'Unlocking the treasure house with digital keys'- Manchester Museum, 3-5pm
on Wednesday 6th November
Dr Keene is Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies, and a prolific author/editor. Her works include Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections (2005); Managing Conservation in Museums (2002) and Digital Collections: Museums in the Information Age (1998). She is also very closely involved in museum policy and practice, as exemplified by her involvement in the major collaborative project, 'Collections for the People: The Stored Collections of UK Museums as a Public Resource'.
Two current developments come together in Dr Keene's paper next week: the extent to which stored collections in museums are a useful resource, and developments in digital technology that represent semantics, meaning, in web resources, and others that enable users to participate and contribute to those resources. Current research into the uses of collections will be discussed in the light of these developments.
Her seminar is part of our ongoing series, SHOWCASE: The Manchester Museum
Research Seminar, http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/seminars/
Please contact HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]"[log in to unmask] for more details.
Best wishes,
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Dr. Konstantinos Arvanitis
Lecturer in Museology
Centre for Museology
School of Arts Histories and Cultures
Mansfield Cooper Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel.: +44 161 2753018
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museology/
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