Digital culture

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ICOM (International Council of Museums): ICOM's main site on the Web
ICOM-CIDOC (International Committee on Documentation): CIDOC 's pages, a comprehensive guide to all its valuable services and publications
The Virtual Library: Museums: The Virtual Library of museums is the most complete listing of museums on the Web, and a valuable source of clicks for museums included

Department for Culture, Media & Sport: The UK government department responsible for funding museums, libraries and archives.
MLA: Museums Libraries and Archives (ex Re:Source): The UK government agency for museums, libraries and archives. Useful strategy reports including one on ICT for museums. The MLA runs Cornucopia, a potentially useful but currently patchy guide to UK museum collections.
The 24 Hour Museum: the gateway to UK museums online.
UK: MDA (Museum Documentation Association): The MDA develops and published SPECTRUM: the UK museum data standard, used in many countries. It is the UK advisory body for all museum documentation affairs.
UK Museums Association: Not really to do with museum information, but seems daft not to have it here. People often search this site for jobs, so this is a link.
National Museum Directors' Conference: A Netful of Jewels: New Museums in the Learning Age (pdf version) (html version) This influential report from the UK National Museums Directors' Conference set out the stall for funding digitisation for UK museums.
Museum Computer Group: MCG: The UK professional and information exchange group - meetings, conferences, useful mailing list

CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network): CHIN is perhaps the longest established national museum information organisation. Try its excellent collections search facility.
Virtual Museum of Canada: Originally springing from CHIN, this is a multi-million dollar initiative in cultural digitisation from the government of Canada.
MCN (Museum Computer Network): The MCN is the American organisation for those interested in all kinds of computing issues in museums.
The Getty Standards and Digital Resource Management Program Institute: works to develop standards and practices, tools and guidelines for developing, managing, preserving, and delivering information relating to the visual arts in electronic form.

DCA (Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts): Comprehensive site relating to the ministry's arts, heritage and libraries responsibilities
AMOL (Australian Museums On Line) ... in the process of becoming the Collections Australia Network (CAN): Wonderful website promoting and helping museums to develop their digital potential.
Cornucopia: Less than wonderful website, Cornucopia is supposed to be a guide to collections in UK museums. Great idea, but very patchy in practice.