Subject: Article: Research Framework for Libraries, Archives & Museums
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:24:19 -0500
Message-Id: <v0421011cb4db3e5bfef0@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:24:19 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Article: Research Framework for Libraries, Archives & Museums
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
Febnruary 24, 2000
"Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach"
A research framework for libraries, archives and museums
prepared for the European Commission by Lorcan Dempsey
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/dempsey/
Readers will perhaps be interested in this paper written for the UK's
E-Lib magazine Ariadne, by Lorcan Dempsey, director, of the UK Office
for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). It's a paper
developed for the European Commission on the issue of how to develop
a research framework in which libraries, archives and museums could
work together as they move into a shared network space.
Part of the point of the paper is nicely expressed in "the Challenge:"
The digital medium is radically new. Although there is continuity of
purpose and value within cultural institutions, these exist alongside
a fundamental examination of roles and practices. The costs of
developing necessary roles and sustainable practices will be high, as
will the social and
organizational costs of change and institution building. However the
costs of not doing so will be higher, as the cultural and
intellectual legacy to future generations is entrusted to a house of
cards built on a million web sites.
David Green
(with thanks to Alice Grant)
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