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| Highlights activities, news, and job opportunities within the strategic group which aims to promote collaboration between museums, archives, and libraries. | |
| An international centre which aims to create or improve conditions for the effective conservation of cultural heritage resources worldwide. | ||
| Resources for conservation professionals. Topics covered include disaster planning and response, copyright and intellectual property, education and training, health and safety, pest management and reprographics. Also contains news and an organisations listing. | ||
| ICOM is devoted to the promotion and development of museums and the museum profession at an international level. Includes history of the organisation, calendar of events and a description of relevant mailing lists. | ||
| Non governmental UK organisation which represents the interests of museum people, museums and their collections. Includes information on publications, policy, events and museum suppliers. | ||
| Museum International is an important information resource for curators, managers, educators, volunteers and museum professionals in a variety of fields: administration, financing, conservation, communication and cultural development. Information about the journal and access to recent articles. | ||
| Information about the role of the Museums and Galleries commission, the type of museums and galleries it safeguards and promotes, news and publications. | ||
| The papers and articles found in the Journal represent the work of conservation and museum studies students from around the world, and have been refereed by academic staff representing conservation and museum studies training programmes. | ||
| Conference paper (January 1999) which promotes a standards based approach to Web-enabled inter-operable information retrieval for cultural networks (such as museums and galleries), using Z39.50 and the associated CIMI (Consortium for Interchange of Museum Information) profile. It presents Z+SQL, the adaptation of the Z39.50 protocol to the SQL domain. By uniting the advantages of the SQL query language with the information retrieval services of Z39.50, Z+SQL presents SQL-enabled cultural communities with a possible solution to their future distributed querying needs, to help facilitate access to their resources. | ||
| Independent museums are managed outside the traditional frameworks of central or local government. The association aims to improve standards in independent museums, to represent their interests and contribute to national policy making. Contains contact details, and brief information about press releases, activities and publications. | ||
| A collaborative effort to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non book collections. MIP works with faculty, collections managers, and curators to develop data models, system architectures, and demonstration and production systems as bases for coordinated and integrated approaches to the application of information technology in museums and archives. Through these efforts, MIP expects to facilitate and broaden access to primary academic collections and data by scholars, students, and the public. | ||
| CIMI is committed to bringing museum information to the largest possible audience. It is a group of institutions and organisations that encourages an open standards based approach to the management and delivery of digital museum information. | ||
| Annotated links to selected Internet resources covering museums, collections and exhibits, conservation, preservation, and restoration. | ||
| Project aiming to encourage cooperation between libraries, museums, and archives under the Fifth Framework Programme. Provides a description of the initiative, partners, publications, services, and activities. | ||
| Information for museum professionals. Contains a trade fair, seminars, news and links to museums and professional bodies. | ||
| Series of papers, workshops and demonstrations presented at the Museums and the Web 1999 conference. Includes input from speakers around the world on topics such as connectivity, collaboration, and culture, convergence and integration online, virtual museums, and digital access. | ||
| Discussion on virtual museums with a selection of examples covering science, culture, and natural history. A virtual museum is defined as a collection of electronic artifacts and information resources, which may include paintings, drawings, photographs, diagrams, graphs, recordings, video segments, newspaper articles, transcripts of interviews, or numerical databases. | ||
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