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Textile Collections - Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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Textile Collections - Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
Series: American Association for State and Local History
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Collections of textiles-historic costume, quilts, needlework
samplers, and the like-have benefited greatly from the digital turn
in museum and archival work. Both institutional online repositories
and collections-based social media sites have fostered
unprecedented access to textile collections that have traditionally
been marginalized in museums. How can curators, interpreters, and
collections managers make best use of these new opportunities? To
answer this question, the author worked with sites including the
Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University Museum,
the Design Center at Philadelphia University, the International
Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, and the WGBH Boston Media Library and Archives,
as well as user-curated social sites online such as Tumblr and
Polyvore, to create four compelling case studies on the
preservation, access, curation, and interpretation of textile
objects. The book explores: *The nature of digital material
culture. *The role of audience participation versus curatorial
authority online. *Audience-friendly collections metadata and
tagging. *Visual, rather than text-based, searching and cataloging.
*The legality of ownership and access of museum collections online.
*Gender equity in museums and archives. This book is essential
reading for anyone who cares for, collects, exhibits, or interprets
historic costume or textile collections, but its broad implications
for the future of museum work make it relevant for anyone with an
interest in museum work online. And because the focus of this
volume is theory and praxis, rather than specific technologies that
are likely to become obsolete, it will be staple on your bookshelf
for years to come.
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