Museum Informatics
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LIS 490MUG / LIS490MUU Museum Informatics
- Last Taught
- Fall 2001. A Revised Course for Spring Semester 2006
- Spring 2007: https://hive.lis.uiuc.edu/x/YS8
- Instructors
- Professor Bryan Heidorn
- Professor Michael Twidale
- Time
- Tuesdays 9-11:50
- Location
- 52 LISB
- Class Bulletin Board
- (Leep)http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/cgi/mainclass_spring06.pl?classname=LIS490MUG
- Assessment
- A series of homeworks and short assignments and a final paper
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[edit] Collaborative Course Design
Museum Informatics is a new field of study. Help us to define it. What do you want to learn about? What do you think should be covered? Make your suggestions in the suggestion place linked below. Please put your name by your suggestions. We will consider all suggestions carefully, but there may not be time to cover all the ideas in the class. However they might make good starting points for course projects. Museum Informatics Project Ideas
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[edit] Course Overview
This course will explore how computers are or could be used in museum settings. This can mean many different things including:
- computerized collections records databases
- computerization of the management processes of a museum
- federation of records among museums
- providing online access museum collections
- museum websites
- online web-based interactive experiences
- computer kiosks within museums
- large screen displays in museums
- mobile technologies for supplementing museum visits
[edit] Contexts
There are many kinds of museum, and museum-like contexts where computational technologies can be applied in particular ways, including:
- art museums
- science museums
- museums of culture
- botanical gardens
- historic neighborhoods
- temporary exhibitions in public places
[edit] Who Is This Class Intended For?
This is a class offered through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. It is open to students from other departments.
There are two sections: 490MUG for graduate students, and LIS490MUU for undergraduates. Undergraduates must be juniors or seniors. The graduate section has 4 hours, the undergraduate 3 hours. The main difference is that the graduate students are required to submit an additional paper.
The class is aimed both at people who consider themselves as mostly a museum-interested person or a technology-interested person. In either case we are looking at applying computers in museums.
Museum Informatics is interdisciplinary work and so we hope that we will have students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. By working together on various short projects we will learn how to make best use of the diversity of our skills, backgrounds and intellectual traditions.
