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"How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector - museums, archives, galleries, arts organizations, libraries and publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards. The result is a confusing mixture of statistics and reporting that reveals little about genuine user satisfaction."

"CollectiveAccess is a highly configurable cataloguing tool and web-based application for museums, archives and digital collections. Available free of charge under the GPL open-source license, it requires little to no custom programming to support a variety of metadata standards, external data sources and repositories, as well as most popular media formats. In addition to multilingual cataloguing facilities, it allows publication of this data in the languages of your choice. "

SmarthistoryTravel apps are for curious, thoughtful travelers who want expert art analysis delivered in a casual, engaging style. Smarthistory brings the artists, patrons, and their worlds to life. Join us as we reveal the meaning and beauty of Rome in a way that the standard guide-books can't.

This paper looks at the use of cell phones for tours of cultural sites in Europe. Although several projects have experimented with IVR, SMS and even multimedia tours on standard and next-generation networks, take-up of this platform by museums has remained low in comparison to US activity, despite cell phone usage being more wide-spread and longer-developed than in North America. Through case studies of recent phone tour projects at Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we examine what the key differences and similarities are between phone-based tours on the two continents, and what each can learn from the other.

Create complex narratives and share rich collections, adhering to Dublin core standards with Omeka on your server, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts. Learn More

The National Archives is the central advisory body on the care of records and archives, in all media, from creation to long-term preservation. These pages contain information for owners and custodians of records, archivists, special collection librarians, records managers and conservators.

Social Media have become standard in journalists' workflows but complement traditional working tools. ... Results also show that Social Media are not replacing traditional channels but complement them. Almost 70% of journalists in all three countries state that they use traditional tools such as press releases, PRs and corporate websites as often today as they did three years ago.

ECHO's most recent web project is Learning from the People, a sub-site on WGBH's site Teachers' Domain. It draws on both Native and 'standard' (Euro-American) sources to examine two themes: traditional storytelling in the Native world, and Arctic climate change.  Museum and the Web 2008 : http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/abstracts/prg_335001722.html

Martin Arnke: Arbeitsschwerpunkte Als Initiator des Fachs „Kulturinformatik" am Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften bestand meine Aufgabe in der Entwicklung eines Lehrangebots, das kulturwissenschaftliche, künstlerische und Informatik-Fragenstellungen miteinander verknüpft und konkret umsetzt. Ich habe seit 1983 regelmäßig Lehrveranstaltungen durchgeführt, bin und war an den Universitäten Klagenfurt und Basel als Lehrbeauftragter tätig. Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsprojekte ist ein XML-Standard entstanden (PeTAL: Picture Text Annotation Language), der nun Einzug in die scientific community hält. Ein kürzlich bewilligtes DFG-Projekt setzt diese Arbeit fort.

"TAP aims to provide tools to easily create and deliver mobile tour applications in a museum setting. Content creation is performed in the content management system, Drupal. TAP tours are exportable into an intermediate format, TourML, which can then be used as pluggable bundles for mobile applications. "