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The Museum and the Media Divide
D-Lib Magazine
  • W. Brent Seales
  • George V. Landon, Cedarville University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2005
Abstract

By digitizing physical holdings, museums have an important opportunity to provide patrons unprecedented access to manifold media. Digitization of existing collections, which is the museum's form of the content creation problem, is a crucial and technically challenging step in continuing to narrow the digital divide between the patron's desire for rich multi-media information and what the museum actually provides. We present a case study of the issues involved in executing a digital content creation program in partnership with the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena. We focus on the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing the collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints.

Keywords
  • Museums,
  • digitization
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
W. Brent Seales and George V. Landon. "The Museum and the Media Divide" D-Lib Magazine Vol. 11 Iss. 5 (2005) ISSN: 1082-9873
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/george-landon/4/