publications and articles

by Suzanne Keene

Presentations (large files!)

2007. Fragments of the World: what about the stored collections? Presentation to the Alberta Museums Association Annual Conference, Red Deer, 21-22 Sept.

2005. Collections: treasure or trash? Paper and presentation to Museums Australia conference, Sydney, 2nd-4th May 2005.

Articles and papers

I was startled to find that a large part of one of my articles had turned up verbatim in someone else's article in the proceedings of a well known annual conference series. All in the spirit of the internet of course. I would be grateful for a proper reference to my paper if you cite one. Please identify any direct quotations as such.

In preparation . Asset or liability? The economics of museum collections in store.

2006. All that is solid? Museums and the post-modern. Public Archaeology 5: 3, pp. 185-98.

2006. Disruptive technologies: are museums immune? in: J.Hemsley & S. Keene, eds. EVA London 2006: Proceedings of the conference held 26th-28th July 2006. EVA Conferences International, pp. 14.1-14.10.

2006. All that is solid? Museums and the post-modern. Institute of Archaeology research seminar series, 23 January. Unpublished lecture.

2005. Museums and the interpretation of visual culture (review). Material Religion 1: 2, pp. 281-2.

2005. Out of the dark. Museums Journal (August). pp 26-29.

2005. Managing collections in store. In: Magasinbygningens fysk og funktion. Museumshojskolen, Soro, Danmark. 18-22 october 2004. Postprint. Nordisk Konservator Forbund, Danmark. 4 pp.

2005. Collections: treasure or trash? In: Politics and positioning. Museums Australia Conference, Sydney. Museums Australia. rtf document | PowerPoint presentation (10 mb: run as slide show)

2004. City histories revealed. Literary and Linguistics Computing 19: 351-371.
http://llc.oupjournals.org/content/vol19/issue3/

2004. The future of the museum in the digital age. ICOM News 57: 3, p.4. 1p. http://icom.museum/virtual_museum.html

2003. A DEER for Europe? a Distributed European Electronic Resource. in: EVA London 2003: proceedings. Vasari: London. 10 pp.

2002. 'Preserving digital materials: confronting tomorrow's problems today'. The Conservator, no. 26, pp. 93-99.

2002. 'Now you see it, now you won't: preserving digital cultural material'. Website demonstration in: Museums and the Web. Selected papers from an international conference. Pittsburg, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics.
(This is the easy version of the article above) http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/abstracts/prg_170000679.html

2002. 'Surviving the sands of time'. In: Digital Silk Roads. Conference held by the NII and UNESCO, Tokyo, 2001. NII/UNESCO.

2001. 'In Your Dreams: digital media bring to life real collections'. In: Scanning the Horizon. proceedings of the mda conference, Norwich, 2001.Page of links
URL: http://www.mda.org.uk/conference2001/pub08.htm

2001. 'Introducing the Netful' In: Delivering Diversity: Promoting Participation. Proceedings of the 1999 conference. In Delivering diversity, Proceedings of the mda conference, London, September 1999 (Published as mda Information Vol 5 No3).

2000. 'Museums in the Digital Space'. Cultivate Interactive, issue 2.
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/space>

2000. 'Scientific Instruments: Appearance and Evidence'. In: Papers from a workshop, The Restoration of Scientific Instruments, Florence. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, pp 57-68.

1999. 'A netful of jewels: new museums in the learning age' (ed.). London: National Museums Directors Conference. PDF version

1998. Public awareness, audiences and markets: survey of information currently available. In: Report on the Work of the Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage, Working Group 2. EC DG X and DG XIII, Brussels.

1997. 'Museums and the Information Society', in Proceedings of the conference: Building the Global Information Society for the 21st Century, Brussels, 1-3 October 1997. Theme 2: Services to the Public. European Commission.

1997. 'The World Wide Market for museum information ', in J.Hemsley (ed.), Proceedings of a conference, Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: Eva'97 Paris, 2 Sept.1997, pp. 13-1 - 13-11. EVA conferences.

1997. 'Becoming Digital', Museum Management and Curatorship 15 No.3, 299-313.

1996. 'LASSI: the Larger Scale Systems Initiative', Information Services & Use 16, 223-236.

1996. 'News from the cutting edge', Museums Journal (November), p 42.

1996. 'Worldwide Access', Museums Journal (September), p 37

1996. 'Ghostly Spirits', Museums Journal (May), p 42

1996. With A. Grant and J. Warren. Multitalented. Museums Journal (August), 26-27.

1995. Conservation Techniques: Museum Collections. In: R. Harrison, ed. Manual of Heritage Management. Butterworth Heinemann. pp 205-16.

1995. Objects as systems: a new challenge for conservation. In: W.A. Oddy, ed. Restoration: is it acceptable? Preprints of a conference. Occasional Paper no. 99, British Museum, pp 19-25.

