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Enhancing access to digital information resources on heritage

Sattar Chaudhry, Abdus; Pei Jiun, Tan - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 6, pp. 751-776

Purpose – Due to various historical differences in organising, documenting and managing information across cultural institutions, cross‐domain resource discovery in the cultural heritage sector remains problematic. Leveraging on the lessons learnt from current efforts to enhance access to...

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Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums

Vilar, Polona - In: Journal of Documentation 64 (2008) 5, pp. 781-784

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Museum object as document

Latham, Kiersten F. - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 1, pp. 45-71

explored in the convergence of museums and information studies, from the practical to the theoretical. In this inclusive sense …, Buckland's concept of document is a unifying theoretical concept for museums, libraries, and archives. …

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Experiencing documents

F. Latham, Kiersten - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 4, pp. 544-561

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to invite further consideration of how people experience documents. By offering a model from Reader Response theory – Louise Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading – as well as examples from research on numinous experiences with museum objects,...

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Third-party classification

Klimaszewski, Cheryl - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 1, pp. 156-171

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground the ways in which material objects emerged as a kind of classificatory force during a visit to a local museum in rural Romania. It considers ways in which classification both influences and is influenced by the spatio-temporal assemblages of...

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Not just a pretty picture: visual literacy education through art for young children

Lopatovska, Irene; Hatoum, Sarah; Waterstraut, Saebra; … - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 6, pp. 1197-1227

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand young children’s knowledge of visual literacy elements as well as their ability to comprehend newly introduced visual literacy concepts. The study also examined existing support for visual literacy programs from parents and educators....

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What do they make us see: a comparative study of cultural bias in online databases of two large museums

Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maayan; Kizhner, Inna; Minster, Sara - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2022) 2, pp. 320-340

set of ethical criteria to compare the level of bias of six online databases produced by two major art museums … authors applied ethical criteria to the results of the geographical distribution of records provided by two major art museums … as online databases accessed via museums' websites, API datasets and datasets submitted to Wikidata. Findings The authors …

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Walk1916

Cushing, Amber L.; Cowan, Benjamin R. - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 5, pp. 917-933

archival collections in libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) reports examples of single outreach events or discusses outreach …

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Image-based information: paintings in Wikipedia

Navarrete, Trilce; Villaespesa, Elena - In: Journal of Documentation 77 (2020) 2, pp. 359-380

images are used in a Wikipedia article), image view and museums represented, characteristic of network dynamics of the …. Practical implications Museums wanting to increase visibility can target the reuse of their collections in non …-art-related articles, which received 88% of all views in the authors’ sample. Given the few museums collaborating with the Wikimedia …

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Sanctuary: an institutional vision for the digital age

Gorichanaz, Tim - In: Journal of Documentation 77 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17

Purpose Trends in information technology and contemplative practices compel us to consider the intersections of information and contemplation. The purpose of this paper is to consider these intersections at the level of institutions. Design/methodology/approach First, the notion of institution...

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