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Creating and Managing Digital Content

• Creating Digital Content - Digitization
• Best Practices Study of Museum CD-ROM Production
• Capture Your Collections - digitization tutorial
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• Links - Digitization
• See also...     Intellectual Property

• Managing and Preserving Digital Content
• Digital Preservation: Best Practice for Museums
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• Preservation of Digital Information
• Links—Preservation

• Presenting Digital Content - Web site development
• Analysis of Machine Translation
  
• Best Practices in Museum Web Site Design
• Liberating Heritage Content to Classrooms Via the Web
• Producing Online Heritage Projects
• Tip Sheets: Presenting Online Content Effectively
• Links—Web Site Development

• Research and Evaluation
• Getting the Word Out Using RSS
• On Collaboration and Access to Digital Cultural Heritage Content
• CHIN’s Environmental Scan: Methodology and Findings
• Podcasting and the Museum Experience
• Analysis of User Needs and Evaluation Studies of Digital Cultural Content
• Beyond Productivity: Culture and Heritage Resources in the Digital Age
• Content Scope Evaluation: Determining Audience Interest in Virtual Exhibits
• Research on ‘Quality’ in Online Experiences for Museum Users
• 2004 Survey of Visitors to Museums’ Web Space and Physical Space: Survey Documentation and Findings
• Links—Research and Evaluation

Intellectual Property

• A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Licensing Strategy
• Developing Intellectual Property Policies: A How-To Guide for Museums
• Illustrating Options: Collective Administration of Intellectual Property for Canadian Cultural Heritage Institutions
• Like Light Through a Prism: Analyzing Commercial Markets for Cultural Heritage Content
• Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property
• The Price of Digitization: New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions
• Links - Intellectual Property

• An Analysis of Economic Models for Administering Museum Intellectual Property
• Copyright Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations
• Licensing Images: Checklist for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations
• Protecting Your Interests: A Legal Guide to Negotiating Web Site Development and Virtual Exhibition Agreements
• Sample CD-ROM Licensing Agreements for Museums - Civil Law Edition, Canada, 1997
• Sample CD-ROM Licensing Agreements for Museums - Canadian Common Law Edition, 1997
• The Law, NAFTA and Distributed Environments: Legal Inhibitors to Technological Innovation?
• The Virtual Display Case: Making Museum Image Assets Safely Visible, 3rd ed.

Collections Management

• Collections Management Software Review (CMSR)
• Criteria Checklist
• Collections Management Software Selection (CMSS)
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Archaeological Sites
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Humanities
• CHIN Data Dictionary - Natural Sciences
• Documentation Guide and Suggested Standards
• Sample records
• Links - Collections Management
• See also...
• Museum Collections Management/Documentation Standards
• Procedural Standards

Standards

• Introduction to Standards
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• Vocabulary and Classification
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• See also...
• Analysis of Machine Translation

Artefacts Canada

• Artefacts Canada - Humanities
• Humanities Data Dictionary
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• Natural Sciences Data Dictionary
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Reference Library

• Archaeology Resources
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• Curatorial and Historical Index of Publications
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• Information Technology in Canadian Museums: A Survey (1999)
• Internet Use by Canadian Heritage Professionals: A Survey (1999)
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