Subject: Museum documentation
Course: Museum documentation I
ECTS-credits: 6
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester (summer)
Status: compulsory course
Method of teaching: 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of practical classes per week
Prerequisite: -
Assessment: written report

Course description:
Topics about computer based documentation of museum objects (history, basic concepts, specific procedures in museum documentation) and museum information systems (evaluation, system integration, possibilities for reuse of data) will be discussed.
At theoretical level principles of documentation and related data structure and data value standards and characteristics of metadata schemas in museum environment will be introduced to students.
At practical level students will be trained in manual and computer based documentation of museum objects, units of secondary documentation (photographs, digital images, exhibitions...). Information technology will be used extensively during creation and processing of museum documentation. Students will visit Museum documentation centre.

Course objectives:
Adoption of principles of museum documentation at practical level. Understanding of structue of museum documentation informaton untis.

Quality check and success of the course: Quality check and success of the course will be done by combining internal and external evaluation. Internal evaluation will be done by teachers and students using survey method at the end of semester. The external evaluation will be done by colleagues attending the course, by monitoring and assessment of the course.

Reading list:
1. Pravilnik o sadržaju i načinu vođenja muzejske dokumentacije o muzejskoj građi. http://www.hrmud.hr/, 11-01.2005.
2. Bearman, David. Standardi: muzejski metapodaci integrirani s metapodacima drugih distribuiranih informacijskih izvora // Vijesti muzealaca i konzervatora, 1-2(2000), 68-75.
3. Howard Besser / Jennifer Trant. Introduction to imaging : issues in constructing an image database (The Getty Art History Information Program) 1995. 13-18.
4. Hakala, Juha. Dublinski osnovni skup elemenata metapodataka. // Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske 43(2000)1-2, 49-68.

Additional reading list:
1. Zlodi, Goran. CIDOC-ove Međunarodne smjernice za podatke o muzejskom predmetu i Dublin Core : problemi i perspektive. // Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji : mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture / Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2001.
2. Pintarić, Krešimir. Pojmovnik Internetskog nazivlja // Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji: mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture / Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2001. Str. 143-154.