A Museum Information System for Sustaining and Analyzing National Cultural Expressions

Abstract

Culture is an integral part of the social and economic development of a nation. In the Philippines, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is the overall policy-making body for culture and arts development. NCCA has been experiencing difficulty in collecting and organizing large cultural data sets, which are vital in their decisions concerning culture and arts reforms. We propose a sustainable data collection and analysis method for NCCA, using the museum cultural domain as case study. With the museum-centric information system, valuable information across the museum cultural domain can be obtained, and later translated to information visualization with resulting correlation statistics and reports, showing variables that give context to the performance of a museum, museums in an area, and museums in the country. The museum information system may serve as the information system framework for other cultural domains.