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The Web and Contemporary Collecting: A Powerful CombinationJohn Griffiths, Science Museum, London Subsidiary
Session: Museum Applications: Websites as Content Collectors
This paper outlines a methodology for the use of the World Wide Web
as a vehicle for the collecting of contemporary knowledge and artifacts
in certain areas of science and technology. It is proposed that by using
company web sites in the fields of communications and computing technologies
we can set up virtual collections of these technologies on the web and
begin to chronicle their development over time. In addition we can set
up strict selection criteria which can be applied over pre-determined
periods of time so that a representative set of artifacts for the museum
collections can be preserved that truly reflect the successful developments
in these rapidly-evolving technologies. |
