Museen und Technologie

A network of more than 1,200 not-for-profit collections across Canada, this Web site’s mission is to develop, promote, and archive digital heritage content. The knowledgebase archived on this site contains hundreds of online documents devoted to collection management, intellectual property, museum standards, conservation principles, and strategies for creating and managing digital content.

An annual conference organized by Archives and Museum Informatics allows museum professionals and developers of Web applications for museums to exchange information on an international scale. Past papers of the conferences back to 1998 are searchable and available in full text.

MCN is a network for information professionals from museum and cultural heritage institutions devoted to examining and exchanging ideas concerning digital media, intellectual property, metadata standards, collections management, and Web development.

Unfortunately, the Web site has not been updated since 2003 while a Transition Committee considers its future, but the site still contains the very exhaustive and informative NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (242 pages in length) for anyone undertaking or thinking of undertaking a digitization project involving cultural objects and resources.

 An art museum social tagging project.