Cary Karp (born 3 April 1947), a retired museum curator based in Sweden, has been instrumental in developing online facilities for museums in the context of the

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(ICOM). In particular, he was central in promoting and establishing the '' .museum''

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as President of the international

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(MuseDoma). He has also been a principal contributor to establishment of standards for registration of

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Background

Karp has a PhD in

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

and is Associate Professor of

Organology Organology (; ) is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classi ...

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

in Sweden. He has been professionally involved with museums since the late 1960s. He was curator of the musical instrument collections at the Music Museum in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

from 1973 to 1990, especially concerned with conservation, and rose to be the museum's Deputy Director during the 1980s. He was at the

Swedish Museum of Natural History The Swedish Museum of Natural History (), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes bac ...

1990 until his retirement in 2014, first as Director of the Department of Information Technology and then as Director of Internet Strategy and Technology.

Contribution to museums and IT

Cary Karp has been the Director of Internet Strategy for ICOM. Within the context of IT development for museums internationally, he has been: * President of the Museum Domain Management Association ( MuseDoma), * Chair of the ICOM Advisory Committee Internet Working Group, *

Computer Interchange of Museum Information The Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) was an initiative for museum IT standards under the auspices of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The CIMI project was started in 1990 by the US-based Museum Compute ...

(CIMI) Project Manager, * a member of the Board of ICOM's International Documentation Committee ( CIDOC) and Chair of the CIDOC Internet Working Group, * an at-large member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (

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),Information for Cary Karp
* a member of the editorial board of the international journal ''

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''.

References

External links

Biography
''

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'' conference, 2001. *
Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names, Version 2.1
' published by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 22 February 2006. *
An IDNA problem in right-to-left scripts
' by H. Alvestrand and C. Karp,

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, 13 October 2006. Living people Swedish curators Swedish musicologists Organologists People in information technology International Council of Museums 1947 births Academic staff of Uppsala University {{Sweden-bio-stub