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  • CHIN - The Year in Perspective 2004-2005
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Creating and Managing Digital Content

• Creating Digital Content - Digitization
  • Capture Your Collections - digitization tutorial
  • Digitization Standards for the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: scan and artifacts photography
  • Going digital...
  • Hardware and Software - reviews and resources
  • Links - Digitization
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  • Intellectual Property
  • Interview with Kirstin Evenden on the Glenbow Museum's experience in creating Learning Objects
  • Online Course: Digitization Fundamentals

• Managing and Preserving Digital Content
  • Digital Obsolescence Case Study - Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada
  • Digital Preservation: Best Practice for Museums
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  • Preservation of Digital Information
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  • Ten good reasons to do digital preservation
  • Rules to avoid obsolescence traps
  • Online Courses: Concepts for Developing Digital Preservation Policies and Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems

• Presenting Digital Content - Web site development
  • Best Practices in Museum Web Site Design
  • Create Accessible Museum Websites
  • Liberating Heritage Content to Classrooms via the Web
  • Producing Online Heritage Projects
  • Semantic Web
  • Social Computing from the McCord Museum's Website
  • Tip Sheets: Presenting Online Content Effectively
  • Links-Web Site Development
  • See also...
  • Listen to Jim Spadaccini and Bernadette Goldstein on audience engagement through e-learning
  • Online Courses: Storyline Development and Project Management for Community Museums and Museums Learning 2.0
  • Read CHIN roundtable 2006: E-learning in museums

• Research and Evaluation
  • Audience-Based Measures of Success
  • Beyond Productivity: Culture and Heritage Resources in the Digital Age
  • CHIN's Environmental Scan: Methodology and Findings
  • Content Scope Evaluation: Determining Audience Interest in Virtual Exhibits
  • Research on 'Quality' in Online Experiences for Museum Users
  • RSS: Really simple information dissemination for museums.
    Or is it?
  • Web Analytics - Measuring for Success
  • 2004 Survey of Visitors to Museums' Web Space and Physical Space: Survey Documentation and Findings
  • Links-Research and Evaluation
  • See also...
  • Listen to Darren Peacock on the ways the web changes organizations such as museums

Intellectual Property

• A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Licensing Strategy
• Developing Intellectual Property Policies: A How -To Guide for Museums
• Illustrating Options: Collective Administration of Intellectual Property for Canadian Cultural Heritage Institutions
• Like Light Through a Prism: Analyzing Commercial Markets for Cultural Heritage Content
• Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property
• The Price of Digitization: New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions
• Links - Intellectual Property

• An Analysis of Economic Models for Administering Museum Intellectual Property
• Copyright Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations
• Licensing Images: Checklist for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations
• Protecting Your Interests: A Legal Guide to Negotiating Web Site Development and Virtual Exhibition Agreements
• Sample CD-ROM Licensing Agreements for Museums - Civil Law Edition, Canada, 1997
• Sample CD-ROM Licensing Agreements for Museums - Canadian Common Law Edition, 1997
• The Law, NAFTA and Distributed Environments: Legal Inhibitors to Technological Innovation?
• The Virtual Display Case: Making Museum Image Assets Safely Visible, 3rd ed.

Collections Management

• Collections Management Software Review
• Collections Management Software Review – Criteria Checklist
• Collections Management Software Selection
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Archaeological Sites
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Humanities
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Natural Sciences
• Links - Collections Management
• See also...
  • Museum Collections Management/Documentation Standards
  • Procedural Standards

Standards

• Introduction to Standards
• Metadata Standards for Museum Cataloguing
• Vocabulary and Classification
• Data Format Standards
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• See also...
• Analysis of Machine Translation

Artefacts Canada

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Reference Library

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• Heritage Law Bibliography
• Information Technology in Canadian Museums: A Survey (1999)
• Internet Use by Canadian Heritage Professionals: A Survey (1999)
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• Parks Canada Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects
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