The good news is that there are at least twice as many software packages available today than there were in 1988, when the first edition of the directory was published, and that the products are, on the whole, considerably improved. The bad news is that a substantial number of vendors, and even more software products, have disappeared. In some cases these vendors or products are confirmed dead,...

We have proposed Meta-Museum as a new knowledge sharing environment where experts and novices can communicate with each other with agent support. Museum exhibitions are thought to be well organized representations of the expert knowledge of curators, but they are just one example of structures of knowledge among many possibilities, given to museum visitors in a one-sided way. Therefore, traditi...

The 21st century will see the emergence of a universal knowledge base accessible to the information privileged of the first world. Its elements will include full text of the world's libraries, text and image of its contemporary broadcast media products and large quantities of text and image from its archives and museums. What is not now clear is how archives and museums can best respond to this...

Insects of the family Dermestidae are common insect pests of museums and other sites where historical artifacts are displayed and stored. Trogoderma variabile (Ballion), the warehouse beetle, is a member of this family, and though it is more commonly associated with processed and finished stored food products, it can be found in museums. There are aspects relating to monitoring and control of T...

'fhe journal is edited by David Bearman, whose authorship may be presumed for all items not otherwise attributed. Submissions of press releases, publications, and software for review, articles and letters to the editor are welcomed. Copy is preferred double-spaced. Longer articles will be requested in machine-readabe form if accepted for publication. Deadlines for contributed articles and press...

This paper, based on doctoral research carried out from January 2003 through July 2005, addresses the interpretation and representation of non-Western religious material culture in Western museums and offers a comprehensive view of the way traditional religious Yorùbá objects are displayed in contemporary museums in Britain. Museum exhibitions can be conceived as a visual narrative, which absor...

one of the important features of achaemenid art is the repetition of almost similar motifs and their consistency during this lengthy era. consequently, a large number of researchers consider the presence of the constant and pre-conceived patterns as necessity for stonecarving, sculptors and metalworkers. apparently, this coordination arising from similar repeated patterns is visible in the acha...

A team of staff and students at the Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media came together to research the potential for interactive multimedia in museum programs to contribute to community regeneration. The project was part of the exhibition Play Up Pompey! which celebrates the centenary year of Portsmouth Football Club. The School's contribution was The Team in the Stand, a visitor-authored...

Tourism in the third millennium has become one of the most thriving economic activities around the world, and many developmental planners and policymakers refer to tourism as the main pillar for sustainable development. Tourism is considered as one of the most complicated occupations in numerous countries worldwide and as a multi-aspect activity possessing various positive effects and utilizati...