LIS 5590: Museum Informatics

Fall 2022, Mondays, 8:00 to 10:00 PM, Online
Weekly Outline

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Introduction
Week 1) Museum Informatics: People, Information, and Technology in Museums

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Part 1: Digital Objects in Museums
Week 2) Information Representation and Museum Metadata

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Week 3) Labor Day

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Week 4) Museum Visitors, Online and On Site

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Week 5) Mobile Technologies and Artificial Realities

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Week 6) Accessibility and Social Inclusion

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Part 2: Digital Systems in Museums
Week 7) Information Organization and Collections Management

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Week 8) User Needs and Expectations

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Week 9) Information Policy and the Post-Digital Museum

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Week 10) Digital Strategies and Disruptive Technologies

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Part 3: Digital Knowledge in Museums
Week 11) Social Computing and Personalization Technologies

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Week 12) Crowdsourcing and the Participatory Museum

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Week 13) Audience Engagement and the Co-Creation of Knowledge

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Week 14) Digital Culture and Curatorship in Museums

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Conclusions
Week 15) The Future of Information Work in Museums

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