Book Title: Opening up our Heritage

Subtitle: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research Collections

Authors: François Renaville, Renaud Adam and Cécile Oger (Eds.)

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Book Description: How can heritage institutions reconcile the duty to preserve fragile historical collections with the growing demand for open, digital access? This book explores that question through the lens of an Erasmus Staff Training week, where librarians, curators, project managers, and researchers met to examine the challenges and opportunities of digitising and promoting cultural and research heritage.

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Book Description

How can heritage institutions reconcile the duty to preserve fragile historical collections with the growing demand for open, digital access? This book explores that question through the lens of a European Erasmus Staff Training week, where librarians, curators, project managers, and researchers met to examine the challenges and opportunities of digitising and promoting cultural and research heritage.
Opening up our Heritage offers a rich overview of current practices, institutional strategies, and collaborative projects that bring rare books, scientific instruments, photographs, and local archives into the digital age. With case studies drawn from across Europe, the Americas, and South Africa, the book highlights how technology can both safeguard and activate collections—ensuring their transmission to future generations while engaging new audiences today.
Structured in four thematic parts—Preservation and Digitisation; Data Structuring and Connectivity; Promotion and Showcasing; and Community Engagement—it captures the diversity of approaches and shared ambitions in the cultural heritage sector.
A timely and practical resource for professionals and academics alike, this volume sheds light on the dynamic intersection of heritage preservation, digital innovation, and public engagement.

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François Renaville, Renaud Adam and Cécile Oger (Eds.)

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Archiving, preservation and digitization

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Title
Opening up our Heritage
Authors
François Renaville, Renaud Adam and Cécile Oger (Eds.)
Contributors
Renaud Adam; Laurent Aucher; Eva Ausēja; Junior Browne; Joris Colla; Nicolas Di Méo; Mălina Duță; Olivier Ghuzel; Despoina Gkogkou; Christian Hänger; Saga Jacksen; Laura Moré; Cécile Oger; Riitta Peltonen; Francesca Petricca; Annika Peurell; François Renaville; Laurence Richelle; Gislene Rodrigues da Silva; Marika Sarvilahti; Teresita Scalco; Rouven Schabinger; Mimi Seyffert-Wirth; Stéphanie Simon; Nikol Stepan; Saskia van Bergen; and Maartje van den Heuvel
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Opening up our Heritage Copyright © 2025 by François Renaville, Renaud Adam and Cécile Oger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Presses Universitaires de Liège ; ULiège Library, 2025 (D/2025/12.839/28)

Primary Subject
Archiving, preservation and digitization
Additional Subject(s)
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Photographs: collections, Book design and Bookbinding, Internet and digital media: arts and performance, Translation and interpretation, Memoirs, Literature: history and criticism, Library and information sciences / Museology, Library, archive and information management, Museology and heritage studies, Cultural studies, Education, History, Oral history, History of science, Accessibility in web and digital design, Local history
Institution
Université de Liège
Publisher
Presses Universitaires de Liège ; ULiège Library
Publication Date
September 1, 2025
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25518/978-2-87019-330-3
Ebook ISBN
978-2-87019-330-3 (HTML); 978-2-87019-331-0 (PDF); 978-2-87019-332-7 (ePub)
Print ISBN
978-2-87562-484-0