47: Digitizing the materiality of books (Conservation Insights 2020)

Описание: INTACH Conservation Institute Lecture Series 'Conservation Insights 2020’ was delivered on 12th October at 1700 IST via Zoom
Speaker: Alberto Campagnolo (Digital Humanities & Archaeology of the book researcher, Italy)

The title of the talk: Digitizing the materiality of books

The successful transmediation of books and documents through digitization requires the synergetic partnership of many professional figures that have what may sometimes appear as conflicting goals at heart. On one side, there are those who look after the physical objects and strive to preserve them for the future generations—conservators and curators— and on the other those involved in the digitization of the objects, the information that they contain, and the management of the digital data—digitization professionals, and then digital humanists. These complementary activities are generally considered as separate. More often than not, conservation is presented as ancillary to digitization, with the role of the conservator restricted to the preparation of items for scanning, with no input into the digital product. By understanding the informational content of books as objects and the role that conservators could have in the creation of broader digital products and tools, on the one hand, and, on the other, the transformative and transcendent value that digital surrogates can and should bring to the table we can aim at producing digital products that balance the importance of the original object, while also keeping in mind the merit and enhancing nature of digital surrogates (and how these can also help the conservator).

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