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Landscape and cultural heritage: Object and information.

ABSTRACT: Culture and Museology use information and communication technologies as mediating communication tools, enhancing the conservation and "socialisation" of museum collections, promoting access to cultural information, through the interdisciplinarity required between the museologist and other professionals who, together, organize and disseminate the collections. In the age of digital transformation, we live in, this reality is even more evident. The museum transforms objects into perceptible information as it is a repository of information. The common link between Museology and Information Science involves valuing the human action of creating, interpreting, using, selecting and distributing knowledge products and records, thus creating a connection with the concept of information. Information is central to the process of cultural development. This communication clarifies the relationship between Information Science, Heritage and Museology, presenting the information professional as a partner of Museology, working the object as a document with communicative properties, as a message intended for a specific audience and as information that impacts that audience.

SUBMITTER: Carvalho M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10550612 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Landscape and cultural heritage: Object and information.

Carvalho Milena M Martins Susana S Pinto Cláudia C

Heliyon 20230925 10

Culture and Museology use information and communication technologies as mediating communication tools, enhancing the conservation and "socialisation" of museum collections, promoting access to cultural information, through the interdisciplinarity required between the museologist and other professionals who, together, organize and disseminate the collections. In the age of digital transformation, we live in, this reality is even more evident. The museum transforms objects into perceptible informa ...[more]

PMID: 37810812

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Landscape and cultural heritage: Object and information.

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