Digital Dimensions of the Museum: Defining Cybermuseology's Subject of StudyAnna Leshchenko, RGGU, Moscow

1. Defining Cybermuseology

1.1. Cybermuseology Seen Meta-Museologically

- an applied discipline (i.e. Special museology) or a museological movement?

We are witnessing the growth of Cybermuseology into a wide museological movement, uniting museum professionals all over the world.

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1.1.2. New Professions Appearing in Museums

- the annual reports from the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2008 and 2013 show growth from 10 to 57 members in «Digital Media Department»

- Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg – 33 employees,

- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – 15.

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1.1.2. New Professions Appearing in Museums

- Web Experience Specialist (Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Marketing Department, Pittsburgh, USA),

- Project Manager for Digital Initiatives (The UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, USA),

- Director of Technology and Digital Media (The Dallas Museum of Art, USA),

- Digital Collections Curators

1. Defining Cybermuseology

1.1.2. New Professions Appearing in Museums

- Web Experience Specialist (Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Marketing Department, Pittsburgh, USA), - Project Manager for Digital Initiatives (The UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, USA),

- Director of Technology and Digital Media (The Dallas Museum of Art, USA),

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1.1.2. New Professions Appearing in Museums

- Marketing and Digital Executive (National Railway Museum, York, UK),

- Senior Multimedia Librarian (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar),

- Administrative Officer for Digitization (el Prado, Madrid, Spain)

- Director of Digital & Emerging Technologies (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA)

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1.1.3. Conferences

- Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond (EVA),

- Museums and the Web (MW) and an annual Asian offshoot — MWA (Museums and the Web ASIA).

- Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH)

- MuseumNext

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1.1.3. Conferences

- "La cybermuséologie: une approche muséale contemporaine", AVICOM Fiamp conference, October 16 – 17 2008, Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada;- "Cibermuseologia, Seminar on integration and the role of technology in museums", June 6 2013, Museu de Aveiro, Portugal; - The frontiers of Cybermuseology, a workshop at ICOFOM annual symposium, June 5-7 2014, Paris.

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1.1.4. Monographs on Cybermuseological Subjects

- The Wired Museum: Emerging technology and changing paradigms, ed. by K. Jones-Garmil and M. Anderson. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums. 1997 (first anthology — contains articles by many authors)

- Daniel J. Cohen, Roy Rosenzweig. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005 (first monograph with two authors only)

2. Cyber Dimensions of the Museum use of computers in museums for educational purposes

and supplementary to other multimedia visual aids such as television

virtual museums virtual expositions on museum websites mobile tours storage of information including sound files or pictures as

numbers or electronic signals use of tablets and designing user-friendly content digitization of intangible heritage social media strategies 3-D Printing Digital storytelling projects

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2.1. The Impact of Digital Media on the Museum ExperienceEric Langlois on the use of QR codes: digital experience “gives visitors a sense of ownership of the content related to the objects.”

“Let me explain: Having my own device, a device that belongs to me, that I own, I can see content coming up on my device and I can also take the content home. So it's a real sense of proximity between the institution, the museum's scientific dialogue, and the visitor. What can also take place is a dialogue between devices, meaning, an exchange of information between users of mobile devices”

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2.2. Definition

Cybermuseology is an intellectual discourse that is developed around all the applications of computer and digital-related technologies of today and the future by museums.

by Anna Leshchenkofor #ICOFOM2014,

'Frontiers of Cybermuseology' workshop