In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives, and their public engagement value. This article…[Read more]

Emergent mobile technologies offer museum professionals new ways of engaging visitors with their collections. Museums are powerful learning environments and mobile technology can enable visitors to experience the narratives in museum objects and galleries and integrate them with their own personal reflections and interpretations. UCL‟s QRator p…[Read more]

The philospher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), was a firm supporter of innovation and enquiry. Following in his example, the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative (Transcribe Bentham) has utilised modern technology to digitise the vast collection of manuscripts written and composed by Bentham held by University College London Special…[Read more]

Since the 1970s, the gallery, library, archive, and museum sector has promoted and encouraged digitization – the conversion of analog into digital information – to
increase access to cultural heritage material through various incarnations of digital media. Indeed, it is now expected by both users and professionals that institutions
should be…[Read more]

Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives, commercial contexts and even in individuals’ homes the application of computing to cultural heritage is transforming how the human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined. An increasingly mainstream area of academic r…[Read more]

Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or…[Read more]

As Web 2.0 technologies changed the World Wide Web from a read-only to a co-creative digital experience, a range of commercial and non-commercial platforms
emerged to allow online users to contribute to discussions and use their knowledge, experience, and time to build online content. Alongside the widespread success of collaboratively produced…[Read more]

Librarians have been consciously adopting metaphors to describe library concepts since the nineteenth
century, helping us to structure our understanding of new technologies. As a profession, we have drawn extensively
on these figurative frameworks to explore issues surrounding the digital library, yet very little has been written to date
which…[Read more]

Purpose

Since its launch in 2007, research has been carried out on the popular social networking website Tumblr. The purpose of this paper is to identify published Tumblr-based research, classify it to understand approaches and methods, and provide methodological recommendations for others.

Design/methodology/approach

Research regarding…[Read more]