...‐interpretable form. The aim is to show that a museum object located in a museum can be described in detail and then related to other information objects located in other memory institutions such as libraries and archives. Design/methodology/approach Studying different documents, all the information about...

... digital resources from heritage institutions. This paper aims to provide an overview of the development of the People's Collection Wales, which is being funded through CyMAL: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales. Design/methodology/approach Work on digitising various collections in Welsh cultural...

... in the multimedia communications area. Originality/value QoS mechanisms that support multimedia applications in the cultural heritage sector need to become well known by cultural heritage institutions managers and professional associations in the fields of libraries, museums and archives. This paper provides...

...Fotis Lazarinis Purpose Searching for information and viewing visual representations of products in e‐organisations is a common activity of the e‐visitors to these organisations. For example, in e‐museums, users are shown images or other visual information of the existing objects. The aim...

...Ian G. Anderson Edited by G.E.   Gorman and Sydney J.   Shep . Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums . London : Facet Publishing   2006 . 206 pp. , ISBN: 1‐85604‐574‐9   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Libraries...

..., that the survey sample consists of far more museums than other types of memory institutions. Research limitations/implications The research concerned is by no means a comprehensive or an all‐inclusive survey of all relevant initiatives. It is meant to be an exploratory study of cultural heritage online...

... Digitisation Policies Benchmarking Model. Findings Staff in local government libraries, archives and museums have, until recently, lacked experience in major web site publishing and even in the basic digitisation of locally held heritage materials. Local governments in England have traditionally co...

... cultural heritage resources? This study aims to highlight the major initiatives and developments across libraries, archives and museums, and to provide an overview of the characteristics and features of current major initiatives – specifically of the objectives and purposes of the exhibitions...

...Roxane Bernier; Jonathan P. Bowen Online forums help in stimulating debates and reflection on a wide range of cultural topics, as well as providing answers for museum professionals working in specialised areas. The main objective of this paper is to concentrate on the relevance of individuals...

... of these projects, clustered according to their particular relevance to the world of museums, open‐air sites, libraries and archive institutions. The paper then provides an overview of the technologies with which the projects have experimented. One of the domains where information technologies and multimedia...

...Jonathan P. Bowen Museums have been discovering the Internet over the past few years like many other information provision sectors. Rather uniquely, they span both educational and commercial sectors, with a concentration of the original objects even in this virtual world. In 1994 the author...

...Jonathan Eaton Edited by Julie M.   Still . Creating Web‐accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums and other Nonprofits . Medford, NJ : Information Today, Inc.   2001 . 184 pp. , ISBN: 1‐57387‐104‐4   US$39.50 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Internet...

...D. Hywel E. Roberts; Jean Everitt This paper reports on a project which aimed to ascertain current and anticipated use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in museums in Wales. The project also traced the primary ICT trends in the museum community worldwide, and listed relevant...