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As digitized collections grow, Navigating Artificial Intelligence assesses how AI is reshaping the accessibility and ethical challenges of cultural records.

As artificial intelligence reshapes the cultural heritage sector, libraries, archives, and museums face novel opportunities and pressing ethical challenges. Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations brings together leading experts from digital humanities, computer science, and information science to explore how AI-driven technologies transform the management and interpretation of digitized and born-digital records.

Through an examination of real-world case studies from the UK, US, and beyond, this volume provides significant insights into AI’s role in record management and text and data mining, while addressing issues of trust and risk in automated systems. Designed for heritage professionals, researchers, and information specialists, this book offers a timely guide to leveraging AI while also safeguarding the integrity and accessibility of cultural archives for the future.
 

The first comprehensive guide written in English on how to research the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections since the publication of the AAM Guide to Provenance Research.

When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis—a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. Countless artworks were seized or forcibly sold by the Nazi regime, with many ending up in museum collections around the world, even in countries that actively fought to defeat Nazi Germany.

Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections equips readers with the knowledge and strategies essential for confronting the shadow of the Nazi past in museum collections. Jacques Schuhmacher provides the vital historical orientation required to understand the Nazis’ complex campaign of systematic dispossession and extermination and highlights the current environment in which museum-based Nazi-era provenance research takes place. This book introduces readers to the research methods and resources that can be used to reveal the moving stories behind the objects. Provenance research not only seeks to recover erased names and experiences and to reinsert them into a historical record but also to ensure that the Nazis’ actions and worldview do not remain unchallenged in the galleries and storerooms of our museums today. It is a crucial resource for scholars, museum professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the ethical and historical implications of Nazi-looted art.
 

From thick description to autoethnography, a collection of some of the latest investigatory methodologies in sensory heritage work.

In recent years, archaeologists and other researchers dealing with heritage sites have increasingly emphasized the fact that people in the past interacted with their natural and built environment through all of their senses. In turn, they have come to acknowledge the limits of research methods that rely solely on visual analysis. Presenting studies of historical environments from multiple fields, from archaeology to acoustics, through the lens of the senses, New Sensory Approaches to the Past showcases the latest developments in sensory research through real-world scenarios of human-environment connections. Interdisciplinary examples of diverse sensory in-situ studies will enable readers to replicate and enhance their own investigations. Further, the volume pushes beyond historically Western frameworks of sensory perception towards a more global understanding of the senses.