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can anyone who provides such data for their own institution give me
an idea of the range of places to which UK museums routinely send
things like their address, opening hours, exhibition details, etc?
Is the picture very different for public and private institutions, or
for national and local museums?
On the flip-side, does anyone have anything better than a gut feel
for how their visitors discover where they are? Is there a single
definitive source to which someone might turn in search of a museum
(how comprehensive is www.museums.co.uk/, for example?)?
Does the Public Sector Information Directive coming on-stream in July
change anything?
I'm interested in the ways in which the cultural sector disseminates
basic information about itself, and if the rise of third party
services such as Google Maps (and the interesting applications people
are beginning to build upon it) perhaps offers tools that we might
harness to our advantage.
There's a more detailed post on this topic, with some examples, on
one of the Common Information Environment's (CIE) blogs at www.common-
info.org.uk/thoughts/archives/2005/05/more_thoughts_o_1.html
Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.
Paul
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