Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

Museums and the web 2013

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Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History”

Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada; Ryan Wallace and Nicholas Jakobsen, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada; Charles Arnold, University of Calgary, Canada

Abstract

Digital technologies are providing heritage institutions and stakeholder publics with new possibilities for sharing curatorial and ethnographic authority. More than creating access to museum collections, institutional practices of making digital records public have opened spaces for “virtual repatriation” and the production of alternative representations of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

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Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution's MacFarlane Collection to ‘Inuvialuit Living History’

Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy: What it is, how we made it, and why it makes a difference

Edson, M. (2010).  Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy: What it is, how we made it, and why it makes a difference. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.