The Museum and the media divide: Building and using digital collections at the Instituto de cultura puertorriquena

W. Brent Seales, George V. Landon

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Abstract

By digitizing physical holdings, museums have an important opportunity to provide patrons unprecedented access to manifold media. Digitization of existing collections, which is the museum's form of the content creation problem, is a crucial and technically challenging step in continuing to narrow the digital divide between the patron's desire for rich multi-media information and what the museum actually provides. We present a case study of the issues involved in executing a digital content creation program in partnership with the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena. We focus on the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing the collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints.

Original languageEnglish
JournalD-Lib Magazine
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Library and Information Sciences

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