New Perspectives on Academic Resources: The Link Between Museum Collections, Archives, and Digital Contents/Exhibitions Shunsuke Yamashita Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology Vol. VII (June 2013)
Abstract Museum collections are composed of specimens and cultural properties of obvious and established value. Keeping information about the collecting phase, including scholarly activities such as the field research through which the collections were obtained, is important. Despite their importance, research materials such as films, photographs, audiotapes, field notes, and research manuscripts tend to get lost amid the framework of the most commonly used repositories—museums, libraries, and archives (also known as “MLA” or “LAM”). This neglect does not imply that these materials are valueless: in fact, they provide valuable scientific data and important records of research activities (i.e., they show the “reality of research”). When combined with collection specimens, they could offer new perspectives on museum activities, especially the less-visible activities such as research, acquisition, and cataloguing. A new approach, the Research Resource Archive, Kyoto University (KURRA), demonstrates how producing digital exhibitions could bond research activities and their resultant specimens together. Keywords: archive; museum collections; research materials; collection-related information; university museum; MLA, LAM http://www.philjol.info/philjol/index.php/PJSB/article/view/3225 STEPHEN B. ALAYON Data Bank Senior Information Assistant Library and Data Banking Services Section Training and Information Division Aquaculture Department (AQD) Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines URL: http://www.seafdec.org.ph Telephone No.: 63 33 5119170 to 71 local 409 Fax No.: 63 33 5119174 Mobile Phone No.: 63 919 4506688 Email Add: [email protected], [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
