DIGITAL COLLECTIONS UP CLOSE: RESEARCH OF CURRENT CONDITION AND DIGITAL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS OPTIMIZATION ATTEMPT
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS UP CLOSE: RESEARCH OF CURRENT CONDITION AND DIGITAL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS OPTIMIZATION ATTEMPT

Summary/Abstract: Relaying on and developing the authentic Warren Weavers organized complexity hypothesis of recent social, cultural and scientific moment this paper explores the relationship between analogue, terrestrial and physical cultural collections on one side, and computer mediated contemporary digital collections on the other. Specifically, by exploring the ways on which 159 institutions of culture in Croatia, with legal status of museum, organize their digital collections this paper tries to clarify the theoretical settings, functional mechanisms of representation and upgrading of classical collections within digital information space. The main focus of the paper isto understand the mentioned digital collection manifestations and its organization as entirely equal and ontologically autonomous forms of information production. They are not just extensions of physical and terrestrial collection locations but the places which creates authentic and particular (not seen so far) ways of knowledge organization and production.

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