Time perspectives: What ‘the future’ means to museum professionals in collections‐care.
Time perspectives: What ‘the future’ means to museum professionals in collections‐care.
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时间视角：“未来”对博物馆藏品管理专业人士意味着什么。
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2005
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W. Lindsay
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摘要 保护者和其他对藏品保护有影响的人需要为这些藏品的未来做出非常具体的决定。决策的成功只能根据其在未来某个时刻的结果来判断。在缺乏客观和明确的时间尺度的情况下，这些专业人士可能会将个人观点应用于他们的决策结果。当“未来”代表决策者的不同时期时，这就是冲突和不一致的根源。对伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、自然历史博物馆以及渥太华加拿大自然博物馆的博物馆专业人士进行了调查，以确定他们对收藏品护理决策中“未来”所代表的时期的看法。受访者强烈认为，当前和未来的馆藏用户的需求应该同等地影响当前的决策。他们还倾向于将“未来”视为 100 年，但所持的广泛观点似乎是大多数受访者的个人选择。关于提议的保护处理或计划的收藏品护理策略的决策似乎应该以对未来时期的一致观点为框架，在此期间，决策结果将是有效的，并对其成功或以其他方式进行评估。
Abstract Conservators and others with an influence on the care of collections are required to make very specific decisions for the future of these collections. Success of decisions can only be judged by their outcomes at some point in the future. In the absence of objective and explicit time scales, these professionals are likely to apply personal perspectives to their decision outcomes. When ‘the future’ represents different time periods among decision makers, this is a source of conflict and inconsistency. Museum professionals in the Victoria & Albert Museum and The Natural History Museum, London, and the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, were surveyed to determine their perspectives on the time‐period represented by ‘the future’ in collection‐care decisions. Respondents felt strongly that the needs of present and future users of collections should influence current decisions equally. They also tended to perceive ‘the future’ as 100 years but the wide range of opinions held appear to be personal choices among most respondents. It seems appropriate that decisions on proposed conservation treatments or planned strategies for collections care should be framed with an agreed perspective on the future period during which decisions outcomes are to be effective and their success or otherwise assessed.