Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index
Openness in heritage. Heritage amateurs ; Organising heritage in institutions ; Physical access ; Online access ; Data access ; Summary ; Notes -- Sharing legally. Heritage laws ; Data protection law ; Copyright law ; Summary ; Notes -- Publishing open data. Galleries/art museums ; Libraries ; Archives ; Museums ; GLAM ; Summary ; Notes -- Using and reusing open data. Use and users ; Technical skills ; Authority ; Heritage hackathons ; Wikipedians ; Education and youth ; Apps ; DIY and maker culture ; Portals ; Tools ; Summary -- Visualising open data. Basic data reuse ; Images ; Maps ; Charts ; Summary -- Combining open data. Combining art ; Combining archaeological records ; Combining newspapers ; Summary -- Open data for research. Basic data collection ; Data cleaning ; Descriptive statistics ; Timeline analysis ; Summary
"Digital heritage can mean many things, from building a database on Egyptian textiles to interacting with family historians over Facebook. However, it is rare to see professionals with a heritage background working practically with the heritage datasets in their charge. Many institutions who have the resources to do so, leave this work to computer programmers, missing the opportunity to share their knowledge and passion for heritage through innovative technology. Open Heritage Data: An introduction to research, publishing and programming with open data in the heritage sector has been written for practitioners, researchers and students working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector who do not have a computer science background, but who want to work more confidently with heritage data. It combines current research in open data with the author's extensive experience in coding and teaching coding to provide a step-by-step guide to working actively with the increasing amounts of data available."-- Publisher's description
