SSL Papers
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- Netful of Jewels - New Museums in the Learning Age
- Evaluation Report on CultureNet Sweden
- From Object to Networks: the evolution of museum information systems
- Aquarelle - Networked Cultural Information
- Managing the removal of collections
- Aquarelle: A Resource Discovery System for the European Cultural Heritage
- Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
Papers
"Netful of Jewels - New Museums in the Learning Age"
Mallen, Dr G. L. et al.
Monday 14th June, 1999
This report is published by the National Museum Directors' Conference. The NMDC is a grouping of the Directors of the national museums plus members like the Public Records Office and the Botanical Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh. The report addresses what extra funding is needed, over and above things like the National Grid for Learning, HLF etc, for museums to get fully into the business of exploiting their collections on the Internet for the national objectives of education and social inclusion. It seeks 55 million to create 400 on-line museums by 2002.
George Mallen, of System Simulation, was one of the Task Group Members who contributed to the report.
The launch was on Monday 14th June at Church House Westminster. This was chaired by Alan Borg, Director of the V A, with speeches by Lord Puttman and Alan Howarth, Minister for Culture at the Dept of Culture, Media and Sport.
SCRAN and the 24 Hour Museum were held up as positive examples of the way the museum world has to go. Both of these are SSL clients. Alan Borg announced that Loyd Grossman, Chairman of the Campaign for Museums and moving force behind the 24 Hour Museum had been appointed a member of the National Museum Directors' Conference to acknowledge the 24 Hour Museum's status as a national resource.
For copies of the report contact Sophie Sutherland, Secretary of the NMDC at the V&A. Tel: +44 (0)20 7938 9902/4; Fax: +44 (0)20 7938 9903
Evaluation Report on CultureNet Sweden
Hauge, Jostein; Hedstrom, Margaret; Mallen, Dr G. L.
February 1999.
This report examines and analyses the CultureNet Sweden project. It looks at the socio-political and technological contexts for cultural networks internationally and evaluates the current Swedish model. Recommendations for future developments cover function, structure, technology, and co-ordination with other culture networks.
"From Object to Networks: the evolution of museum information systems"
Mallen, Dr G.L.
Paper presented to Technology in Museums Conference, Oporto, Portugal, October 1999.
The paper has two objectives, one to chart the development of IT in museums through the presentation of some illustrative projects and, second, from this experience to suggest scenarios both for the future development of museum IT and the kinds of organisational change which will be required to take advantage of these developments.
"Aquarelle - Networked Cultural Information"
Cultural Heritage Informatics 1999, selected papers from ichim99, September 1999.
Mallen, Dr G.L.; Stapleton, M.J.
Describes the European Union project Aquarelle designed to provide an information retrieval service for searching across different cultural database systems with differing database architectures. This paper describes the project and speculates on its future application in networked cultural information systems.
"Managing the removal of collections"
Smith, Fred
Museum Practice 10, Volume 4, Number 1, March 1999.
Describes the use of a purpose-designed computer system to manage the removal of collections from Abbey House Museum in Leeds to temporary storage, and to catch up on the documentation in the process.
"Aquarelle: A Resource Discovery System for the European Cultural Heritage"
Stapleton, Mike
Art Libraries Journal, 24/1, January 1999.
Describes the system architecture behind Aquarelle, the flagship project developing the Information Network on Cultural Heritage funded under the EC Telematics Applications Programme. It covers the user model, the architecture for searching across multiple databases and interoperability aspects.
"Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation"
Taylor, Mike; et al.
Paper presented to the meeting of the ZIG (Z39.50 Implementors Group) Palo Alto, Calif. March 1999. Specifies how the Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval across networks can be used to browse hierarchical thesauri as described in ISO 2788.
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