Welcome to the Home page of the Museum Archive Software Project.
This onlinw archive contains the digitised social objects of a virtual ‘Museum of Landscape and Meaning’. It is being curated by Resilience-UK to demonstrate and promote the creation of ecomuseums to stimulate local community action for social benefits. In this sense it is an anthology consisting of a collection of rewarding objects to be used by its viewers at will.
1 The objects
1.1 The social objects consist of pictures, communities, landscapes, text and the spoken word, all cross-referenced to maps.
1.2 Pictured objects are contained in the archive.
1.3 All other objects are referenced to particular Uniform Resource Indicators (URLs). A URL, also known as the web address, is a formatted text string used by Web browsers, email clients and other software to identify a network resource on the Internet. Network resources are files that can be plain Web pages, text documents, graphics, or programmes.
1.4 To activate an URL highlight it, copy it and paste into the address bar of your browser. Alternatively referred to as the address box, location bar, or URL bar, the address bar is a name of the text box used to enter a website's address in a browser from which with a click you can open up the site.
2 Classifying the objects
2.1 Objects are classified as belonging to one of the following 12 General Categories.
Archeology, Art, Audio, Documents, Geology, History, Maps, Nature, Oral histories, Photographs, Printed material, Video.
These 12 General Categories are supplemented by a thirteenth General Category called 'Other Objects' to cover any additional object types that may be required for a particular museum. For example, this is the archive of an ecomuseum and important sub categories of Other Objects are 'Landscapes' and 'Websites of Communities'. All general categories can have an unlimited number of sub-categories .
Each object has an archive form in which the curator enters its attributes. The online form displays the following three sections: Details, Images and Notes
3 Interegating the archive
3.1 All of the museum's objects are held as alphabetical lists by name, keyword and category. Each list is accessed by clicking on the tabs ‘by-NAME’, ‘by-KEYWORD’ or ‘by-CATEGORY’. The appropriate list will open at the first letter of the alphabet which contains a record beginning with that letter. Lists of objects beginning with other letters can be accessed by clicking its first letter in the row of tabs.
3.2 Details of each object that appears in a list are accessed by clicking on the subject name highlighted in blue. Then, three kinds of information about it can be opened up by clicking on ‘Details’, ‘Images’ or ‘Notes’.