IT ASPECTS OF MUSEUM OPERATIONS

In the current technological environment,operation of every institution, museum included, requiresthe use of IT networks, among them the internet. Thisresults from the fact that museums have their respectivewebsites and web addresses.Regardless of the technological aspects, the use of the internetby museums has to bear in mind legal requirements resultingin particular from the Act on Access to Public Information,this including the BIP page, namely that of the Bulletin ofPublic Information that allows to provide access to this kind ofinformation within the range as defined in the above Act.The requirements of the accessibility of digital websites ofpublic museums taking into account the needs of disabledcitizens is specified by the Act on Accessibility of theWebsites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies.Some of the provisions of the Act with respect to websitespublished before 23 September 2018 will come into forceas of 23 September 2020.In the discussed context it also legal provisions related toIT assets that are of importance; these contain computersoftware and electronic databases. The legal status of theseassets is specified in the provisions of the Act on Copyrightand Related Rights (see its Arts. 3 and 7) as well as of theAct on Database Protection.Apart from the above, which, however, do not exhaustthe whole range of the topic-related issues, it is alsoimportant to tackle the question of the digitizing of theassets (collections) that museums have at their disposal,in particular museum objects and images of peoplethat constitute personal rights, which are digitized anddisseminated online. Apart from the Act on Museums,particularly its Art. 25a, it is the Act on Copyright andRelated Rights as well as the Civil Code that through thegeneral provisions on the protection of personal rights,these also including images of people, give the prescriptivecontext to the problem.