Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bertacchini Enrico
Author-Email: enrico.bertacchini@unito.it
Author-Name: Morando Federico
Author-Email: federico.morando@polito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.de.unito.it/
Title: The Future of Museums in the Digital Age: New Models of Access and Use of Digital Collections
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze how technological innovation is reshaping the role and mission of
museums as producers and distributors digital images of cultural collections. Based on a collection of case
studies the authors identify the main shifting or emerging patterns in models for access and use to digital cultural
collections due to changing users’ behavior and structure of production and access cost in the cyberspace. These
changes create several key challenges and threats to museums as to their role of leading providers of
authoritative and trusted content, to the profitability of digital collections and the adoption of new metrics to
assess their social impact and public mission
Length: 15 pages
Creation-Date: 2011-12
File-URL: http://www.eblacenter.unito.it/WP/2011/5_WP_Ebla_CSS.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:eblawp:201105