__NOTOC__ Archives & Museum Informatics is a company based in

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, Canada (and previously

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, USA), that organizes

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, and undertakes consulting,

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and

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in the field of

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, especially for

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

s. Archives & Museum Informatics was led by David Bearman (1950-2023) and Jennifer Trant. The latter is Editor-in-Chief of the associated '' Archives and Museum Informatics'' journal published by

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. The company founded and organized the annual ''

Museums and the Web MuseWeb (formerly Museums and the Web) is an annual international conference in the field of museums and their websites. It was founded and organized by Archives & Museum Informatics and has taken place each spring since 1997 in North America, a ...

'' and ICHIM ('' International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting'') conferences until 2011. It publishes conference

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, educational materials, research reports and articles. It organizes

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s and

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s on the management of electronic records, virtual libraries and

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and interactive publishing,

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management and electronic information standards. Residential seminars are organized on Grindstone Island, Big Rideau Lake, in the

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System. The company offers consultancy for

archives An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ...

museums A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...

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and cultural heritage organizations relating to

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issues. As a member of the '' steve.museum'' steering committee, from 2005 to 2008 Archives & Museum Informatics spearheaded an experiment in art museum digital image

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by allowing the public to introduce new search-terms to the formal catalog.

Museums and the Web

Archives & Museum Informatics founded and organized the Museums and the Web international conference from 1997 to 2011. The conference considers the interdisciplinary museological field of how museums and their users can benefit from the use of the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...

ICHIM

The annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting conference (ICHIM) is organized by Archives & Museums Informatics.Links to past ICHIM papers
It was normally held in

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, especially

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, and covered

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and

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. It included a proceedings. The last meeting was held in 2007.

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