Museums – Collections – Interpretations

virtual museums and the web: a novel approach to accessing digital collections

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Connecting to Collections in Florida: Current Conditions and Critical Needs in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Elevating Natural History Museums' Cultural Collections to the Linked Data Cloud

An impressive abundance of high quality scientific content about Natural History and Biodiversity is produced in a distributed, open fashion by Natural History Museums (NHMs) using their own established standards and best practices. Managing publication of such richness and variety of content on the Web, and also supporting distributed, interoperable content creation processes, poses challenges...

The Value of Hidden Scientific Resources: Preserved Animal Specimens from Private Collections and Small Museums

Natural history collections have existed for considerable time, and their contribution to research has been discussed and praised in recent decades. In scientific literature, however, there is a general lack of records from private and other small collections. Here, we show that these collections represent a highly valuable resource for research, because they may include an important number of ...

Learning from university museums and collections in higher education: University College London (UCL)

Object-based learning (OBL), drawing on the rich resources of university museums and collections, offers a way of leaping lightly over knowledge hurdles. At UCL, over 100 course units include OBL, translating into 2,500 instances of students working with the museum collections each year. Learners in higher education (HE) can be confronted with difficult topics which become obstacles to understa...