Discovering emerging topics in textual corpora of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums institutions

Convergence of Digital Libraries, Museums and Archives to Collective Memories

This paper describes the effects and resulting information technology support requirements created by the increasing convergence of Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums towards Collective Memories. It provides an introduction into Collective Memory (CM) / Knowledge Management (KM) models as well as into human computer interaction support for such models based on mechanisms of interactive in...

Discovering Emerging Topics from WWW

Discovering emerging topics from WWW has been attracting attention of business professionals, especially marketing researchers. For this purpose, WWW can be a valuable source of information because it reflects the dynamics of human society. In this paper we aim at revealing the structure of WWW by using KeyGraph, a visualization method of hidden structure behind data, for understanding emerging...

Augmenting Museums and Art Galleries

This paper is concerned with the application of context -aware computing to museums and art galleries. The paper reports three studies addressing this issue. The first study involved a survey of visitors to an art gallery and focused on visitor activity and information requirements. This led to the conclusion that one could define visitor types and relate these to the amount, and level of detai...

Development of Systems for Museums and Galleries

Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia

Introduction. This paper explores the current and future skills and knowledge requirements of contemporary information professionals in a converged gallery, library, archive and museum sector (also referred to as the GLAM sector) in Australia. This research forms part of a larger study that investigated the education needs of information professionals who will work in a converged environment. M...