Course
UC10154 -- Exploring Digital Heritage -- 2016

Summary

This unit will examine how digital tools and techniques can be used to extend our understanding of cultural heritage theory and practice. From the now familiar world of blogs and social media, through to big data and computer vision, technology is changing the way we work within cultural heritage. Students will investigate these new methods of research and representation, analysing their implications and experimenting with data, text, and images. Through practical exercises using a range of digital tools, students will gain skills, confidence, and critical insights into the future of cultural heritage practice.

• Week 1 – Introduction

• Week 2 – Doing it in public

• Week 3 – Collections and contexts

• Week 4 – Big data / small data

• Week 5 – Analysing texts

• Week 6 – Data visualisation

• Week 7 – The power of maps

• Week 9 – Seeing like a computer

• Week 10 – Digital realities (AR, VR, 3D)

• Week 12 – Online interventions