Digital Solutions in an Imperfect World: Digital Asset Management, Outreach and the Crisis in Curation
Author(s): Joel Zovar
Year: 2015
Summary
Difficult realities have set in for some cultural resource professionals. Space (and funding) to protect cultural materials is at a premium, causing some curators and archaeologists to think about heritage preservation and site conservation in new ways. Using the presenter’s experiences developing an archaeology outreach website, this paper explores how digital asset management has become a useful addition to traditional methods of artifact and site conservation in Louisiana, a state with a rich but endangered archaeological heritage. Digital asset management may offer curators and site managers some assurance and enhanced opportunities for outreach, even if it is not an ideal solution to the existing crisis in conservation.
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Digital Solutions in an Imperfect World: Digital Asset Management, Outreach and the Crisis in Curation. Joel Zovar. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 398130)
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North America - Southeast
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