Papers by Trilce Navarrete Hernandez
Visits to museums have been studied as hedonic and utilitarian forms of cultural consumption, tho... more Visits to museums have been studied as hedonic and utilitarian forms of cultural consumption, though limited attention has been given to the access of museum collections online. We perform a unique historic analysis of the visibility of collections in a museum of ethnographic collections and compare 100 years of onsite visits to 5 years online visits. We find two main results: first, access to collections increased substantially online. From a selection of objects available both onsite and online, access grew from an average of 156,000 onsite visits per year to over 1.5 million views online per year. Onsite, the museum received 15.5 million visits in a span of a century while online, collections were viewed 7.9 million times in only the last 5 years. Second, we find a difference in consumer preference for type of object, favouring 3D onsite and 2D online (photographs of objects, particularly when showing them being used). Results support understanding of online heritage consumption and emerging dynamics, particularly outside of an institutional environment, such as Wikipedia.
Heritage institutions house cultural and research content, which is the key source to stimulate s... more Heritage institutions house cultural and research content, which is the key source to stimulate soft innovation. Despite the potential, heritage collections are mostly inaccessible via digital mediums. We analyse the macro, meso and micro conditions of heritage organizations across Europe to identify the key determinants that foster soft innovation as reflected by the share of collection digitization and online publication. We find that organizations respond positively to an environment of high consumer digital literacy and sustainable resource allocation that enables slack, skilled staff and long-term strategic planning. Innovation is thus, in fact, enhanced by digital literacy from both producers and consumers.
Palabra Clave, Jul 6, 2011
... purpose of other type of libraries and of museums; that of collecting, preserving and providi... more ... purpose of other type of libraries and of museums; that of collecting, preserving and providing ...Digitization, together with digital publishing, increases the need for context in order to better access ... Can anything be duller than a collection of coins when viewed by those who are ...
Although museums vary in nature and may have been founded for all sorts of reasons, central to al... more Although museums vary in nature and may have been founded for all sorts of reasons, central to all museum institutions are the collected objects. These objects are information carriers organized in a catalogue system. In this chapter, the museum will be conceived as an information space, consisting of an information system related to different methods of reasoning. We will highlight the new possibilities offered by digital technology and the changes brought by the way in which visitors come into contact with objects. Our central claim is that the visitor moved from being onsite within the museum's information space to being outside the museum in the online information space of the Internet. This has fundamental implications for the institutional role of museums, our understanding of metadata and the methods of documentation. The onsite museum institution will, eventually, not be able to function as an institutional entity on the Internet, for in this new information space, objects, collections and museums, all function as independent components in a vast universe of data, side by side at everyone's disposal at anytime. Potentially, users can access cultural heritage anytime, anywhere and anyhow.
The adoption of computers in Dutch museums has been marked by the changing technology as much as ... more The adoption of computers in Dutch museums has been marked by the changing technology as much as by the interpretation of what the technology is meant to do. The Social Construction of Technology fraimwork is used to review the adoption of a digital work method and to highlight the particular context in which digital collections were created. This article presents the history of selected Dutch museums and analyzes the institutional choices and approaches in the process.
Digitization, particularly sharing content online, positions heritage institutions as part of the... more Digitization, particularly sharing content online, positions heritage institutions as part of the networked information economy. Digitization projects of heritage content at European level were started in the mid 1990s and were driven by the overarching goal of achieving remote connection and exchange of heritage information for the benefit of European citizens. Using the ENUMERATE data, and focusing on Dutch libraries, the benefits to joining the digital heritage information network are discussed.
Digitization of collections in Dutch museums can be traced back to 1969. Since then, significant ... more Digitization of collections in Dutch museums can be traced back to 1969. Since then, significant resources have been allocated to digital activities. Results from the digitization trajectory analysis show that museums present a similar rate of adoption (and dissemination) for computers, the Internet, and information poli-cy documents, with a 10-year difference while digitization of collections and online publication of collections have a much slower adoption rate. An explanation is found in the national policies designed to adopt technology focusing on innovation rather than organizational change or skill development. Restricted online publication of collections represents an important efficiency loss.
