Criação e gestão de catálogos electrónicos em museologia: estudo de caso

Abstract

This article focuses on the interconnection between the creation of museum and the management of information units and the new information technologies as practical means of registering objects with cultural and heritage content. These are also analysed as representative of social behavior. Having in mind the characterization of collections and the use of technological novelties, museums try to adapt some traditional practices to the new realm of innovative computer technologies. As such, combining multimedia elements and electronic catalogs created from Collections Management Systems hypermedia used as primary resource to present museological items gained space. By posting those catalogs in the Internet the museum reveals its relationship with electronic resources. Furthermore, the socialization strategies of the museum on what concerns information dissemination are also made clearer by the use of these new collection management systems. Statements on citizenship and cultural values are made evident side by side with strategies to preserve collective memory in a field where museums have been working as pioneers.