Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information

Virtual museums provide an opportunity to spark learning through online access to multi-sensory information, and collaboration between sources is needed to efficiently and effectively catalog and present material. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls presents respected authorities exploring the world of virtual collections, from the identification and selection of objects to be included to providing online access using common terminology. Future possibilities and problems are fully detailed, taking into consideration the need for fixed metadata, descriptive standards, and negotiated compromise. Solutions to difficult issues are provided to allow successful development of collaborative virtual museum projects of all types.

John J Riemer, Bernadette G Callery

Foreword (Robert S. Martin) Introduction (Bernadette G. Callery) Searching for Nirvana: Cataloging and the Digital Collection at the Experience Music Project (Marsha Maguire, David E. Motson, Gwen Wilson, and Jen Wolfe) Collaborative Cataloging: Using Dublin Core to Unite Local Heritage Organizations (Kody Janney) Building a Common Catalog for Cultural Heritage Repositories: A Case Study of the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook (Elizabeth Nelson and Laurie Gemmill) Stories Told: Tribal Communities and the Development of Virtual Museums (Mark Christal, Loriene Roy, and Antony Cherian) Chinese Collections in Museums on the Web: Current Status, Problems, and Future (Hsin-liang Chen) Patterns of Identification of Potentially Sensitive Data in Natural History Museum Online Catalogs (Bernadette G. Callery) Index Reference Notes Included