Reconceptualising Heritage Collections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Museum Collections and Documentation

世界各地的博物馆都在对数字媒体的技术进步做出回应。馆藏数据库及其在万维网上的可获得性是这项倡议的一部分。数字技术改变了藏品文献的潜在范围，但实际上，数据库中保存的信息的质量--它与当前知识的关系、在线用户的需求以及对物质文化研究的新的跨学科方法--都无法与之相匹配。该项目将重新定义博物馆藏品的采购、记录做法，创建一个新的多学科多媒体知识结构，并改革博物馆做法，以解决这些问题，以极大地提高藏品的价值。

Museums worldwide are responding to technical advances in digital media. Collection databases and their availability on the World Wide Web are part of this initiative. The potential scope for collections documentation has been transformed by digital technologies, but in reality this has not been matched by the quality of information held in databases - its relationship to current knowledge, the needs of online users and new interdisciplinary approaches to material culture research. This project will reconceptualise museum collections acquisition, documentation practices, create a new multidisciplinary multimedia knowledge structure and reform museum practice to address these issues to greatly enhance the value of collections.