Digital Dilemmas and Solutions

Limb, Peter

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“…Exploitation can result from asymmetrical relationships, as recognized by Limb (2004). In this regard, Britz and Lor (2004) have argued, on the basis of the principle of distributive justice, that developing countries also have a moral responsibility to disseminate their heritage to other countries and share in the benefits of their knowledge.…”

Section: Ethical Issues In Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya

Deisser¹,

Njuguna²

2016

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. As scientists, historians and archaeologists continue to uncover, study and promote access to tangible and intangible cultural heritage, there are ever increasing challenges that pervade conservation efforts. Heritage conservation is threatened as the world globalizes and African economies open up to new realms of growth in the international markets while increased building construction, infrastructural expansion as well as terrorism destroy existing heritage assets. Kenya in particular prides itself as a prodigious habitat for abundant and various natural and cultural heritage assets including archaeological sites, wildlife, landscapes and folklores. However, the different forms cultural and natural heritage take and the complexity of the conservation challenges are not congealed; their constant and respective evolution requires continuous regeneration of competence, technology and value systems. Conservators must therefore seek to expand existing principles and practices in the management of cultural and natural heritage, including the assessment of values attributed to the heritage, questions of reversibility and replica as well as access and security issues.Cultural heritage conservation is not one of the subjects that have been accorded great attention in Kenya over the past century. The editors and contributors aim, however, to highlight and expand conservation studies from the confines of technical and scientific management expertise into the strata of matters engrained in local populations and the intrinsic links between communities, and their cultural and natural environment within the Kenyan legal framework. An in-depth discussion on contradictions in existing laws in Kenya exposes the difficulties in implementing conservation guidelines.This book gives voice to subjects and highlights heritage uncared for, which helps to tell and understand the national narrative. The heritage mentioned includes monuments, trafficking of African antiquities, wildlife, cultural tourism, indigenous methods of conservation, the participation and empowerment of communities as immediate beneficiaries and vi F O RE WO RD makers of the culture. Consequently, ownership rights and utilization of heritage resources is presented as an issue of human rights and democracy. This book also introduces rural landscapes from the dimension of aesthetics and how these can be understood and used as a socio-cultural resource. It is a book that opens up conversations on 'esoteric' historical issues such as colonization and the influence of religion on cultural practices.Kenyan scholars have for a long time relied on foreign knowledge in seeking to understand and expl...

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Section: Ethical Issues In Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritagementioning

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Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya

Deisser¹,

Njuguna²

2016

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“…He explains that the computerised storage and retrieval of library files linked to the salient aspects of the Internet have been in use for many years now. Limb (2004) also adds that no radical changes will be experienced in the library scene as the new libraries will be syncretic combinations of traditional and digital collections and operations. Crawford (2009) likens the current change in libraries to old wine in a new and carefully-polished bottle.…”

Section: Is the Change Evolutionary?mentioning

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“…The level of transformation in these functions is thus evolution and not revolution (Limb, 2004). Libraries continue to perform essential operations such as material selection, acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, maintenance, preservation, reference, and document delivery.…”

Section: Is the Change Evolutionary?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some also point out that the ratio of digital to print resources is continually rising to take advantage of the economies of scale and superior capabilities of the new information technologies, leading to a steady rise in the proportion of digital resources in modern library collections (Limb, 2004). They further argue that, just like the invention of printing, the digital revolution will catalyse the conception and birth of a new library (Casson, 2001;Limb, 2004). Limb (2004) and Hoskins (2009) further argue that the digital nature of information resources is now introducing a paradigm change in collection development, moving from a focus on acquisition of the actual resources to obtaining remote access rights to them.…”

Section: Is the Change Revolutionary?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They further argue that, just like the invention of printing, the digital revolution will catalyse the conception and birth of a new library (Casson, 2001;Limb, 2004). Limb (2004) and Hoskins (2009) further argue that the digital nature of information resources is now introducing a paradigm change in collection development, moving from a focus on acquisition of the actual resources to obtaining remote access rights to them. They suggest that this is revolutionary.…”

Section: Is the Change Revolutionary?mentioning

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2012

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Provi des an overview of the main ethical and associ ated poli tical -economic aspects of the preservation of born-digital content and the digitization of analogue content for purposes of preservation. The term 'heritage' is used broadly to include scientific and scholarly publications and data. While the preservation of heritage is generally seen as inherently 'good', this activity implies the exercise of difficult moral choices. The ethical complexity of the preservation of di gi tal heri tage is illustrated by means of two hypotheti cal cases. The first deal s wi th the harvesting and preservation in a wealthy country of political websites originating in a less affluent country. The second deals with a project initiated by a wealthy country to digitize the cultural heritage of a less affluent country. The ethical reflection that follows is structured within the framework of social justice and a set of information rights that are identified as corollaries of 2 generally recognized human rights. The main moral agents, that is, the parties that have an interest, and may be entitled to exercise rights, in relation to digital preservation, are identified.The responsibilities that those who preserve digital content have towards these parties, and the political-economic considerations that arise, are then analyzed.

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Digital Dilemmas and Solutions

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An ethical perspective on political‐economic issues in the long‐term preservation of digital heritage

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