The Limerick dance halls project: The charm of discreet technology

For a long time, cultural heritage preservation was seen as the prerogative of -official institutions such as museums, galleries, archives and libraries. Lately, new developments seeing various types of communities taking an active role in collecting and preserving artefacts and information related to their own past has led to a much broader view of heritage. Giaccardi (2011) argues for a perspective of heritage as a domain that collects and preserves what people and communities value as representative of their history, identity, and values. Communities of interest around heritage are defining and reconfiguring heritage, by increasingly defining and taking ownership of what counts for them (Ciolfi, 2013).