Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

editor — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

Like libraries, museums face the daunting task of preserving our cultural heritage, whilst also striving with the often conflicting need to make that cultural heritage available to us today.

Perhaps differently from libraries, interpretation plays an important part in the work of museums, where exhibitions are often designed around the telling of one or more stories about the past in order to place objects within their historical context.

Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

People, places, and things are identified in any number of different ways.

Overview of content related to 'mobile'

Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

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