Virtual Museum (of Canada):
The Next Generation

by Steve Dietz, Howard Besser, Ann Borda, and Kati Geber with Pierre Lévy

Foreword

Table of Contents

The Idea of the Next Generation

Scope

Executive Summary

Audience
Interface
Content
Infrastructure
Sustainability

Context

Museums
Networks
Learning
Formal Learning
Lifelong Learning
Emerging Technologies + Trends
Broadband
Rich Media
Computational Environments
Intelligent Systems
Experience Design
Authenticity
Sociability
Gaming
Globalization

Definitions

The Museum-Library-Archive
The Virtual and the Real
Born Digital
Virtual Museum
Virtual Exhibit

Audience

Background
Mass Audience vs. Personal Medium
Audience Profiling
User Profiling
Interpersonal Communication
Cybrid Audiences

Interface

Pattern and Randomness
Browsing
Recommendation Systems
Featuring
Personalization
Database Narratives: From Tables to Stories

Content

Rich Content
Rich Context
Richly Open
Poor Quality?
Born Digital Content

Infrastructure and Architectures

Modularity
Pointing vs. Copying
Addressing Stability
Interoperability + Standards

Sustainability

Integration
Capacity Building
Partnerships
The Public Sphere and Economic Sustainability
Business Models
Brand
Intellectual Property

Appendix 1: Building a Universal Digital Memory

Foreword
The Culture of Tomorrow
The Responsibilities of Memory Institutions
Rethinking Archives
A New Perspective
The Language of Ideas
Digitong
Ideas
Memes
Syntax and Semantics
Ideograms
Algorithmics
Analog Semantic Calculation
Moments, Arks
Semes
Information
Bibliography
Biology, theory of evolution
Cognitive sciences
Collective intelligence in cyberculture
Culture
Digital Arts
Epistemology
Human development
Knowledge economy
Knowledge management
Medias
Networked society and social capital
Pioneers of cybernetics and cyberculture
Semantic Web
Sign and Lanaguage
Visualization & Mapping

Appendix 2: Selected Bibliography

Appendix 3: CHIN Research on VMC

Appendix 4: CHIN Virtual Exhibition History

VMC Report Card
Methodology
VMC Assessment Criteria
VMC Assessment Against Original Criteria
VMC Statistics
Conclusion

Appendix 5: Glossary

Appendix 6: Contributors and Bios

Howard Besser
Ann Borda
Steve Dietz
Kati Geber
Pierre Lévy
The Virtual Museum of Canada Rethinking Group