ICT for Museums and Heritage

Key Resources

The following are some of the sites mentioned in the Course Handbook but abstracted here for ease of reference:

UCL

Free online courses provided by UCL .

(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/training/netskills.htm)

Course Web Site

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/digit/index.html

Suzanne Keen's Web Site http://www.suzannekeene.info/infoage/

Kevin Flude's web site

Assignments

You will find answers to many Frequently Asked Questions about assignments on the Digitisation course website:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/digit/assess.html

For advice writing a report:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/report.html

Websites made by previous students.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/weblist-full.html

The course blog:

http://www.ucl-culturati.blogspot.com

Health and safety

UCL has a Health and Safety policy and code of practice which covers the use of computers, etc. You should consult the links to information and guidance on http://www.ucl.ac.uk/efd/safety_services_www/guidance/dse/index.htm.

ICT

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

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/gpg/

ICT (information and communications technologies) fact sheets from the MDA.

http://www.mda.org.uk/facts.htm – ICT

Aim Focus Paper 'ICT for Museums':

http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/images/cms/focus-papers

Collections Link Good advice on collections – including ICT

http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/

Coverdale bible

Cunliffe, E., Kritou, E., and Tudhope, D. Usability Evaluation for Museum Web Sites. Museum Management & Curatorship, 2001. INST ARCH Teaching Collection 3178 (this journal is also available on-line)

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

Multimedia

The Museum Virtual Tour Design Guide:

http://www.cae.org.uk/pdf/virtualtourguide.pdf

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