Categories. Digging Into Data > Home. Streaming cultural heritage. Within a very short space of time, ways of listening to new (and older) music have changed in the age of digital reproduction. Visions of a celestial jukebox 20 years ago promised music in the cloud for everyone. This has now become a reality, with Sweden's Spotify being the foremost example of the music industry's technological transformation. The project studies emerging streaming media cultures in general, and the music service Spotify in particular, with a bearing on the digital challenges posed by direct access to our musical heritage for archives, libraries and museums.
Rediscovering older music is a key concept for Spotify, and the company has worked to constantly expand its catalogue. The project therefore aims to investigate the effects, challenges and consequences of streaming musical heritage for the archive, library and museum sector. The project is based on specially developed research methods, which involve establishing a record company for research purposes. Call for Participation | Digital Heritage International Congress 2013. Join us in the 2013 European Capital of Culture, Marseille, this fall for the world’s largest gathering ever focused on Digital Heritage. A federated event of the leading scientific meetings in information technology for heritage, the Congress will for the first time bring VSMM, Eurographics GCH, UNESCO’s Memory of the World, Arquaeologica2.0, Archaeovirtual, Digital Art Week and special events from CAA, CIPA, Space2Place, ICOMOS ICIP, and multiple others together in one venue with a prestigious joint publication.
A ground-breaking public display of cutting edge digital heritage projects will also grace the conference venue at the new museum complex on the Marseille waterfront. The Congress covers heritage in all its forms, focusing around 5 heritage themes: Whether you are a researcher or practitioner, a cultural or digital professional, student or teacher, policy maker or vendor, we invite you to participate. The Congress’ International Scientific Committee is seeking: Caring for Digital Content Mapping International Approaches | Aileen O'Carroll. First published in 2013 by the Royal Irish Academy© NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin, and the Royal Irish AcademyWhen citing this report please use the following citation: O’Carroll, A., Collins, S. ,Gallagher, D. ,Tang, J., &Webb, S. (2013) Caring for Digital Content, Mapping International Approaches . For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review. Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe.
They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work. Instead of relying on a few experts selected by leading publications, they advocate using the Internet to expose scholarly thinking to the swift collective judgment of a much broader interested audience. “What we’re experiencing now is the most important transformation in our reading and writing tools since the invention of movable type,” said Katherine Rowe, a Renaissance specialist and media historian at Bryn Mawr College.
“The way scholarly exchange is moving is radical, and we need to think about what it means for our fields.” Mixing traditional and new methods, the journal posted online four essays not yet accepted for publication, and a core group of experts — what Ms. Ms. Ms. Ms. To Mr. Digital Memory and the Archive. A manifesto – altmetrics.org.