TY - JOUR
T1 - The Museum and the media divide
T2 - Building and using digital collections at the Instituto de cultura puertorriquena
AU - Seales, W. Brent
AU - Landon, George V.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1045/may2005-seales
DO - 10.1045/may2005-seales
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:21244457514
SN - 1082-9873
VL - 11
JO - D-Lib Magazine
JF - D-Lib Magazine
IS - 5
ER -