Digitisation of Culture Namibian and International Perspectives [Hardcover]

This book explores the digitization of culture as a means of experiencing and understanding cultural heritage in Namibia and from international perspectives. It provides various views and perspectives on the digitization of culture, the goal being to stimulate further research, and to rapidly disseminate related discoveries. Aspects covered here include: virtual and augmented reality, audio and video technology, art, multimedia and digital media integration, cross-media technologies, modeling, visualization and interaction as a means of experiencing and grasping cultural heritage.

Over the past few decades, digitization has profoundly changed our cultural experience, not only in terms of digital technology-based access, production and dissemination, but also in terms of participation and creation, and learning and partaking in a knowledge society. Computing researchers have developed a wealth of new digital systems for preserving, sharing and interacting with cultural resources.

The book provides important information and tools for policy makers, knowledge experts, cultural and creative industries, communication scientists, professionals, educators, librarians and artists, as well as computing scientists and engineers conducting research on cultural topics.

Chapter 1. PastPresentSound: On Auralization as Augmented Reality.- Chapter 2. Leapfrogging Indias Antiquated Antiquities Laws: A Digital Strategy.- Chapter 3. Designing 3D Representations of Namibian Flora for Recognition by Indigenous Communities.- Chapter 4. Effective Visual Hints in a 3D Virtual Environment for an Indigenous Community.- Chapter 5. Envisioning the Semiotics of Cultural Heritage Artifacts.- Chapter 6. Exploiting Ndebele Designs to Control the Internet of Things for Digital Storytelling.- Chapter 7.