Linking the Chain: A Network for Digital Heritage in Wales

经过十年的权力下放，威尔士已经发展成为一个自信的后工业国家，在创意产业和遗产方面具有特别的经济实力。它开创了许多与遗产相关的创新项目，这些项目采用了最新的数字技术，例如BBC威尔士的数字故事项目“捕获威尔士”，威尔士国家图书馆的“收集珠宝”和CyMAL（Cymru博物馆和图书馆）的“人民收藏”，仅举几例。它还高度参与实现数字包容议程，并认识到由于其地理和人口特征，它在这方面面临着具体的挑战。该项目将围绕威尔士数字遗产的主题，建立一个由主要学术和非学术合作伙伴组成的泛威尔士网络。该网络将举行一系列专题研讨会，每次研讨会都将探讨与威尔士数字遗产有关的一个关键问题，并寻求制定一个更详细的议程和一系列项目，以便在这一新兴领域开展进一步研究，这将对政策制定者以及威尔士的经济、文化和社会生活产生重大影响。每个工作坊将由不同的遗产组织主办。该网络还将在学术界和非学术界利益攸关方之间建立网络的可持续性和扩大网络，并将编制案例研究材料，可用于其他发达国家、小国和继承国的比较研究。威尔士数字遗产网络将由格拉摩根大学领导，该大学在数字遗产方面有具体的经验和专业知识，但也将包括来自班戈尔大学、斯旺西大学、格林杜尔大学和威尔士大学纽波特的跨学科团队。非学术合作伙伴包括威尔士国家博物馆、威尔士国家图书馆、国家石板博物馆、国家海滨博物馆、皇家古代和历史古迹委员会

After ten years of devolution Wales has developed as a confident, post-industrial nation with particular economic strengths in the creative industries and heritage. It has pioneered a number of innovative heritage-related projects that have incorporated the latest digital technology, such as BBC Wales's Digital Storytelling Project 'Capture Wales', the National Library for Wales's 'Gathering the Jewels' and CyMAL's (Cymru Museums and Libraries) 'People's Collection' to name but a few. It is also highly involved in delivering on the Digital Inclusion agenda and recognises that it faces specific challenges in this respect due to its georgraphic and demographic profile. This project will create a pan-Wales network of key academic and non-academic partners around the theme of digital heritage in Wales. The network will meet at a series of themed workshops, each of which will interrogate a key issue relating to digital heritage in Wales and seek to establish a more detailed agenda and a series of projects for further research in this emerging field that will have measurable impact upon policy-makers, as well as the economic, cultural and social life of Wales. Each workshop will be hosted by a different heritage organisation. The network will also establish sustainability and expansion of the network amongst academic and non-academic stakeholders and will create case study material which could be used for comparative research in other devolved nations, small nations and succession states.Linking the Chain: The Network for Digital Heritage in Wales will be led by the University of Glamorgan, where there is specific experience and expertise in Digital Heritage, but will also include cross-dicsiplinary teams from Bangor University, Swansea University,Glyndwr University and the University of Wales Newport. Non-academic partners include National Museum Wales, the National Library of Wales, the National Slate Museum, the National Waterfront Museum, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments