Dear all,
The annual CIDOC conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia May 23. -
27. 2005.
The deadline for the submission of abstract is now February 15. More
information about the conference can be found at http://www.cidoc2005.com.
Regards,
Christian-Emil Ore
Chair of CIDOC
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Worldwide, museums have put in and are still investing enormous efforts in
the field of the expert documentation of the objects and collections that
they have assembled, are looking after, investigating and presenting. The
global information community expects and peremptorily demands access to the
information and knowledge stored in museums. For whom are we documenting if
not for this community? So let us take the time to consider museum
documentation from the point of view of the user. Are the forms of
documentation that we use in museums going to be just as interesting and
relevant to the general public? What kind of expectations does the public
have? How can we affect the museum-public relationship through documentation?
The theme of this conference is "Documentation and Users". The list of
sub-topics proposed below does not aim at finality or exhaustiveness, and
every contribution to the theme is welcome:
* From inventorisation and cataloguing to documentation for users:
internal vs external documentation, professional vs public priorities,
visitors vs users
* The impact of users on documentation:
* Interaction, information exchange, community expectations, focusing
on groups of users
* The digital heritage: new forms of museum documentation, contents
management vs collection management, user-friendly knowledge systems, the
Internet and electronic possibilities, digital preservation
* Problems and challenges: additional professional efforts, costs,
copyright, theft, etc.
