Readings:
Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science
Downstream user:
"Digitization, beyond making collections more accessible to researchers, provide access to downstream users such as the general public, government and non-government agencies and private enterprises."
Digital Futures I: Museum Collections, Digital Technologies, and the Cultural Construction of Knowledge
Modernist - "grand narrative"
Postmodernist - network of narratives
First Generation
Second Generation
Next Generation
Voice of authority
Constructivist approach to learning VS threat to curatorial authority
User Cases
-Curator
-Collections Manager
-Educator
-Non-specialist
Bonehead mistakes: The background in scientific literature and illustrations for Edward Drinker Cope's first restoration of Elasmosaurus platyurus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orebody/4428031625/Ancient Seas Exhibit @ Manitoba Museum
http://www.manitobamuseum.ca/main/museum/ancient-seas/
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