The Museum Data Exchange, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together a group of nine museums and OCLC Research to create tools for data sharing, build a research aggregation and analyze the aggregation. The project established infrastructure for standards-based metadata exchange for the museum community and modeled data sharing behavior among participating institutions. Tools T...

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Digital content is ubiquitous in all parts of life today. In particular Web 2.0 technology changed the way of communication. It allows everybody to contribute to digital content and to reach a large audience. The possibility to contribute also has an effect on the desire to contribute to “real world” matters. At the same time an incredible amount of information is online accessible without any ...

The increasing adoption of the Semantic Web vision has led to the emergence of a distributed knowledge base in the form of interconnected ontologies. In the context of cultural heritage in particular, digital museums that use Semantic Web standards and technologies, hereafter called Semantic Web museums, have been proposed. Current Semantic Web museums, however, support mostly static exhibition...

We evaluated the usefulness of a Hypermedia Exhibit Guide System, a Hypermedia Learning System, a Multimedia Database Retrieval System, and a Remote Video Question System as museum education tools at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. All the systems were considered acceptable by visitors to the museums,and seemed to help them become more familiar with exhibited artifacts. Among other rea...

Although researchers and managers recognize the tension that characterizes dynamics of museums show a major concern with museums’ performance, lack studies examining organizational antecedents performance is potentially limiting understanding process by which top promote this key outcome. Drawing on literature ambidexterity transformational leadership, we suggest leadership facilitates emergenc...

On 18 December 1873, at Marlborough Street magistrates’ court in London, Messrs Roumanielle, Davidson, and Dennison pleaded guilty to offences under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and the magistrate Mr Knox ordered that their property, which had been held by the court since February, be destroyed. The prosecuting solicitor, Mr Collette, asked for the ‘‘privilege’’ of beginning the destructi...

The appearance of smart models for tourism management has contributed towards a more efficient administration products. However, museums are institutions that have not been explored from this angle and possess great potential their application. This research aims to put forward proposal Smart Model museum define the main characteristics Museum. Although plenty adapting facilities experiences th...