Consulting Services
Archives & Museum Informatics consults for archives, museums, libraries and cultural heritage networks on issues relating to the acquisition, structuring and use of information and information technology to achieve organizational objectives. We also consult for business and governments on issues relating to organizational accountability and the management of electronic evidence.
We specialize in strategic information planning, knowledge organization and information standards, information systems acquisition, integration of information from diverse collections and sources, multi-institutional projects and databases with diverse user communities, and research into user requirements and experience.
Sample Projects
Our Client List shows the diversity of organizations we work with in Cultural Heritage Informatics. Highlights include:
- planning and evaluation of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative
- working with private philanthropy interested in funding digital museums
- directing research in a multi-museum project: steve: exploring folksonomy in the museum
- conducting our own research: Museum Web Benchmarking: Survey Report released
- supporting AEA Consulting's development of a Digital Strategy for a national museum.
- drafting Image Retrieval Benchmark Database Service: A Needs Assessment and Preliminary Development Plan prepared for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04.html).
- providing management services for the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) from 1997 - 2002.
Our Policy on Software Endorsement
A&MI believes that organizations should have impartial advice and therefore does not favor any particular software or hardware. Nor do we accept contracts to implement systems in which we have had a design/specification/planning role.