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"An examination of recently-released statistics from Statistics Canada and Business for the Arts related to heritage organizations, art galleries and performing arts organizations."
Creator(s): Hill Strategies Research Inc. | Date Published: 2007-09-26
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"The economic data in this report are based on the 2003/04 fiscal year April 1 to March 31. These data are gathered from surveys given to visitors to the museums, historic sites and interpretive centres managed by the Government of Alberta. The primary role of these facilities is to preserve and tell the natural and cultural history of Alberta – to both Albertans and visitors to the Province. Over 100,000 school children receive educational programs in these facilities each year."
Creator(s): The Government of Alberta | Date Published: 2005-12-01
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"Complete, reliable data about U.S. museums are essential for the development of good policies. These policies will inform federal support for museums, help institute good museum planning and practice, and inform the public about the place and value of museums in their lives and in their communities."
Creator(s): Institute of Museum and Library Services | Date Published: 2005-05
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"Understanding the Future: Museums and 21st Century Life is a consultation paper. It is centred around the 13 questions dispersed throughout the paper and summarised again at the back in the Annex."
Creator(s): Department of Culture, Media and Sport England | Date Published: 2005-01
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"This article reports on a study which used results from 119 scenario–based evaluations of 36 museum Web sites to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum Web sites."
Creator(s): Paul F. Marty and Michael B. Twidale | Date Published: 2004-08
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"The issue of what role the museum - principal custodian of tangible heritage - may play in the collection, conservation, presentation and interpretation of intangible heritage is addressed below, as are the challenges intangible heritage poses to the museum."
Creator(s): Giovanni Pinna - Chair, ICOM-Italy, Member of the ICOM Executive Council | Date Published: 2004
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"The Museums Assistance Program (MAP) is a federal funding program that was created in 1972 for the improvement of Canadian museum collections and displays."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-02-24
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"These tables are part of the Museums and Art Gallery Attendance in Canada and the Provinces Report."
Creator(s): Hill Strategies Research Inc. | Date Published: 2003-01-01
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"The philosophy and dynamics of both direct and indirect support for museum and heritage."
Creator(s): N.L. Hushion and associates | Date Published: 1996-01-30
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"The Heritage Health Index, the first comprehensive survey ever to assess the condition and preservation needs of U.S. collections, concludes that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of millions of irreplaceable artifacts. These findings were announced at a news conference in New York City on December 6 and are detailed in A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections. "
Creator(s): Heritage Preservation - The National Institute for Conservation | Date Published: 2005-12
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"Cultural tourism ethics require all stakeholders to ensure that the visitor combines creative knowledge with the enjoyment of his free time. He should be encouraged to share a social context which, although unfamiliar, invites him to participate in the life and local wisdom of the host community."
Creator(s): International Council of Museums | Date Published: 2004
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"Since the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology opened in 1997, its goal has been to present the intangible cultural heritage within the museum setting. Traditional skills, oral traditions and social practices are presented in craft demonstrations, folk performances, workshops, exhibitions and projects."
Creator(s): Nguyen Van Huy - Director, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology | Date Published: 2004
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"Bibliography: Musuems and Intangible Heritage"
Creator(s): International Council of Museums (ICOM) | Date Published: 2004
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"Cultural tourism represents an area of significant economic benefit to museums and heritage sites. Challenging economic times in particular require cultural and heritage facilities to explore ways and means to increase attendance and self-generated revenues and to control operating expenses."
Creator(s): Ted Silberberg, CMC | Date Published: 2003
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"Not all museums will wish to explore commercial markets for their intellectual property. For those that do, Like Light Through A Prism joins the other volumes in CHIN's intellectual property series as a tool to assist museums in becoming effective business partners."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"Copyright law in Canada falls under federal jurisdiction. Canadian federal law is a composite of both the civil and common law systems. Although Canada's Copyright Act is based on British legislation, reforms in the past ten years have incorporated many concepts from civil law (such as moral rights), and added exhibition rights, as well as a comprehensive system of collective administration of copyright."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"This document contains a Checklist identifying key items to be addressed in a licensing agreement between a museum and a person or company wanting to acquire the right to use a museum's images and information to create commercial or consumer products or for the purposes of sub-licensing."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"There has been a lot of controversy on the role of intellectual property protection (IPP) regime especially the patent system in fostering innovation, technology and industrial development of a country. IPP is expected to encourage innovation by rewarding the inventor."
Creator(s): Nagesh Kumar | Date Published: 2002
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"Museums and cultural institutions have a crucial role to play in raising among their public more awareness towards the fragility of the cultural heritage they are in charge of and the need to preserve it for future generations."
Creator(s): Nicole Gesché-Koning, Université libre de Bruxelles, Centre de recherches et d’études technologiques des arts plastiques | Date Published: 2000
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"The purpose of this paper is to promote discussion on outsourcing issues among the stakeholders of heritage institutions."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage/ASM Advanced Strategic Management Consultants | Date Published: 1999-08-21
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