A network co-ordinated by Hunterian Joint Curator and Lecturer in Museum Studies, Dr Maria Economou, has been awarded a £19,875 research network grant by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation was started in January 2015 and is funded for a two-year period. 

The network brings together academics from different disciplines and professionals from Scotland’s key cultural organisations in order to investigate how cultural digital resources are used by diverse user groups, how to record their impact on learning, research, and community engagement, and how to maximize their potential.

It also integrates different methodologies and perspectives (from digital humanities, computing science, museology, social sciences) and uses as a case study the Kelvin Hall Project in Glasgow, which will bring together the collections of Glasgow Life, The Hunterian of the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Screen Archive of the National Library of Scotland.

The network will study the particular characteristics of Glasgow’s cultural offering but locate them in an international perspective of understanding digital cultural heritage.

The network partners will organise a series of four workshops on significant research themes, an international symposium, a knowledge exchange event for cultural heritage professionals, a public lecture and an open day exploring digital collections at the Kelvin Hall.

Dr Economou is based at The Hunterian and HATII in the University of Glasgow School's of Humanities.

 

First published: 29 January 2015

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