The paper informs about the project Interoperability in memory institutions (INTERMI) in Czechia realized by the National Library of the Czech Republic and National Archive within Applied research and development of national and cultural identity Programme”(NAKI) program funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The purpose of the project is to create scientific and technological...

If we define institutions as the rules of the game (North 1990), it can be hard to separate the cause and effect between individual beliefs and cultural context. I utilise “Cultural Theory” (Thompson, Ellis and Wildavsky 1990) which creates a typology of needs and resources, and four logical strategies that derive from an individual’s expectation about their ability to manage their situation. W...

Open educational resources (OERs) provide opportunities as enablers of societal development, but they also create new challenges. From the perspective of content providers and educational institutions, particularly, cultural and context-related challenges emerge. Even though barriers regarding large-scale adoption of OERs are widely discussed, empirical evidence for determining challenges in re...

This keynote paper provides a control systems perspective of failed internationalised institutional arrangements. In the past years we have experienced dramatic international systems failure across important institutions. Banks, religious institutions and governmental systems have all experienced catastrophic crises which have proven difficult to assess and address. This paper examines these fa...

How does the order that laws and other institutions are introduced affect their performance, and under what conditions will sequencing matter? To gain a foothold on these questions, we construct a formal model of institutional sequencing that includes cultural sway in the form of behavioral spillovers. We derive two broad categories of results: First, we characterize the relationships between t...

The domain of cultural heritage has benefitted, in the last few years, of an increasing use of IT technologies. A wide range of multimedia technologies have been adopted among museums, archaeological sites and libraries to name but a few. Interactive presentations, multimedia kiosks are nowadays often found at the premises of several cultural heritage sites or institutions (Conti et al., 2006)....

The Library of Congress and other cultural institutions are collecting highly informative user-contributed metadata as comments and notes expressing historical and factual information not previously identified with a resource. In this observational study we find a number of valuable annotations added to sets of images posted by the Library of Congress on the Flickr Commons. We propose a classif...

There has been a significant adoption of new communication technologies by museums in recent years. Social media for self-publication, image sharing or online video may provide solutions for museums wishing to interact with communities and audiences in more creative and lasting ways. When social media are incorporated within communication strategies, they enable audiences and communities of int...