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Contemporary Issues in Collection Management

open access: yesEducation and Research Archive, 2023
This edited, openly licensed, textbook examines several different issues in collection management. Topics covered include physical vs. digital collections; the impact of BookTok on collections; challenges to 2SLGBTQ+ collections ; ebook licensing; ebook pricing; accessible collections for users with physical disabilities; accessible collections for ...
Chiovelli, Chelsea   +30 more
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Heritage in a digital world : Algorithms, data, and future value generation

open access: yesLimina, 2020
Chiara ZuanniThis paper aims to examine the values of born-digital heritage. It focuses on the impact on museum and heritage practices of digital data as consti-tuting heritage objects.
Zuanni, Chiara
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Collecting contemporary science, technology and medicine [PDF]

open access: yesMuseum Management and Curatorship, 2018
Museums are often associated exclusively with bygones. This can be problematic, especially for those who manage science, technology and medicine (STM) collections. In seeking to correct this misconception with contemporary collecting, they also face other problems, especially in scale and complexity.
Alberti, Samuel J.M.M.   +3 more
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From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2018
First isolated using sticky tape in Manchester in 2004, graphene is a nanoscience breakthrough which has captured the imagination of the press and the scientific community.
Sarah Baines
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Vladimir R. Đorđević’s contribution to the development of ethnoorganology [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2020
In the versatile musical activity of Vladimir R. Đorđević at the turn of the 20 century, his research work on collecting primarily traditional Serbian melodies, the smaller portion of which refers to instrumental music expression, is of ...
Zakić Mirjana
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Cardiovascular Risk Distribution in a Contemporary Polish Collective [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of selected risk factors for cardiovascular disease (hypertension, overweight, obesity, carbohydrate metabolism disorders, a positive family history, a lack of physical activity), and to estimate the risk of a cardiovascular incident according to the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE ...
Anita Liput-Sikora   +6 more
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New Futures for Old Collections - Contemporary Collecting and Community Involvement at the National Museum of Denmark

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
In recognition of altered global relations since colonial times, the Ethnographic Collections at the National Museum of Denmark have identified a need to redefine their role in society.
Mille Gabriel
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Festschrift: of mice and myths: challenges and opportunities of capturing contemporary science in museums

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2020
The Science Museum collects artifacts, not organisms. This rule has applied in the Museum ever since its foundation; but in 1989 the rule was apparently broken by our Department of Physical Sciences, which acquired two mice for its permanent collections.[
Alison Boyle
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Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork

open access: yesJournal for the History of Knowledge, 2022
The establishment of a network of collaborators in nineteenth-century Serbia, dedicated to scientific rock specimen collecting, required ongoing negotiation with the state administration over allocation of resources, including the mobilization of state ...
Dejan Lukic
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The Starmach Gallery in Kraków: The Gallery of Contemporary Art in a Former Jewish House of Prayer [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
The adaptation of the former Jewish Zucker House of Prayer as a gallery of contemporary art is a unique phenomenon due to both the complicated history of the heritage building itself and the unique personality of the current owner.
Anna Jasińska, Artur Jasiński
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