The last few years several museum networking projects have been started and completed or are still ongoing. The European Museum Network (EMN) and Remote Access to Museum Archives (RAMA), to name only two, are examples of these projects. The museum world is becoming aware that relevant information may be obtained from all over the world, and that co-operation between museums is no longer limited...

The importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) has not yet been recognized by ordinary people. As the effort to involve them into LOD activity, we have developed Yokohama Art Spot, a mash-up application on local museum information to demonstrate the value of information sharing and reuse where data from different communities are used together. Thanks to the flexibility of LOD, it provides useful view...

The design and development of interactlve multimedia applications is a complex and challenging process which is still evolving as the hardware, software, creative talent, production services, publishers, and target markets all evolve at the same time. Compared with other media, such as print, film, radio, or N, interactive multimedia, as a medium that combines many media and makes use of them i...

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Traditionally, artworks are seen as autonomous objects that stand (or should stand) on their own. However, at least since the emergence of Conceptual Art in the 1920s and Pop Art in the 1960s, art lacks any distinctive perceptual features that define it as such. Art, therefore, cannot be defined without reference to its context. Some studies have shown that context affects the evaluation of art...

Knucklebones were ubiquitous objects in the ancient world and they had several meanings, from gaming pieces to oracular dice. The study of a new unpublished decorated knucklebone Graeco-Roman Egypt with ‘Baubo’ image squatting naked woman, preserved at Metropolitan Museum Art New York, offers opportunity explore variety contexts use knucklebones this area: play divination Orphic rituals local r...