Pub Date : 1989-03-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(89)90063-0
Brian Abell-Seddon
To sum up, in any attempt to reform outmoded manual documentation it is prudent to adopt a reference framework of concepts which is universally applicable. This can form the basis of record-keeping systems that will have the capacity to meet wide-ranging information requirements, some of which may not even be immediately apparent. Such a system has been published by the author and its principal features have been reviewed here. Ideally, any framework of this kind will assist in the transfer of partial or complete records to computer by defining formally recognized elements of information, which can be equated with data units suitable for entry in the structured fields of database management software. The definitive Elements of REFORM will not necessarily be translated into data fields in one-to-one relationship because the computer implementation may involve mechanisms to effect selection and sorting of those Elements with optimal efficiency. However, in a successful implementation the concepts represented in REFORM should not be impaired whatever software ‘vehicle’ is employed.
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Pub Date : 1989-03-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(89)90060-5
Michael Greenhalgh
This paper argues that the constructors of computerized databases have tended either to ignore the needs of potential end-users, or postponed consideration of such needs until such a late stage that the design of the database cannot be altered to accommodate them. This is because frequently they have much narrower aims and a more restricted audience in view. I define end-users as those users, actual or potential, who are not members of the museum department to whom the data belong—everyone, that is, from staff in other departments to those in other museums, as well as members of the general public. Such diversity in set-up and ‘udience’ has decided implications for the way in which the data are presented to the user—the user interface1—and the way in which they are stored and manipulated (the database and its associated language). The whole question is pressing because end-users, driven perhaps by the sophistication of micro software, are now demanding more of managers and system developers: in the uncharitable view of some, they now know just enough to be dangerous.2
Beginning with a brief discussion of the problems encountered in designing user interfaces for On-Line Public Access Catalogs, and the object lessons to be learned from these, this paper suggests that museum databases can be designed to meet the needs both of curators and the general public; and, by examining the problems commonly encountered by naive end-users with publicly available databases, demonstrates that it is the design of the user interface—that is, the simple or complex software between the user and the database itself—that is crucial for the success of increasingly complex projects. The paper concludes with an overview of the potential help that videodisks and CD-ROMS can offer in this matter.
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Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90008-8
David Vance
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Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90007-6
Susan Ward, Patricia Ewer
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Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90003-9
Paul Rivard
{"title":"Made in Maine","authors":"Paul Rivard","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90003-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90003-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 327-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90003-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"112666693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90012-X
{"title":"Publications digest","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90012-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90012-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 403-410"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90012-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136847003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90001-5
{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90001-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90001-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Page ii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90001-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136847005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90005-2
Barbara F. Slivac
{"title":"Preventive conservation training for anthropological museum professionals","authors":"Barbara F. Slivac","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90005-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90005-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 365-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90005-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85093010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90004-0
Julia D. Harrison
{"title":"The spirit sings","authors":"Julia D. Harrison","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90004-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90004-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 353-363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90004-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80056388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0260-4779(88)90013-1
{"title":"Author and subject index to volume 7 (1988)","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0260-4779(88)90013-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90013-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100708,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 411-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90013-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136847004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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