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Advances in Data Capture for Museum Collections
Author(s) -
SABOURIN KRISTOPHER J.,
FINNAMORE ALBERT T.,
NAGEL JOE
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1999.tb01144.x
Subject(s) - digitization , grassroots , computer science , automatic identification and data capture , data science , telecommunications , operating system , politics , political science , law
The article presents and compares three methodologies for the capture, or digitization, of data associated with specimens or artifacts in museum collections and describes the “grassroots” level application of computer technology. This approach of data capture is strategic and businesslike, uses the best tools available at the time, and is highly cost‐effective. We suggest that the benefits are so significant that getting up‐to‐date equipment and training workers to use it should be given a high priority. Such equipment is frequently present, but is being used in a way that provides far less real benefit than is possible using the techniques described in this article.