INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC) 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore-560 059 COLLOQUIUM:-3 Museums: An Overview Abstract As a curious organism, we humans are always eager to know about our past. Museums around the world provide the platform to quench our thirst of primeval curiosity. From the beginning of the documented history, humans collected objects which define their surrounding society and environment. As an effect of this collecting and conserving nature, private collection and later museum came into the picture. Museum houses variety of artifacts and objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific importance. Museums aim to serve the various communities ranging from researchers and specialist to the general public. The main objective of this colloquium is to provide a peripheral view of museum, museum technologies and the collaboration between libraries and museums. We will also discuss about virtual museums and the overall challenges. This colloquium is organized as follows: Speakers Topics Dipanjan Munshi Introduction Amrish Dubey Types of Museum Supriya Bag Museum Services Udaya Varadarajan Museum Cataloguing and Metadata Schemas Naveen A Patil Metadata Schemas (Cont..) Harish Kumar T CMS Tools for Museums (open source) Harsha Rathi CMS Tools for Museums (commercial) Goutam Mondal Preservation and Management of Museum Objects Amit Tiwari Challenges and Solutions Susheel K Chourasiya Conclusion Date: 15-03-2017 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC Class Room (G-16), ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.