The relationship between museums and mass media as well as the possible impact of information technology on museums are described. The “virtual museum” is defined as a means to establish access, context, and outreach by using information technology. The Internet opens the “virtual museum” to an interactive dialog with virtual visitors and invites them to make a virtual museum experience that is...

The proposed service suggest the visitor a museum which is currently better to attend, based on visitor preferences and current situation in the region. For this purpose, smart environments of region museums have to be organized. The smart environment is a decentralized infrastructure which allows different devices to share required information between them. Every user of the smart museum servi...

1 National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, 12, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski St., 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, 12, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski St., 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria 3 Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universite...

Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of herit...

Memory can be modified when reactivated, but little is known about how the properties and extent of reactivation can selectively affect subsequent memory. We developed a novel museum paradigm to directly investigate reactivation-induced plasticity for personal memories. Participants reactivated memories triggered by photos taken from a camera they wore during a museum tour and made relatedness ...

Even if knowledge is a commodity that a museum offers as Hooper-Greenhill has argued, the mechanisms of how a museum comes to know what it mediates are not well understood. Using a case study approach the aim of this study is to investigate what types of sources and channels, with a special emphasis on social processes and structures of information, support collaborative information work and th...

An increasing number of museums and cultural institutions around the world use personalized, mostly mobile, museum guides to enhance visitor experiences. However since a typical museum visit may last a few minutes and visitors might only visit once, the personalization processes need to be quick and efficient, ensuring the engagement of the visitor. In this paper we investigate the use of indir...

The distribution and biology of the beaver beetle, Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, are summarized for North America. In light of the fact that the beetle uses two beaver species as hosts which have seemingly been separated for some five million years on two continents, it is asked if the Nearctic and Palearctic beetle populations are really the same species. 86 Volume 20, No. 1-2, March-June, 20...