museums, collections, and information

digital collections

Suzanne Keene

Butterworth Heinemann: 1998
ISBN 0 7506 3456 1

How museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and digital communications, and how they can take advantage of what it has to offer.

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TOPICS
Collections and digitisation. What is the information economy? - some interesting articles and links. Innovative developments that museums should be aware of. The landscape of the internet itself: statistics on its use; depictions or explanations of it.

ORGANISATIONS
The organisations that principally concern museums interested in using the internet. These include museum organisations, organisations concerned with higher education (for which there has been enormous investment), and European Commission organisations and programmes.

RESOURCES
How to do it: standards, technology, making websites etc. Conferences: links to some of the main conferences on cultural use of the internet. Articles, e-news and e-magazines. Some selected books.

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collections
e-economy
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Europe

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