Technology and Digital Initiatives : Innovative Approaches for Museums.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. A Digital Road Map: Developing and Evaluating Museum-wide Digital Strategy -- Chapter Two. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century: The National Gallery of Art's First Online Scholarly Catalogue -- Chapter Three. Embedding a Culture of Innovation at the Frick Art Reference Library -- Chapter Four. The Ur of the Chaldees Project: A Virtual Vision of Woolley's Excavations at Ur -- Chapter Five. Storytelling Photographs, Animating Anangu: How Ara Irititja-an Indigenous Digital Archive in Central Australia-Facilitates Cultural Reproduction -- Chapter Six. A Safe Keeping Place: Mukurtu CMS Innovating Museum Collaborations -- Chapter Seven. Old Meets New: Technology and the Visitor Experience in the Lyons Country Store -- Chapter Eight. Setting the Table for Tablets: Starting Small while Thinking Big -- Chapter Nine. Engaging Primary Sources through Social Media: A Case Study about World War II's Monuments Men Collections at the Archives of American Art -- Chapter Ten. How the Met Museum Approaches Innovation: With Lessons for All Museums, Big and Small -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Technology and Digital Initiatives: Innovative Approaches for Museums discloses the ways in which technology is used as a means of communicating with visitors through podcasts, apps, websites, and blogs; as an educational enhancement through off-site e-learning and onsite participation at interactive kiosks; and as non-site-based experiences through collaborative initiatives providing open access to collections worldwide.

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