Bringing Museums’ Cultural and Scientific Heritages to the Communities
Chiung-min Tsai
From the world class National Palace Museum to small art galleries, museums around Taiwan are adopting new information technology to provide better service for visitors. Unlike large museums with funding and in-house experts, many small museums and galleries in Taiwan often have to explore their creativity to overcome the resource restriction. Virtual exhibits, online collections, and even collection management databases are beyond the reach of such small institutes due to small staffs, shoestring budgets, and a lack of technical skill. The management and technology-adopting experience of small museums will be provided in the case of National Taiwan University (NTU) Museums Digitalization Project.
The Museums in National Taiwan University house one of the most comprehensive records of natural and cultural history of the island. The NTU Museums Digitalization Project aims at making the university’s cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use on-line. It builds on the university’s rich research legacy, combining multilingual environment with technological advances and new business models. Information visualization technology and applications are utilized to help users perceive information better and assist researchers in managing digital collections. The project has brought the university’s museum collections on-line and has made more than100000 valuable digital objects, from anthropology to zoology, available to a wider audience.
The NTU Museums Digitalization Project has produced museum installations and websites that visualize and popularize digital archives in combination with contemporary assets created by faculty, students and residents in the university community. A few practices will be illustrated to exemplify how the diverse participations from students, visitors and residents can be integrated into this project. This presentation will demonstrate the implementation and works-in-progress of the project, as well as its impacts on academic society and its services to the public.
From the world class National Palace Museum to small art galleries, museums around Taiwan are adopting new information technology to provide better service for visitors. Unlike large museums with funding and in-house experts, many small museums and galleries in Taiwan often have to explore their creativity to overcome the resource restriction. Virtual exhibits, online collections, and even collection management databases are beyond the reach of such small institutes due to small staffs, shoestring budgets, and a lack of technical skill. The management and technology-adopting experience of small museums will be provided in the case of National Taiwan University (NTU) Museums Digitalization Project.
The Museums in National Taiwan University house one of the most comprehensive records of natural and cultural history of the island. The NTU Museums Digitalization Project aims at making the university’s cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use on-line. It builds on the university’s rich research legacy, combining multilingual environment with technological advances and new business models. Information visualization technology and applications are utilized to help users perceive information better and assist researchers in managing digital collections. The project has brought the university’s museum collections on-line and has made more than100000 valuable digital objects, from anthropology to zoology, available to a wider audience.
The NTU Museums Digitalization Project has produced museum installations and websites that visualize and popularize digital archives in combination with contemporary assets created by faculty, students and residents in the university community. A few practices will be illustrated to exemplify how the diverse participations from students, visitors and residents can be integrated into this project. This presentation will demonstrate the implementation and works-in-progress of the project, as well as its impacts on academic society and its services to the public.
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