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CHICAGO — From managing copyright and ownership to dealing with orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artifacts, and cultural heritage amateurs, the internet has created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. “,” published by and available through the , uses a selection of international case studies to explore these and related issues, demonstrating that in order for personal and community-based documentation and artifacts to be preserved and included in social and collective histories, individuals and community groups need the technical and knowledge infrastructures of support that formal cultural institutions can provide. Edited by Edward Benoit, III and Alexandra Eveleigh, this book explores:

• participants in the preservation of cultural heritage, exploring heritage institutions and organizations, community archives, and groups;
• challenges, including discussion of giving voices to communities, social inequality, digital archives, and data and online sharing; and
• solutions, discussing open access and APIs, digital postcards, the case for collaboration, digital storytelling and co-designing heritage practice.

Benoit, III is assistant professor at the School of Library & Information Science at Louisiana State University. He is the coordinator of both the archival studies and cultural heritage resource management MLIS specializations. He is the founder and director of the , which examines the personal archiving habits of the 21^st-Century soldier in an effort to develop new digital capture and preservation technologies to support their needs. Eveleigh is Collections Information Manager at Wellcome Collection in London, UK. From 2014 to 2016, she held academic positions in Information Studies and Digital Humanities at University College London and the University of Westminster respectively, following her PhD research at UCL in collaboration with The National Archives entitled "Crowding Out the Archivist? Implications of Online User Participation for Archival Theory and Practice" (2015). She was awarded a 2008 Winston Churchill Fellowship in connection to her work on born digital archives.

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