the diverse research explored across the “multiplicative relationship: culture x technology” (pg. 2).