Please note that our upcoming workshop, "Integrating Museum
Information Systems" with Jim Blackaby has been rescheduled to
February 17-18, 1997. A course description and summary follow.
Please also note that there are still a couple of spaces available in
"Financial Management in Cultural Organizations" January 20-29, 1997,
with Pauline Thompson of Science World.
Sincerely,
Brenda Weatherston
Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria
Integrating Museum Information Systems, February 17-18, 1997
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Bringing all your varied collections, research, library, archival,
multimedia, and image materials together in a single integrated data
system that serves everyone's needs has been an elusive goal in most
museums-until the advent of the Internet, the development of full
text retrieval systems, the implementation of SGML and HTML
protocols, shared protocols for multimedia materials, and
increasingly powerful computers. This workshop looks at what you must
consider in designing an integrated system, with special attention to:
- information management challenges and objectives
- uses of integrated systems and implications for data standards and
structure
- data and image management
- planning, programming, implementation, and evaluation
- budgeting, management, and office politics
Instructor: Jim Blackaby is the Senior Systems Developer at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, with extensive experience in
the development of information management systems in museums and
heritage organizations
Dates: February 17-18, 1997
Please register by: January 24
Fee: $220 Canadian (approx. $154 U.S.)
Travel: Victoria is easily accessible by air or ferry from both
Vancouver and Seattle Accommodation: Program staff are pleased to
provide you with on-campus and off-campus alternatives
COURSE SUMMARY
This workshop will explore the development of an increasingly rich
integrated system from existing data. This process involves
manipulating familiar materials in new ways in order to provide
meaningful public access to museum resources. While actually building
integrated systems may be beyond the reach of many museums at this
point, beginning to think about museum information resources from the
point of view of integration is an important and meaningful exercise.
* The organization of information
Thoughts on what museums know, how they discovered it, how they store
and maintain it, and how they distribute it
* Integrated systems
- What they are: how technology can be used to help achieve them; why
you might aspire to an integrated system whether you’re ready for it
or not
- What they are not: the problems technology presents; the
limitations of integration · Examples
* A practical approach to creating an integrated system
- Metadata as a concept and an approach
- Ways of representing metadata with some hands-on examples
- The relationship between metadata and more "traditional" approaches
to representing data
* Representing data
- Issues of representing format as well as content
- Some tagging exercises to prepare materials for viewing on the World
Wide Web
* Manipulating data
- Models, strategies, and possibilities
* Building a simple integrated resource
- A hands-on approach
* Multimedia
- Incorporating bells and whistles
- Thinking about standards for multimedia
- Maintaining multimedia links
* Structuring integrated resources
- Establishing and maintaining relationships between parts
- Integration and such concepts as parent/child relationships;
concepts that bridge data sources; traditional/non-integrated searches
in context of integration; data structure for utility, maintenance,
and longevity
* Advanced tools and techniques
* New directions
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For more information, please contact:
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Brenda Weatherston, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030, Victoria B.C. Canada V8W 3N6
Phone (250) 721-6119 FAX (250) 721-8774
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Visit our Web Site! http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/
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UPCOMING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSEUM & HERITAGE PROFESSIONALS
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Financial Management in Cultural Organizations - January 20-29
Managing Archaeological Resources - Feb. 5-14
Integrating Museum Information Systems - Feb. 17-18
Curatorial Care of Artifacts - Feb. 19-28
Museums on the WWW: Enhancing Your Site - Feb. 19-21
Curatorship: Issues and Practices - March 3-8
Museums in Historic Buildings - Mar. 17-22 at Colonial Williamsburg
Cultural Tourism - April 21-26
On Contract - April 28-30
Inventory & Evaluation of Historic Resources May 7-16
The Multimedia & On-line Museum May 26-31
Linking Communitites & Museums June 4-6
Preserving Masonry Structures June 9-14
The Dynamic Museum: Organizational Structure & Change July 7-12
Public Relations & Marketing Strategies Sept. 22-Oct.1
Planning in Cultural Organizations Oct. 20-25
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