The Museum as Information Space: Metadata and Documentation
Objekt
Titel
The Museum as Information Space: Metadata and Documentation
Bearbeiter
Karol Jan Borowiecki
Neil Forbes
Antonella Fresa
Urheber
Trilce Navarrete
John Mackenzie Owen
Zusammenfassung
Although museums vary in nature and may have been founded for all sorts of reasons, central to all museum institutions are the collected objects. These objects are information carriers organized in a catalogue system. In this chapter, the museum will be conceived as an information space, consisting of an information system related to different methods of reasoning. We will highlight the new possibilities offered by digital technology and the changes brought by the way in which visitors come into contact with objects. Our central claim is that the visitor moved from being onsite within the museum’s information space to being outside the museum in the online information space of the Internet. This has fundamental implications for the institutional role of museums, our understanding of metadata and the methods of documentation. The onsite museum institution will, eventually, not be able to function as an institutional entity on the Internet, for in this new information space, objects, collections and museums, all function as independent components in a vast universe of data, side by side at everyone’s disposal at anytime. Potentially, users can access cultural heritage anytime, anywhere and anyhow.
Is Part Of
Cultural Heritage in a Changing World
Verleger
Cham
Springer International Publishing
Datum
2016
Seiten
111-123
Sprache
en
isbn
978-3-319-29542-8 978-3-319-29544-2
Kurztitel
The Museum as Information Space