"Making Museum Multimedia Information Usable"
by David Beareman and Jennifer Trant, Partners, Archives & Museum Informatics

It is not enough to create texts and images, sounds and interactives for
your museum - you must find a way for them to be found, and once found,
used by others (and even re-used by yourself). The way is two-fold: make
something whose properties can be known (employ explicit knowledge creation
protocols) and describe it is ways others can exploit (employ declared,
open metadata protocols). In this paper the problem facing museums which
are investing in information resources are analyzed; the kinds of
multimedia objects which museums create are described; and the metadata
strategies for declaring the availability of the resource and how to use it
are reviewed. 


Thanks,

David


David Bearman
President
Archives & Museum Informatics
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