CollectionSpace is a collaboration that brings together a variety of cultural and academic institutions with the common goal of developing and deploying an open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information.
Europeana ist eine digitale Sammlung europäischer Kulturgüter, die von der Europäischen Union gefördert wird. Bis 2010 sollen 10 Millionen Objekte online sein.
Manchester museum site dealing with museum policy on human remains and repatriation. Promise of full listing of human remains in collection soon. (7/10/07)
Spadaccini, J. and C. Sebastian, Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2007 at
As 2006 began, there were less than thirty known museum blogs; since then, that number has more than doubled. Today there are well over 100 blogs exploring museum issues, from a range of institutions and individuals across the globe. All of these blogs ha
On the Assembly blog, Catherine Styles posted a paper she presented at the Austrailan Historical Association conference, How Web 2.0 will change history. It contains a brief introduction to Web 2.0 and some examples from mostly Australian websites. One co
What is steve? Steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access to works of art.
Popular Internet applications that take advantage of social tagging – think flickr and del.icio.us – have captured our collective imagination in recent years. Museums have an opportunity to learn from these new applications, using folksonomic classifi