1995. LASSI: the collections management software for the future. In: G. Day, ed. Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway: Proceedings of the Conference held on 10 May 1995. Science Museum.

1994. Real-time survival rates for treatments of archaeological iron. In: J. Podany, ed. Ancient and Historic Metals: conservation and scientific research. Proceedings of a symposium organised by the J.Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute, Santa Monica, 1991. Getty Conservation Institute, pp 249-64.

1994. Keene, S. Conserving the information machine. In: S.Keene and D.Swade, eds. Collecting and Conserving Computers: Seminar Papers. Science Museum, London, pp 30-39.

1993. From junk yard to Aladdin’s cave. Museums Journal (July), 23-26.

1992. With C.Orton. Measuring the condition of museum collections. In: G.L. and J. Moffett, eds. CAA91: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. BAR.

1992. A method for auditing the condition of collections. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Non-destructive Testing, Viterbo. Istituto Centrale del Restauro / Italian Society for NDT, Monitoring and Diagnostics (AIPnD), Rome. pp not numbered.

1991. Audits of care: collections condition surveys. In: V. Todd, ed. Storage: Conference Preprints. RAI / UKIC, pp 6-16.

1990. Building a management information system for conservation. In: K. Grimstad, ed. Proceedings of the 9th triennial meeting of the Committee for Conservation, Dresden. ICOM Committee for Conservation / Getty Conservation Institute, pp 185-191.

1990. With May Cassar. Using standards. In: S. Keene, ed. Managing conservation: Conference Preprints. UKIC, pp 11-15.

1988. Know your enemies: parts 1-4. Traditional Homes, April - July.

1987. The Winchester Reliquary: conservation and elucidation. In: J. Black, ed. Recent Advances in Conservation and Analysis of Artefacts: Conference Preprints. Institute of Archaeology, London, pp 35-32.

1987. Desalination treatments for iron: an evaluation. In: Jern - fremstilling, ned brydning og bavaring. National Museum of Denmark.

1987. Protective coatings for iron. Ibid.

1987. Adhesives and consolidants used in conservation. Geological Curator, 4.

1985. With Clive Orton. The stability of treated archaeological iron: an assessment. Studies in Conservation, 30, 3.

1984. The performance of coatings and consolidants used for archaeological iron. In: Adhesives and Consolidants: Contributions to the Paris Congress 1984. IIC.

1982. With H.Ganiaris and K.Starling. A comparison of some treatments for excavated leather. The Conservator, 6, 12-23.

1981. Waterlogged wood from the City of London. In: D. Grattan, ed. Proceedings of the Waterlogged Wood Working Group Conference, Ottawa. Preprints. ICOM CC Waterlogged Working Group, pp. 177-180.

1981. With D. Hinton and K.Qualmann. The Winchester Reliquary. Medieval Archaeology, XXV, pp 45-77.

1981. With A. Agyrakis. A Guide to Environmental Control for Archaeological Storage in Museums. AMSSEE.

1980. Documentation and information. In: S.Keene, ed. Conservation, archaeology and museums. Occasional Paper no.1, UKIC, p 9.

1977. An approach to the sampling and storage of waterlogged wood from excavations. The Conservator, 1, pp 8-11.

Books

2005. Fragments of the World: uses of museum collections. Elsevier - Butterworth Heinemann.

2002. Managing Conservation in Museums (2nd ed.). Butterworth Heinemann.

1998. Digital Collections: Museums in the Information Age. Butterworth Heinemann.

1996. Managing Conservation in Museums. Butterworth Heinemann in association with the Science Museum.

New media / online

Ongoing. Museums and the Information Age. Online bibliography of links complementing the book, Digital Collections. A resource within ADAM, the Art & Design Media Gateway.
http://www.SuzanneKeene.net

1995-2000. General editor, collections and online features pages in the Science Museum’s website.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

1998. Editor, Exploring Materials CD ROM. Science Museum.

1997. Director and editor, The Information Stations. Multimedia interactive exhibit in the Science Museum gallery, The Challenge of Materials.

Proceedings and reports edited

2006. (ed., with J. Hemsley.) EVA London 2006: Proceedings of the conference held 26th-28th July 2006. EVA Conferences International.

1999. A Netful of Jewels: New Museums in the learning age. National Museums Directors' Conference.

1994. With D.Swade. Collecting and Conserving Computers: papers from a seminar. Science Museum.

1990. Managing conservation: Conference preprints. UKIC.

1989. (ed., with M. Corfield and S. Hackney). The Survey: conservation facilities in museums and galleries. United Kingdom Institute for Conservation. 88 pp.

1985. Corrosion inhibitors in conservation. Occasional Papers No. 4. UKIC.

1974. (Major contributor and editor) Conservation in museums and galleries: A survey of facilities in the United Kingdom. International Institute of Conservation. 115 pp.

1979. Conservation, archaeology and museums. Occasional Paper No. 1. UKIC.

museums, collections, and information