[Asis-l] DigiCULT Thematic Issue 5 - Now Available - Virtual Communities and Collaboration in the Heritage Sector

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*DigiCULT Thematic Issue 5 - Now Available
Virtual Communities and Collaboration in the Heritage Sector

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This fifth Thematic Issue concentrates on the question of how heritage 
institutions might benefit from fostering virtual communities related to 
core activities such as exhibitions, educational programmes or in 
support of scholarly communities.

There is growing volume of evidence to suggest that cultural heritage 
institutions' adoption of virtual communities will broaden the reach, 
value and relevance of cultural heritage. The vision to link the 
collections and work of heritage insitutions with virtual communities 
promises to considerably change the way we access, communicate about, 
share our understanding of, and participate in the experience of 
cultural heritage.

But, for most cultural heritage institutions, the challenge will be 
first to embrace the idea of co-operating with a (non-professional) 
online community, and then to nurture an evolving and thriving community 
that crosses the virtual as well as physical space.

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