Digital cultural heritage: Collaborating with students and discovering lost museums

TY - JOUR

T1 - Digital cultural heritage

T2 - Collaborating with students and discovering lost museums

AU - Schuster, Kristen

AU - Grainger, Jacqui

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 IOS Press. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Our paper consists of two parts. First, we review the history of the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) museum, its collections, its closure and the dispersal of its collections. Second, we synthesize this analysis with a summary and reflection on the challenges of undertaking a collective memory project that represents the rise and fall of empire. To synthesize these two points, we discuss the museum’s history and highlight how digital cultural heritage initiatives have catalyzed an interest in digitizing and archiving RUSI’s collection records. Following our review of RUSI and its museum collection, we discuss the value of academics forming partnerships with cultural heritage institutions, and we analyze our experiences managing two student projects hosted at RUSI. Our discussion of student work will reflect on methods for designing engaging curriculum that encourages students to practice record keeping for cultural heritage institutions.

AB - Our paper consists of two parts. First, we review the history of the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) museum, its collections, its closure and the dispersal of its collections. Second, we synthesize this analysis with a summary and reflection on the challenges of undertaking a collective memory project that represents the rise and fall of empire. To synthesize these two points, we discuss the museum’s history and highlight how digital cultural heritage initiatives have catalyzed an interest in digitizing and archiving RUSI’s collection records. Following our review of RUSI and its museum collection, we discuss the value of academics forming partnerships with cultural heritage institutions, and we analyze our experiences managing two student projects hosted at RUSI. Our discussion of student work will reflect on methods for designing engaging curriculum that encourages students to practice record keeping for cultural heritage institutions.

KW - Academic

KW - Digital cultural heritage

KW - Digital Humanities pedagogy

KW - Practitioner partnerships

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102557596&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3233/EFI-190352

DO - 10.3233/EFI-190352

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85102557596

SN - 0167-8329

VL - 37

SP - 97

EP - 111

JO - EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION

JF - EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION

IS - 1

ER -