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Cultural Heritage Informatics
Cultural Heritage Informatics
LIS 60635
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Cultural heritage informatics brings a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary approach to supporting the entire lifecycle of cultural heritage information and documentation procedures for the benefit of the preservation, study, and promotion of cultural heritage. The course covers methods of creating descriptions for cultural objects, as well as organizing, delivering, and presenting the cultural heritage (tangible, intangible, and digital) resources in the digital age. The course aims to prepare students for careers focusing on or transcending libraries, archives, museums (LAMs), historical societies, and other cultural institutions by introducing them the methodologies and technologies commonly used in cultural heritage informatics and can be broadly implemented in LAMs.
Special Topic: Archival Description
LIS 61095
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Standards and practices for describing archives and manuscripts: Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), MARC21 for archival cataloging, and Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
Individual Investigation: Current Methods in Intangible Cultural Heritage Informatics Research
LIS 61096
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A review of recent and current methods towards the study of performing arts and ritual/cultural
ceremonies as intangible cultural heritage through information science, knowledge
organization, and information representation approaches for the purpose of determining
future research opportunities.
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