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Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Sikarskie, Amanda Grace

Paperback

Series: American Association for State and Local History

Business GeneralTextiles & Costume

ISBN10: 1442263652
ISBN13: 9781442263659
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 8 2016
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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