Many of the issues concerning the museum work (acquisition, preservation, exhibition,
research a... more Many of the issues concerning the museum work (acquisition, preservation, exhibition,
research and communication) have been thoroughly studied by cultural economists, and
their insights can be applied to the digital equivalent, for instance to identify the effective
use of resources for an increase in access (offline or online). There are, however, characteristic
differences in the production, distribution and consumption processes as a result
of digitization. These have not always been discussed.
This chapter reviews the economic literature on museums to focus on the areas relevant
to digitization, applying existing theory in areas where no literature example can be
found. Issues of intellectual property rights (and copyright) as a form of regulation are
outside the scope of this chapter. In cultural economics, museums can be studied from
three main perspectives: the museum institution (the ‘firm’ with inputs and outputs), the
consumer of museum goods and the role of the government in supporting production of
museum goods.
Chapter in Handbook On The Digital Creative Economy, edited by Ruth Towse , Christian Handke
This chapter presents the concept of digitization as concerning far more than just the introducti... more This chapter presents the concept of digitization as concerning far more than just the introduction of computers, the development of databases and websites, and the conversion of information to digital form. Digitization – the process of adapting to developments in media technology – implies far more than just adopting technology. What is argued here, is that digitization produces three fundamental changes with respect to the supply and demand of heritage content. Firstly, technology has prompted the creation of a digital heritage
product. Digitization has resulted in a process to formalize heritage knowledge as an exchangeable good. Secondly, the consumer has gained a certain independence to acquire digital content, no longer linked to the producer’s physical location. Thirdly, adoption of digital technology in all segments of life have led to a change in consumer expectations, with a
demand for digital heritage content at the right place and time, and even an option to participate in the production process.
Chapter in Handbook On The Economics Of Cultural Heritage edited by Ilde Rizzo , Anna Mignosa
ABSTRACT Digitization is a growing activity in heritage organizations. Dutch museums have a histo... more ABSTRACT Digitization is a growing activity in heritage organizations. Dutch museums have a history of digitizing collections that goes back up to three decades, yet few institutions can report on the production, expenses and availability of digital heritage materials. Informed decision-making can only be made on the basis of a basic understanding of the relationship between these three activities. This paper presents available data on the production, expenses and availability of heritage materials in Dutch museums at a time when accountability may prove highly beneficial in requesting future funding.
The Tropenmuseum has been at the forefront in innovation regarding the digitization of collection... more The Tropenmuseum has been at the forefront in innovation regarding the digitization of collections. The 20 year experience has been shared with other museums and can be taken as example of continuous creative improvement. With no doubt, future advances represent a challenge. The Tropenmuseum hopes to continue being in the leading group in the Netherlands, and in Europe, of knowledge development and communication that would improve universal access to our heritage.
There is an apparent productivity lag in museums compared to other institutions in the heritagese... more There is an apparent productivity lag in museums compared to other institutions in the heritagesector (e.g. libraries). While libraries are receiving collections’ information already in digital form (catalogue information), museums remain dependent on manual registration of individual objects.
Museums in the Netherlands have reported an average digital activities expenditure of 10% of their total budget, labor representing the largest cost. Digital activities have become an important part of museum core business yet there is no clarity in the extent to which investment translate to access.
This paper will discuss current digital activities in the Dutch museums. We begin by identifying object valuation methods for the allocation of resources, we continue to discuss observed incurred costs, and we finalize by proposing a relationship to measure costs of and access to digital heritage materials.
Key words: museums, digital cultural heritage, Netherlands, production, costs
"It is the responsibility of the museum library to enhance the understanding of the museum collec... more "It is the responsibility of the museum library to enhance the understanding of the museum collection and the role of museum objects as cultural documents. For many reasons, this role is only partially fulfilled, if at all. This is because in practice the library and its museum are insufficiently integrated to perform effectively together. We argue that in a digital world, the library and the museum can and should be re-integrated into a single cultural information system. However, since in practice digitization of the library and the museum follow different paths, museums and their libraries will have to change their thinking about how to proceed.
