Digital Heritage: Concluding Thoughts
Digital approaches to heritage and archaeology were in development since the 1980s and witnessed exponential growth throughout the 1990s. The successive decade saw the breadth and depth of digital technology being applied in heritage and archaeology, enco
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Digital Heritage: Concluding Thoughts Eugene Ch0 ng, Vincent L. Gaffney and Henry Chapman
Abstract Digital approaches to heritage and archaeology were in development since the 1980s and witnessed exponential growth throughout the 1990s. The successive decade saw the breadth and depth of digital technology being applied in heritage and archaeology, encompassing a more complete process in research and focusing on more practical methodologies. It is perhaps at this juncture that digital heritage can be said to be approaching a stage of maturity. The impacts of technological change on the process and dissemination of research witnessed within this volume have demonstrated just that. However, the combinations and permutations of existing and emerging digital technologies and the subject of study in heritage and archaeology are continually creating new areas of research. In this concluding chapter, we reflect upon the research presented in this volume and explore the notion of a continuum of digital heritage development and the recent changes in a more substantive manner. Keywords Digital technology
Heritage Blurring boundaries Future trends
E. Ch0 ng (&) V. L. Gaffney IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, Digital Humanities Hub, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK e-mail: [email protected] V. L. Gaffney e-mail: [email protected] E. Ch0 ng V. L. Gaffney Centre for Creative Content and Digital Innovation, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia H. Chapman IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK e-mail: [email protected] E. Ch0 ng et al. (eds.), Visual Heritage in the Digital Age, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5535-5_18, Springer-Verlag London 2013
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18.1 Introduction The title of this book, Visual Heritage in the Digital Age, may perhaps be seen as pointing in two directions. Whilst the focus has been on the application of digital technologies and their recent developments within the broad realm of heritage, digital technologies themselves have their own legacy. Digital approaches to heritage and archaeology have been developing since the 1980s, but witnessed exponential growth throughout the 1990s and successive decades. In some ways, the examples of research presented in this volume illustrate the most recent stage of a continuum of development within a broader context of change, as illustrated by the notion of Web 2.0 in 1999 and, more recently, the development of the semantic Web (Berners-Lee et al. 2001), the Internet of things (Atzori et al. 2010), the need for big data analytics (Lohr 2012) and the data science associated with it, as well as the emergent domain of complex systems science (Byrne 1998; Holland 2012; Miller and Page 2007; Mitchell 2009; Page 2010; Sole and Goodwin 2002; Weaver 1949). The implications of these dramatic technological changes and the resulting new research areas have important implications for heritage study in the twentyfir
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