Digital museums and diverse cultural knowledges: Moving past the traditional catalog

Information Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-278

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Boast, Robin ^b   Furner, Jonathan ^a   Becvar, Katherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital museums; Local knowledge; Museum documentation; Ontologies; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449572756     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240903028714     Document Type: Article

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