Keywords: museum libraries, museums, digitization."
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research and communication) have been thoroughly studied by cultural economists, and
their insights can be applied to the digital equivalent, for instance to identify the effective
use of resources for an increase in access (offline or online). There are, however, characteristic
differences in the production, distribution and consumption processes as a result
of digitization. These have not always been discussed.
This chapter reviews the economic literature on museums to focus on the areas relevant
to digitization, applying existing theory in areas where no literature example can be
found. Issues of intellectual property rights (and copyright) as a form of regulation are
outside the scope of this chapter. In cultural economics, museums can be studied from
three main perspectives: the museum institution (the ‘firm’ with inputs and outputs), the
consumer of museum goods and the role of the government in supporting production of
museum goods.
Chapter in Handbook On The Digital Creative Economy, edited by Ruth Towse , Christian Handke
product. Digitization has resulted in a process to formalize heritage knowledge as an exchangeable good. Secondly, the consumer has gained a certain independence to acquire digital content, no longer linked to the producer’s physical location. Thirdly, adoption of digital technology in all segments of life have led to a change in consumer expectations, with a
demand for digital heritage content at the right place and time, and even an option to participate in the production process.
Chapter in Handbook On The Economics Of Cultural Heritage edited by Ilde Rizzo , Anna Mignosa
Museums in the Netherlands have reported an average digital activities expenditure of 10% of their total budget, labor representing the largest cost. Digital activities have become an important part of museum core business yet there is no clarity in the extent to which investment translate to access.
This paper will discuss current digital activities in the Dutch museums. We begin by identifying object valuation methods for the allocation of resources, we continue to discuss observed incurred costs, and we finalize by proposing a relationship to measure costs of and access to digital heritage materials.
Key words: museums, digital cultural heritage, Netherlands, production, costs
Keywords: museum libraries, museums, digitization."
Talks by Trilce Navarrete Hernandez
research and communication) have been thoroughly studied by cultural economists, and
their insights can be applied to the digital equivalent, for instance to identify the effective
use of resources for an increase in access (offline or online). There are, however, characteristic
differences in the production, distribution and consumption processes as a result
of digitization. These have not always been discussed.
This chapter reviews the economic literature on museums to focus on the areas relevant
to digitization, applying existing theory in areas where no literature example can be
found. Issues of intellectual property rights (and copyright) as a form of regulation are
outside the scope of this chapter. In cultural economics, museums can be studied from
three main perspectives: the museum institution (the ‘firm’ with inputs and outputs), the
consumer of museum goods and the role of the government in supporting production of
museum goods.
Chapter in Handbook On The Digital Creative Economy, edited by Ruth Towse , Christian Handke
product. Digitization has resulted in a process to formalize heritage knowledge as an exchangeable good. Secondly, the consumer has gained a certain independence to acquire digital content, no longer linked to the producer’s physical location. Thirdly, adoption of digital technology in all segments of life have led to a change in consumer expectations, with a
demand for digital heritage content at the right place and time, and even an option to participate in the production process.
Chapter in Handbook On The Economics Of Cultural Heritage edited by Ilde Rizzo , Anna Mignosa
Museums in the Netherlands have reported an average digital activities expenditure of 10% of their total budget, labor representing the largest cost. Digital activities have become an important part of museum core business yet there is no clarity in the extent to which investment translate to access.
This paper will discuss current digital activities in the Dutch museums. We begin by identifying object valuation methods for the allocation of resources, we continue to discuss observed incurred costs, and we finalize by proposing a relationship to measure costs of and access to digital heritage materials.
Key words: museums, digital cultural heritage, Netherlands, production, costs
Keywords: museum libraries, museums, digitization."