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Information for visitors to cultural attractions
Journal of Information Science, 1998This paper examines the information needs of visitors to the Science Museum in London. It is based on a case study at the Museum, but draws conclusions which can be more generally applied to museums, galleries, stately homes and similar attractions. It defines the types of information which various classes of visitors require, the data resources which
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Information access to cultural heritage
ACM SIGIR Forum, 2008The workshop on Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH 2008) was held during the ECDL conference in Aarhus on the 18th September 2008. The workshop provided a venue to bring together academics carrying out research in the area of information access and practitioners working in the cultural heritage field.
Martha A. Larson +3 more
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2015
Fattorello’s seventh chapter deals with information and culture. He discusses the economic effects of information and he differentiates, for the reader, between information and instruction. Culture, he offers, lies between the contingent and non-contingent forms of information.
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Fattorello’s seventh chapter deals with information and culture. He discusses the economic effects of information and he differentiates, for the reader, between information and instruction. Culture, he offers, lies between the contingent and non-contingent forms of information.
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Information Retrieval in Cultural Heritage
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2009This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of applying modern information retrieval techniques to the cultural heritage domain. Although the field of information retrieval is closely associated with computer science, it originally emerged from library science — also one of the main disciplines concerned with access to cultural heritage ...
Koolen, M., Kamps, J., de Keijzer, V.
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Cultural Considerations in Release of Information
Ethics & Behavior, 2002In most mental health professions, confidentiality is probably the most important ethical principle in psychology, aside from nonmalfeasance. However, confidentiality is embedded in the Western values of individuality and autonomy. This creates a moral and ethical dilemma for clinicians working with clients from other cultures.
Durriya, Meer, Leon, VandeCreek
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An Information System to Analize Cultural Heritage Information
2012Managing information related to cultural heritage sites is an important task and much work has been devoted to developing special purpose document management systems. These systems are able to store and retrieve large amounts of documents; however, while this is adequate for some purposes, it is not sufficient for research and conservation work ...
Juan Carlos Torres 0001 +3 more
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Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination
Journal of Political Economy, 1996We show that discrimination can occur even when it is common knowledge that underlying group characteristics do not differ and when employers do not prefer same-group candidates. When employers can judge job applicants' unknown qualities better when candidates belong to the same group and hire the best prospect from a large pool of applicants, the top ...
Cornell, Bradford, Welch, Ivo
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Information Society, Domains, and Culture
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2015Although there is much impressive scholarship by computer historians, there is little that is broad enough to cover more than a single company or a single country, and many historical studies are much narrower than this. In this article, William Aspray briefly describes a useful conceptual tool for thinking historically about information: the ...
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Cultural Dimensions of Information Management
Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, 2003Organisational culture plays a significant role when considering the management of information. The culture of individual organisations is influenced by national culture, and this paper considers the literature relating to the various cultural models.
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