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...

This study aims to examine if and how national culture affects e-government diffusion. To explore the possible relationship, we analyse two sets of international-level indexes: (1) the indexes of five of the societal cultural practices of the GLOBE project [35], and (2) the egovernment development and participation indexes from the most recent United Nations’ egovernment survey [71]. As economi...

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,...

Museums often suffer from so‐called ‘hypercongestion’, wherein the number of visitors exceeds the capacity of the physical space of the museum. This can potentially be detrimental to the quality of visitors’ experiences, through disturbance by the behavior and presence of other visitors. Although this situation can be mitigated by managing visitors’ flow between spaces, a detailed analysis of v...

The environment plays a major role in influencing diseases and health. The phenomenon of environmental exposure is complex and humans are not exposed to one or a handful factors but potentially hundreds factors throughout their lives. The exposome, the totality of exposures encountered from birth, is hypothesized to consist of multiple inter-dependencies, or correlations, between individual exp...

This paper describes a proposal for an interoperable metadata model, based on international standards, that has been designed to enable the description, exchange and sharing of multimedia resources both within and between cultural institutions. Domain-specific ontologies have been developed by two different ISO Working Groups to standardize the semantics associated with the description of museu...