Past for the Future: Digital Pathways in Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital technology with historical disciplines; including art history
Interests: Greek and Orthodox Christian history; practice in the diaspora
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue grew out of a conference at the Swedish Institute of Athens and seeks to explore how digital humanities currently operate within the study and management of the past. This transdisciplinary volume will include contributions from archeology, history, and cultural heritage and aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore how technology is shaping our study, understanding, and experience of the past today in fields as diverse as archeological fieldwork, video gaming, archival research, and social media. With a focus on case studies, this Special Issue seeks to move beyond theoretical pondering to understand the real-world implications of technology in the study of the past.
This volume explores themes that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Visualizing Interfaces: Digitized manuscripts and interactive maps;
- Augmented and Virtual Reality, Gaming, and Mixed Media;
- Implications, Infrastructures, Policies, and Citizen Science (i.e., archives and creative and cultural heritage industries).
The Special Issue aims to contextualize digitization within academia, museums/cultural institutions, and tourism and to open the discussion surrounding new trends and unexplored frontiers in digital cultural heritage.
With both media and methods in mind, our ultimate purpose is to confront the current state of digital research infrastructures (libraries, museums, and archives, the incorporation of VR/AR, literacies, space, and place as sociotechnical components) and to discuss the importance of openness and linked data on an international level. Historical records can be biased and subject to national and continental schemes, and our understanding of place, history, and culture are bound up with issues of historical representations and identity formation within Western frameworks. Digital futures provide us with an opportunity to move beyond these barriers if we are willing to engage in productive, multidisciplinary conversations. This Special Issue endeavors to be an important part of this conversation.
Dr. Anna Foka
Dr. Katherine Kelaidis
Guest Editors
Dr. Georgia Xekalaki
Guest Editor Assistant
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- cultural heritage
- humanities
- museums
- history
- archives
- digital
- virtual
- visualizing interfaces
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