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CHURCH INTERIORS AND DIGITAL NARRATIVES: LATVIAN CHURCH HERITAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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Today, digitalisation is widely discussed in the context of various institutions whoseoperational guidelines have made it a daily routine and a necessity for making informationaccessible to the public. The digitisation of museum collections is of particularimportance, both in terms of making them accessible to the public and for art historyresearch. However, many art objects are not only in museums, but also in churches,where, unlike the above-mentioned institutions, digitisation is not a priority and anecessity for them to continue to fulfil their tasks for the public. Considering that most ofthe sculptures created in Latvia before the middle of the 19th century are located inchurches, the paper focuses on the issues related to sacred interiors, digitisationpossibilities and their necessity. The paper analyses a number of problems and proposessolutions to the questions of what digitisation should be in order to give the maximumvalue, rather than digitisation for digitisation's. What are the benefits of a high quality,research-based digitisation of sacred interiors in the Latvian and European context. Theauthor highlights the necessity and importance of creating a digital database of sacredinteriors and masters, ensuring the circulation and accessibility of information not onlyfor art history research, but for society as a whole. The availability of information willcreate the possibility not only to see but to understand what you see and to appreciateuniqueness.
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