Digital cultural heritage is not digital resources imbued with cultural value, but networked access to usable digital representations of tangible, intangible and natural cultural heritage. Digital is a means, not an end.
The intrinsic value of the representation is from the heritage, with a limiting factor of its fitness-for-purpose or usability. The actual value is only realized through interaction, and resulting experiential impact.
The impact comes both from the digital and the heritage resource. Digital is the epitome of economic non-rivalrous good, whereas heritage is the opposite as experiential scarcity adds emotional attachment and value.
Diversity increases experience of heritage, uniformity increases experience of digital interfaces. Multiple heritage resources available in the same, highly functional, highly usable interface is thus the greatest possible impact ...
… requiring implementation of content standards designed with usability in mind, not theoretical purity, and broad community adoption, not pet research projects. #LOUD #IIIF [and I’m done!]
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