The Museum as Information Space: Metadata and Documentation

Navarrete, Trilce; Owen, John Mackenzie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29544-2_7

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“…To accomplish these two objectives, a proper metadata structure for curating cultural content is mandatory [7]. A metadata policy is compulsory if a museum seeks to develop a strategic plan for increasing digital access to its collections [8]. Going one step further, according to [9], it is crucial for a proposed metadata schema's sustainability to be tested in a practical application context, including its description elements and how they "fit and complete effectively" a detailed (if needed) description of an artefact or a collection of artefacts.…”

Section: Cultural Content Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Museum Performance and Visitor Experience

Philippopoulos,

Drivas,

Tselikas

et al. 2024

Sensors

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Managing modern museum content and visitor data analytics to achieve higher levels of visitor experience and overall museum performance is a complex and multidimensional issue involving several scientific aspects, such as exhibits’ metadata management, visitor movement tracking and modelling, location/context-aware content provision, etc. In related prior research, most of the efforts have focused individually on some of these aspects and do not provide holistic approaches enhancing both museum performance and visitor experience. This paper proposes an integrated conceptualisation for improving these two aspects, involving four technological components. First, the adoption and parameterisation of four ontologies for the digital documentation and presentation of exhibits and their conservation methods, spatial management, and evaluation. Second, a tool for capturing visitor movement in near real-time, both anonymously (default) and eponymously (upon visitor consent). Third, a mobile application delivers personalised content to eponymous visitors based on static (e.g., demographic) and dynamic (e.g., visitor movement) data. Lastly, a platform assists museum administrators in managing visitor statistics and evaluating exhibits, collections, and routes based on visitors’ behaviour and interactions. Preliminary results from a pilot implementation of this holistic approach in a multi-space high-traffic museum (MELTOPENLAB project) indicate that a cost-efficient, fully functional solution is feasible, and achieving an optimal trade-off between technical performance and cost efficiency is possible for museum administrators seeking unfragmented approaches that add value to their cultural heritage organisations.

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Section: Cultural Content Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Museum Performance and Visitor Experience

Philippopoulos,

Drivas,

Tselikas

et al. 2024

Sensors

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“…The understanding and value of documentation in an increasing complex and digital environment is extremely important (Buckland, 1997;Frohmann, 2004Frohmann, , 2009Latham, 2014). There is also a growing literature observing documentation in the art world, particularly museums (Cameron and Mengler, 2009;Goerz and Scholz, 2009;Latham 2012;Light et al, 2014;Navarrete and Owen, 2016;Roberts and Light, 1980). Kopytoff (1988) gives examples of the types of questions you might ask about an object when documenting its biography: where does the thing come from and who made it?…”

Section: Object Biographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, changes in the object's journey will impact the object's identity as they are shifted into different systems of value (Hoskins, 2006;Navarrete and Owen, 2016). For example, from the origin of the object, the sale of object to private collection to its re-sale and acquisition into a museumthe artwork moves across the primary, secondary and tertiary art markets, through market value to fair value, existing in periods of being priceless and priced.…”

Section: Object Biographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opera costumes and the value of object biographies

Waller

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to observe the nature of documentation and the description used in object biographies by an auction house catalogue and an online museum collection database in relation opera costumes. This research aims to discuss the issues of cultural and economic value in relation to objects in the art world, and examine examples of object biographies for opera costumes that are sold at an auction and exhibited in a museum. Design/methodology/approach The object biographies are compared from an auction house catalogue and the online museum collection database, based on two factors: costumes worn by a famous singer and costumes designed by a famous designer. Findings This study identified the valuation methods of auction houses and museums, including accounting for the market value and fair value, as well as social and cultural values. The nature of the documentation also clearly shows the different purpose of the object biographies. For auction houses the biography needs to be short and specific as it provides sufficient information and is read out at the auction, while art catalogues can also be used by experts as part of the conversation to understanding heritage value, and will also be viewed and used by researchers, investors, other auction house specialists and art world professionals. Research limitations/implications By comparing two institutions, auction houses and museums, this study has shown that the information that is documented and how it is presented in object biographies is determined by the goals of the institutions. These goals may vary or overlap in providing information, demonstrating cultural importance, to be spoken allowed to an audience and make sales, or to educate, conserve and preserve. Practical implications This study shows that to some extent museum online databases display their collection removed from cultural context, with an isolated image of the item, and in an organised, digitally accessible manner. A potential implication is that museums should not only digitally catalogue an item, but also provide discussion and the cultural background and significance of the item. Social implications Auction catalogues are written for a specific event (the auction), while the online museum collection database is meant to be a permanent record, which aims to digitally preserve objects and provide access to images and information to a general audience, and further could be edited with amendments or new information when future research or events lead to potential updates. Originality/value This study adds to the discourse on approaches to the understanding of costumes as an art object of significance and their potential cultural, economic and heritage value, particularly as represented in the documentation of object biographies.

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“…The death of the virtual museum is the 'deaccessioning' of the past institutional formats that became available in the web at the disposal of virtual communities. The components of the museum as information space include dynamic sets of information ranging from metadata, paradata and museum itself to content and users (Navarrete and Owen 2016).…”

Section: Originality/valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Decoding Kashgar: A Digital Design Approach to Steer and Diversify Creative Engagement in Digital Heritage

Aydin¹

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<p>Digital tools have become critical instruments in preserving and communicating the value of heritage as important cultural expressions of the past. A consequence of digitalisation is the democratisation of heritage institutions, such as museums, which are found to value increasingly new types of content and new profiles of audiences. Digitisation plays a vital role in the alteration of the convictions of the heritage field to ‘materiality’ and ‘actuality.’ Although researchers acknowledge the significance of digital heritage in leading us into new ways of expressing ‘authenticity’ and ‘virtuality,’ studies have been confined to heritage activities comprised of digital documentation, representation and dissemination. Previous studies have reported on the role of public engagement in digital heritage which is criticised as consumptive, passive, guided and descriptive. Instead, the motivation of this research is to explore a new role that is ‘generative,’ ‘active’ and ‘creative’ for the production of heritage knowledge. This dissertation demonstrates an innovative digital design approach to creative and participatory content-making in digital heritage. The research investigated the use of creative content generated collaboratively for knowledge production and acquisition in architectural heritage and tested in Kashgar, the westernmost city in China. The research conceives an interdisciplinary methodology, integrating design with the standard activities involved in digital heritage. This dissertation is undertaken using different digital media equipment for collaboratively expressing authenticity and virtuality of heritage information. The research examines the role of creative engagement for constructing digital heritage. Creative engagement in a hybrid immersive virtual reality environment is experimented with and findings are analysed qualitatively. Then, to measure the outcome of creative engagement quantitatively, a well-known technique in data mining is used to expose undisclosed patterns. It is the first time in digital heritage that a study employs association rule mining to interpret user-generated content. The qualitative findings of two initial experiments are synthesised with quantitative results of the third experiment to investigate how the creative contribution of people in content-making is generalizable. The investigations foster the advancement of research and practice in digital heritage beyond the frontiers of current knowledge. There is a number of fields that can apply the results of this research, including cultural heritage, computer-aided architectural design, museology, new media, TV, education, MOOC, streaming, as well as culture and game studies.</p>

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The Museum as Information Space: Metadata and Documentation

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Museum Performance and Visitor Experience

A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Museum Performance and Visitor Experience

Opera costumes and the value of object biographies

Decoding Kashgar: A Digital Design Approach to Steer and Diversify Creative Engagement in Digital Heritage

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