1st Edition

Digital Collections

By Suzanne Keene Copyright 1998
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Suzanne Keene's pioneering book shows how museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and electronic communications and, most importantly, how they can take advantage of what it has to offer. By using new technology museums can build knowledge bases around information about collections. A collection object can be the central link for information about past... Read more
What's happening?; Electronic opportunities; Museum collections functions digitized; Building the digital collection; Standards and choice; Making multimedia: a whirlwind tour; Let's hear it from our users: design and evaluation; Digits and people; The wide, wide world; A crystal ball. Appendix. Explanations. Sources and further reading. Index.

Biography

Suzanne Keene