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
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A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. * Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore. * Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos.
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.
s. auch: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20080924sl vgl. Tunsch 2011: http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Kommunikation_f%C3%BCr_Experten "Antinucci hat in Untersuchungen zum Besucherverhalten bedeutender italienischer Museen festgestellt, daß die Wirkung dieser sprichwörtlichen Orte geistigen Lebens als Bildungseinrichtungen eher begrenzt ist.[73] Er führt dies darauf zurück, daß die Museen mit wenigen Ausnahmen dem Bildungsideal eines vergangenen Jahrhunderts verhaftet sind, dessen Wirksamkeit in der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft nicht mehr vorausgesetzt werden kann." [73] Antinucci 2008
The FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.
The Interaction Consortium is building a free, open source web framework specifically for the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. It's called GLAMkit, and it is based on the leading-edge web framework Django, and has out-of-the-box support for public events, exhibitions, visitor info, social media, and hooks for collections, ecommerce, ticketing, and so on.
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)
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
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R. Loverance. CULTURAL HERITAGE on line: the challenge of accessibility and preservation. International Conference Firenze, 14th-16th December 2006, page 232--239. Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, (2006)