Introduction. This paper explores the characteristics of online museum visitors in an everyday life, informationseeking context. Method. A triangulation of research methods was applied. A Web questionnaire survey gave initial, quantitative information about online museum visitors to a military museum. Follow-up interviews (n = 24) obtained rich, qualitative data to validate and elaborate the ch...

Tooth wear can affect body condition, reproductive success and life expectancy. Poor dental health is frequently reported in the zoo literature, and abrasion-dominated tooth wear, which is typical for grazers, has been reported in captive browsing ruminants. The aim of this study was to test if a similar effect is evident in captive rhinoceros species. Dental casts of maxillary cheek teeth of m...

The one hundredth anniversary of the British Museums Association, the association of museum curators, took place in 1989, and was designated Museums Year. Throughout the country museums mounted special exhibitions to publicise their role. As I am the current curator now is a good time to give a brief overview of the history of the anatomy museum at Queen's and to assess its role now and in the ...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

It can be argued that the business of museums is information. Information is of paramount importance in fulfilling the basic functions of collecting, recording, preserving, managing, researching and communicating. Museums need to manage many types of information in the operation of facilities , fulfilling mandates, administering finances, getting members, soliciting funds, acquiring objects, or...

MICHAEL P. HAMMER, MARK ADAMS & RALPH FOSTER 1 Natural Sciences, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646 Darwin NT 0810, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Ichthyology Section, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: ralph.fo...

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction.