Admission requirements
There are no additional requirements.
Description
In this course, we will explore how digital technologies have reshaped how we interact with, preserve, and pass on our cultural heritage. We will also learn how digital (artistic) materials can become heritage and how they can be interacted with, preserved and passed on as heritage. As such, we will both examine the role of digital databases and online archives in making vast amounts of historical and cultural information readily available to anyone online, but also pay attention to new concepts for and ways of understanding heritage in this digital world.
The course is structured into three modules. The first module focuses what digital heritage is and on the creation, archiving and navigation of digital heritage. It will demonstrate how cultural artefacts are documented in digital forms and how digital forms can be understood as heritage and can be preserved as such. The second module delves into the debates around digital heritage, addressing topical issues like open access, sustainability, and authenticity. The third and final module discusses the use of digital tools and methods of digital heritage in research, showcasing the wide range of scholarly and museum practices that utilize digital resources and technologies. It will highlight how digital heritage can transform the methods of conducting art history and humanities research from innovative digital perspectives.
Course objectives
Students who successfully complete the course will have a good understanding of:
digital methods, skills and key concepts in digital heritage and preservation;
current debates within digital heritage scholarship;
practices and methods of academic fields and cultural heritage institutions such as museums and archives;
Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
understand the different academic debates pertaining to digital heritage;
understand the various methods used to document artworks and cultural artifacts in digital form;
evaluate different practices for preserving and presenting cultural heritage in the digital realm;
relate to, situate and reflect on viewpoints and arguments related to the creation, preservation, and application of digital heritage.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
- Lecture
Assessment method
Assessment
- Written examination with closed questions
Weighing
- Final exam: 100%
To pass the course, the grade must be 5.5 or higher (which will be rounded to 6.0). If the student failed the final exam (5.0 or lower), a resit exam can be taken.
Resit
A resit can be done through taking the resit exam if the student failed in the final exam (5.0 or lower).
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading List
Course materials will be published on Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website
Registration À la carte education, Contract teaching and Exchange
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of À la carte education (without taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of Contract teaching (with taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Student administration Arsenaal
Remarks
Not applicable.