The last few years several museum networking projects have been started and completed or are still ongoing. The European Museum Network (EMN) and Remote Access to Museum Archives (RAMA), to name only two, are examples of these projects. The museum world is becoming aware that relevant information may be obtained from all over the world, and that co-operation between museums is no longer limited...

The proposed service suggest the visitor a museum which is currently better to attend, based on visitor preferences and current situation in the region. For this purpose, smart environments of region museums have to be organized. The smart environment is a decentralized infrastructure which allows different devices to share required information between them. Every user of the smart museum servi...

Even if knowledge is a commodity that a museum offers as Hooper-Greenhill has argued, the mechanisms of how a museum comes to know what it mediates are not well understood. Using a case study approach the aim of this study is to investigate what types of sources and channels, with a special emphasis on social processes and structures of information, support collaborative information work and th...

An increasing number of museums and cultural institutions around the world use personalized, mostly mobile, museum guides to enhance visitor experiences. However since a typical museum visit may last a few minutes and visitors might only visit once, the personalization processes need to be quick and efficient, ensuring the engagement of the visitor. In this paper we investigate the use of indir...

Nearly 25 years ago, Allan Wilson and colleagues isolated DNA sequences from museum specimens of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys panamintinus) and compared these sequences with those from freshly collected animals (Thomas et al. 1990). The museum specimens had been collected up to 78 years earlier, so the two samples provided a direct temporal comparison of patterns of genetic variation. This was not ...

1 National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, 12, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski St., 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, 12, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski St., 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria 3 Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universite...

Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of herit...

Memory can be modified when reactivated, but little is known about how the properties and extent of reactivation can selectively affect subsequent memory. We developed a novel museum paradigm to directly investigate reactivation-induced plasticity for personal memories. Participants reactivated memories triggered by photos taken from a camera they wore during a museum tour and made relatedness ...

If we consider most museums applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users’ interactions, can give useful assistance. In particular, we focus our attention on how...

otters at the top of the food chain and feeding largely on fish are likely to be especially vulnerable to the effects of bioaccumulating pollutants. this research reports the first data on mercury levels found in hairs of river otters (lutra lutra) from iran. between june and december 2007, we collected museum and recent collections of river otter hair. these samples were collected from several...