ICT for Museums and Heritage

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The following are useful links for museums and ICT .

link Follow this link to see a short ICT 'tutorial' on the background to the introduction to ICT.

Follow this link to read our short guide to ICT for small Museums

The Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services, provided by UKOLN: the UK libraries network:

One of the lead bodies for ICT and documentation is the MDA. They have a set of useful factsheets.

The Association of Independent Museums has free focus sheets and one on ICT

Collections Link is a excellent site for all things to do with museum collecting and useful pages on ICT

The UCL Museums Studies web site has some useful links here: and Suzanne Keene, who teaches at UCL, has her own set of useful resources here.

Inspiring non technical books I would recommend include:

On interactivity: Meadows. Mark Stephen 'Pause & Effect - The Art Of Interactive Narrative' New Riders, Indianapolis 2003

Hughes, Bob 'Dust Or Magic: Secrets Of Successful Multimedia Design [paperback] ' Addison Welsey,2000

On Design: Williams , Robin 'The Non-designer's Design Book: Design And Typographic Principles For The Visual Novice ' Peachpit Press, Berkeley, 2nd Edition, 2003

Williams , Robin and Tollett, John 'The Non-designer's Web Book: An easy guide to creating, designing and posting your own web site' Peachpit Press, Berkeley, 3rd Edition, 2005

Follow this link to see a short ICT 'tutorial'

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