The annual CIDOC conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia May 23. -
27. 2005.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to
February 15. More information about the conference can be found at
http://www.cidoc2005.com.
Regards,
Richard Light
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Worldwide, museums have put in and are still investing enormous efforts
in the field of the expert documentation of the objects and collections
that they have assembled, are looking after, investigating and
presenting. The global information community expects and peremptorily
demands access to the information and knowledge stored in museums. For
whom are we documenting if not for this community? So let us take the
time to consider museum documentation from the point of view of the
user. Are the forms of documentation that we use in museums going to be
just as interesting and relevant to the general public? What kind of
expectations does the public have? How can we affect the museum-public
relationship through documentation?
The theme of this conference is “Documentation and Users”. The list
of sub-topics proposed below does not aim at finality or exhaustiveness,
and every contribution to the theme is welcome:
•From inventorisation and cataloguing to documentation for users:
internal vs external documentation, professional vs public priorities,
visitors vs users
•The impact of users on documentation:
•Interaction, information exchange, community expectations, focusing
on groups of users
•The digital heritage: new forms of museum documentation, contents
management vs collection management, user-friendly knowledge systems,
the Internet and electronic possibilities, digital preservation
•Problems and challenges: additional professional efforts, costs,
copyright, theft, etc.
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Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
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