Importance of Secondary Documentation in Ethnographic Museums Issues of information literacy and human factor and establishment of standards for the processing of secondary documentation

The work questions several basic issues connected to information system for the processing of secondary documentation, stressing also the importance of human factor and knowledge management in creating a data base. The move of ethnographic museums towards intangible culture and heterogeneity of material objects in connection with inadequate information literacy and the system of secondary documentation which is still under development, threaten with inadequate processing of material that is, for several reasons, essential for the realisation of the contemporary roles of ethnographic museums. Besides conceptual problems, the work also brings a view on the technical issues related to information systems for the processing of secondary documentation.