Educating and engaging museum audiences in contemporary times is becoming even more important, considering the persistent information society, which has created the need for museums to utilise new methods of communication. Digitisation has therefore become the new instrument for access and preservation in museums. However, the process of digitisation has brought about many challenges for museum...

Two traditions coexist in the use of information technology in museums. The first tradition, museum information systems, stems from the introduction about twenty five years ago of computers in a small number of large museums for the compilation and off-line use of inventories, indexes and lists. Microcomputer software available off-theshelf is used by a considerable number of European museums, ...

This volume is both the record of a conference and the first monographic publication devoted to interactive and hypermedia in museums. It is a great pleasure to be writing the introduction to a book of essays which contains so many important papers and which is addressed both to museum professionals interested in applying the technology and to interactive media developers interested in serving ...

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One of the first projects, was an outgrowth of the Automated Data Processing (ADP) Committee at the National Museum of Natural History which was formed in 1963. The system that resulted from this project was known as SELGEM which stood for 'Self-Generated Master'. SELGEM used text data fields that were delimited by numeric tags and special characters. The system and the source code were provide...

In this paper, we present two programs to fit MW at LEP2 using the best measurable kinematical variables. The theoretical probabilities of observing the final-state kinematical configurations are computed by integrating over the quantities that are not well measured. Therefore, an event-by-event kinematical reconstruction is avoided. MW is then determined through a maximum likelihood fit. CERN-...

The enhancement of efficiency is world-wide trend to survive under intense competition. In recent years, the efficiency in the power industry is also one of the important topics. In case of nuclear power plants(NPPs), the period and quality of maintenance is an especially important factor to increase efficiency as well as availability. Therefore, the accurate identification of the root causes f...

A short overview is presented of several topics concerning the evolution of the Milky Way (MW) in a cosmological context. In particular, the metallicity distribution of the MW halo is derived analytically and the halo metallicity and abundance patterns are compared to those of Local Group galaxies. The inside-out formation of the MW disk is supported by the observed evolution of the abundance g...