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Museums and the Information Age
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By
Suzanne Keene, Independent consultant, and senior lecturer in Museum Studies at University College London.
Description
Suzanne Keene's pioneering book shows how museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and electronic
communications and, most importantly, how they can take advantage of what it has to offer.
By using new technology museums can build
knowledge bases around information about collections. A collection object can be the central link for information about past and present,
places, people and concepts, technologies, ways of working and evidence of the natural world. 'Digital Collections' explains how this
vision can be realized. Sound, video and animations can be digitized and developed as a central resource that can be drawn on for many
varied access routes: via the World Wide Web; CD ROMs; through on-gallery screens, and other future products still in development.
These technological capabilities raise many compelling issues that need to be understood in order to successfully develop information
collections. In this book Suzanne Keene reviews these issues clearly and comprehensively. Her accompanying Click-Through Guide provides
the latest news and links to Internet information:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~s-keene/infoage/infoage.htm
Suzanne Keene is a senior
manager of museum collections and information at the Science Museum, London. She led the UK LASSI project to select a collections information
system for UK museums. This, with her experience in directing information technology and multimedia projects, means that she is accustomed
to translating the highly technical concepts of information technology into high level issues for senior and strategic management.
Audience
Museum managers, museum IT staff, museum curators and collection managers. Professional in libraries and arts organisations. Students
on museum studies courses and arts, photography and design courses.
Contents
What's happening?; Electronic opportunities; Museum collections functions digitized; Building the digital collection; Standards and choice;
Making multimedia: a whirlwind tour; Let's hear it from our users: design and evaluation; Digits and people; The wide, wide world; A
crystal ball. Appendix. Explanations. Sources and further reading. Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 160 pages, publication date: FEB-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-3456-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-3456-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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