a Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA b Physics Department, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA d Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA e The Johns Hopkins Univ...

This paper examines the development of an information infrastructure involving collaborative technologies at the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It details a socio-technological system that was designed to pack and re-locate 45,000 artifacts across campus to a new museum facility. It addresses the question of how the information infrastructu...

The University of Texas and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian have had experience working together on virtual museum projects that bring indigenous people to the museum for the purpose of “digitally repatriating” important cultural items. The initial virtual museum project provided a strategy for cultural responsive teaching in American Indian schools. They also provided a ...

The visitor to a museum may start the visit with an identity that depends on various short-term and long-term personal characteristics of the visitor, the museum itself and the visit context. Falk [2009] posits that the visitor's identity would be one of the following: explorer, attraction-seeker, professional/hobbyist, recharger, or facilitator. Each one of the identities fits a different beha...

Documentation of art museum collections has been traditionally written by and for art historians. To make art museum collections broadly accessible, and to enable art museums to engage their communities, means of access need to reflect the perspectives of other groups and communities. Social Tagging (the collective assignment of keywords to resources) and its resulting Folksonomy (the assemblag...

In this paper, we describe the application of the novel SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm [1] for the recognition of objects of art. For this purpose, we developed a prototype of a mobile interactive museum guide consisting of a tablet PC that features a touchscreen and a webcam. This guide recognises objects in museums based on images taken by the visitor. Using different image sets ...

Department of Biology, Black Hills State University, 1200 University Street, Spearfish, SD 57783-9053, USA Majorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, 4505 Maryland Parkway, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4012, USA Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, Natural History Museum, CP 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center and Departme...

In this paper, we will present an outline for an online recommender system for art works. The system, termed Virtual Museum Guide, will take the interest that visitors of an online museum express into account in recommending suitable art works, as well as the relationships that exist between art works in the collection. To keep the Virtual Museum Guide similar to a human museum guide, we based ...

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...

This is an invited review of the new volume by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann (2016) entitled "The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran". University Museum Monograph 142, University of Pennsylvania Museum. 408 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 238 illus. ISBN 978-1-934536-83-4 | $69.95s | £45.50). In general, this reviewer finds the book to be of great interest to specialists and students ...