Cultural Heritage

New technologies impose new approaches to cultural heritage collections in museums, archives, special collection libraries, and other institutions. Objects come to visitors via their computer or (increasingly) Smartphone screens, thereby calling for change in collection management. I advise heritage institutions on digitisation strategies and approaches and on post-digitisation, target-oriented collection value-enhancement.

Some of my publications:

• Nyirubugara, Olivier, Surfing the Past: Digital learners in the history class (Leiden: Sidestone, 2012).
• Nyirubugara, Olivier,  ‘Gedigitaliseerd maar onderbenut: Erfgoed-websites en hun gebruik in het geschiedenisonderwijs’, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 14-2. (December 2011).
• Nyirubugara, Olivier, ‘ “Everything About the Past”: Wikipedia and History Education’, in Ciastellardi, Matteo, Miranda de Almeida, Cristina & Scolari, Carlos (eds.), McLuhan Galaxy Conference Understanding Media Today (Barcelona: Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, 2011), pp. 130–141.
• Nyirubugara, Olivier, ‘Clickable Memories: Hyperlinking and Memory Contextualisation’, in Maj, Anna & Riha, Daniel (eds.) Digital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010), pp. 51-60.