Dijital koruma dijital miras dijitalleştirilmiş somut olmayan kültürel miras müzelerde depo yönetimi önleyici koruma
Conservation, research and communication are the basic functions of the museums according to the new
museological approach, and conservation is one of the core missions since the birth of the museums. On the
other hand, collections are the hearth of the museums and contribute to their development and activities. Storage
areas protect collections and provides sustainability for the collection management. In this context, one of the
main duties of museums is to maintain and manage collections in storage area under appropriate and safe conditions.
Most of the museums in the world exhibit only a small percentage of their collections and so many
collection items are housed in storage. Storage areas require regular monitoring, control and maintenance similar
to exhibition galleries. Physical and environmental conditions of storage areas, storage systems and methods
differ according to the material, condition, quantity and dimensions of the museum collections. Museum collections
are defined as movable, immovable as well as tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Today, digital
heritage is also part of the collections. Digital museum collections can be defined as born digital, digital or
digitized item. Collecting, conservation, documentation, accessing or storage procedures of movable or tangible
heritage in museums are on practice with well-developed principles, standards as well as collection management
and conservation policies. However, identification, documentation, the concept of authenticity or issues of ownership
of intangible cultural heritage is still on discussion. Digital preservation is also one of the recent research
topics and practices for safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. In this context, digitized intangible
cultural heritage can defined as digital resources that are digitized from audio-visual recordings, photographs
or ephemera which documents and preserves practices and their tools or spaces associated with. However, technology
is developing much faster today and most of the digital tools have a very short life span. Thus, technological
development is a challenge for preserving digitized intangible cultural heritage. In a broader sense,
preservation of digital heritage in the museum storage areas including physical and environmental conditions
of the storage area where the digital heritage is located, their storage system, method and the storage management
procedures are different comparing to the preservation of tangible heritage or other movable cultural assets.
In this framework, main research questions of this article are: How the digitalization practices contribute
to the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage? As technology is changing rapidly, how the preservation
tools and storage methods of the digitized intangible cultural heritage can be kept up with the technological
developments? How long the life span of the digitized intangible cultural heritage collections can be extended
in museum storage? The article will mainly focus on the storage management of digitized intangible cultural
heritage, and explain their physical and environmental conditions in the museum storage area. Terms of digital
heritage, digitized intangible cultural heritage, digital preservation as well as the history of digital preservation
of museum collections, organizations/institutions’ contributions in the field will be discussed. Information about
the storage system, storage method with safe materials and procedures will be provided within the scope of
literature review. The paper highlights contributions of the digitalization practices to the safeguarding of the
intangible cultural heritage, major issues and challenges related to the digital preservation in museum storage,
and propose steps for the sustainable storage management of digitized intangible cultural heritage.
Digital preservation digital heritage digitized intangible cultural heritage museum storage management preventive conservation
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Cultural Studies |
Journal Section | RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Authors | |
Publication Date | December 18, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 16 Issue: 128 |
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