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A draft outline is now available for this upcoming course with Scott
Sayre and Kris Wetterlund offered through the Cultural Resource
Management Program at the University of Victoria
MUSEUM INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Museums hold a wealth of diverse information that is increasingly
recognized as a key institutional and community resource. Recognizing
the dimensions, value, and potential of this information and planning
for its strategic integration and management provide the focus for this
new immersion course. Whether you work with collections, research,
programming, marketing and audience development, or management within a
museum or heritage setting, this course strengthens your ability to:
* define the types of information managed across your institution
* recognize its current and potential strategic value to the
institution and to the communities it serves
* appreciate the role of computer and Web-based information
systems to organize, process, and access information
* identify opportunities to integrate information to enhance
its use and value, and to generate innovative perspectives
* apply principles of strategic planning to identify information
management opportunities and strategies
* identify resources (human and other) required to accomplish
your strategic goals
DRAFT OUTLINE SUMMARY
Monday
Museum Information: The New Frontier
* The importance of information management in the long-term
success of an institution. Expanding the definition, expanding
the scope of museum information
* Presentations/Discussion: Museum Information Surveys
* Assessing the current and potential internal and
external audiences for museum information
* Lab: Individual project brainstorming
Tuesday
Taking the Plunge: Developing a Project Plan
* Developing a museum information plan - assignment
* Lab: Surveying Online Digitization Projects
* Digitization, advantages and challenges of converting the
physical into digital
* Establishing digitization project requirements
* Planning and budgeting for digitization projects
* Lab: Developing a museum information project plan
* Case study
Wednesday
Standards, Systems and Practices: Developing an Institution-wide
Perspective
* Museum functions and the information they rely-on and generate
* Common current practices and roles in museum information
management
* Collection and Digital Asset Management, what goes where and how
to decide
* Standards, what are they? Who needs them and why? Where do they
come from? Common standards by function
* Guest Presenter: Museum Information Standards
* Data conversion, when is it needed and how it is accomplished
* Lab: Developing a museum information project plan
Thursday
Collaboration and Integration: Defining a Resources Full Potential
* Pros and cons of collaboration
* Methodologies for access, pros and cons
* Lab: Exploring collaborative online projects
* Considering copyright and the obstacles it can present
* Advances and challenges of information integration
* The role of Content Management Systems
* Guest Presenter: Content Management Demonstration
* Case Study: ArtsConnectEd, connecting disparate resources
* Reuse and repurposing, new uses for existing resources
* Lab: Developing a museum information project plan - Work Period
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Friday
Beyond Text and Images: Developing and Maintaining Multimedia Resources
* Developing rich media project from museum information resources
* Surveying opportunities for project development
* Case study: Restoration Online, Chinese Meeting Hall two
projects
with multiple purposes
* Lab: Exploring online rich media projects
* Planning and budgeting for rich media projects
* Digital archiving, strategies for preserving cultural history
* Lab: Developing a museum information project plan
Saturday
Making Your Work Work: Testing and Evaluation
* User-testing and evaluation strategies
* Case study on usability testing
* Lab: Web site usability testing
* Designing and maintaining a sustainable information strategy
* Presentations/Discussion - museum information plans
* Questions and concluding discussion
Comments from past participants...
"It was very useful for focusing my attention in a systematic way in
developing a project plan... I will implement this plan in real life."
"I liked the final project of a complete project proposal (very useful).
The emphasis focusing on the user and how information can be shared. I
learned a lot about information formatting access and sharing."
"Scott and Kris were very good instructors."
Dates: September 17 - 22 register soon to confirm a space
Location: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Fee: $620 CDN, includes $560 tuition and $60 materials Course
information: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488n.aspx
You can participate on a credit or non-credit basis - for more
information on this course and others offered in the Fall of 2008,
please visit our website at http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria
T: (250) 721-6119
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