Hypertext and museum documentation

The Museum Documentation Centre - MDC of Zagreb was founded in 1955, and by widening the scope of its programs and activities has grown to be a modem information, documentation and communication (INDOK) Centre for the museum sector in Croatia. Its initial purpose and the basis of its activities is collecting documentation on museums, keeping records on their activities, forwarding and promoting museums and museum collections. MDC collaborates with museums in Croatia and worldwide, as well as with corresponding foreign institutions such as ICOM Documentation Centre of Paris, MDA of Cambridge, Scottish Museums Council of Edinburgh and many others. The introduction of computer technology brings significant changes and opens a new chapter in the work of MDC, in terms of methods of collecting documentation as well as in the system of its use and presentation.