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3.2 The Characteristics of Museum Collections
 

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3.3 The Purposes of Collections

Curiosity Cabinets Month and Workshop
Humanities Research Institute Web site, University of California, 1999
An overview of how curiosity cabinets reveal the creation of knowledge.

Is Collections Management an Art or a Science?
By Susan Raikes, Institute of Archaeology Web site, London City University, UK, May 1996
A discussion about new developments in collections management and the influence of standards and measures on this development.

The Conceptual Integrity of Conservation in Museums
By Miriam Clavir, The Canadian Museums Association Web site, October 1999
Change to how conservators view their field and their work must occur in order to better incorporate and respect the preservation of First Nations ethnographic material in museums. First published in Muse in Fall 1994.

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3.4 Collections Management

Papers by Robert Baron
A range of papers related to collections management and computerization.

I. Papers on Copyright and Intellectual Property   http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/index01.htm

II. Guides to CM by Robert Baron

The Computerized Accession Ledger.  What is the function of the Registrar's paper logbook in the age of computers? (Registrar, 1991):

Using MARC for Collection Management: Arguments Against
 Spectra (A publication of the Museum Computer Network), 1995.

Computerized Collection Management: A Primer
  Registrar (A publication of the Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums), Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 1987), 2-6.

Choosing Museum Collection Management Software: The Systems Analysis: Its Methods, Functions and Benefits
 A discursive paper discussing a wide range of topics relating to
 Systems Analysis and Data in a Museum Setting (unpublished).

The Swap Project Building a Museum Database from the Bottom Up
 A pre-publication version of the paper published in The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship  Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 1989), pp. 11-32.
Readers will smile when they read the lengths taken to build a large
database with limited media, but may find the lessons on database architecture
and systems building still useful. (6/29/98)

Glossary of Typical Collection Management Functions and of Data Systems Suitable for Automation
Systems & Needs Analysis for Fine Arts and Historical Data Projects.
An outline for conducting systems analyses.

Museum Resource List.  An informal list of museum reports, files and documents useful for the execution of an Object Management Systems Analysis

Small Systems: Features and Requirements Checklist for Museum Data Projects

Museum Profile Survey in preparation for an Information Systems Analysis

Deaccessioning: a logic-flow/data diagram from a client museum

Sharing the Canadian Heritage Information Networks Experience - 1998
By Danielle Boily, CHIN/ICOM Canada Web site
A discussion about the evolution of CHIN, its new technology mandate and recent projects.

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3.5 Legal Issues and Collections

The Parthenon Marbles
Multiple student authors, Site administered by Ian Swindle, 1997
A student generated website that details the history of the movement to have the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles returned to Greece.

First Nations

REPATRIATION AND REBURIAL ISSUES

An excellent resource provided by the University of Iowa Department of Anthropology
 

NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT

Image and Multimedia Database Resources
 

Mohapatra, S. "Japan creating global digital museum". The Hindustan Times, (1998). http://www2.hindustantimes.com/ht/nonfram/081098/detnat03.htm

MacDonald, G.F., and Stephen Alsford. "The Digital Museum". http://www.civilisations.ca/membrs/biblio/articles/digmus1e.html

Besser, Howard, and Robert Yamashita The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: the Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley (July 1998) http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/mellon/toc.html
 

"Collections, Content, and the Web". Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). (2000). http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub88abst.html
 

Creating digital resources for the visual arts: standards and good practice. Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and Technical Advisory Service for Images. http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html
 

Museum of Art & Technology. Eyebeam Atelier. http://www.eyebeam.org/museum/index.html
 

Bringing Museums On Line.Bruno Mannoni (mannoni@culture.fr)
 

Valenza, Joyce Kasman. Real art museums without walls. Technology Connection, Feb98, Vol. 4 Issue 9, p10, 4p, 3bw

http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/KR/LIBRARY/MUSEUMS/museum_school.html
Focuses on the advent of the second phase of World Wide Web museums. Important contents posted by museums; Major chunks of collections; Background information and educational activities relating to artists and their works;
 
 

3.6 Conservation

Museum Lighting. A Three-Part Lecture on Aspects of Museum Lighting originally given to members of Forum for Exhibitors, Norrkoping, Sweden by Kevan Shaw.

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