Museum Informatics - Science topic

Maybe I should start my own museum for all my unique ideas. I could be the curator and professor.

After my initial Q&A topic of “what is the future of our Cultural Heritage” of some months ago it is almost a follow-up by asking the next logical question “Would transparency in museum matters stop the illicit trade in Cultural Heritage remains?”

The notion of illicit trade encompasses the purchasing as well as the sale of cultural heritage relics and remains.

People like to hoard things they like and pay for it, whereas there are others who sell whatever they have received in the past by a gift or a purchase. So, CH objects remain in good hands.

However, when it involves public as well as private museums, there are at this moment no ways to get access to what they got, was loaned to them or was purchased from where and when in the past.

What we need is transparency by having a look into the inventory list of every museum in the world. The reason is that there are less exhibited objects above ground than there are in the museum vaults, which no mortal will ever see, discuss and admire. Things have disappeared from the face of the world, but many of them still exist somewhere, but we have no way of knowing where.

The question of transparency is not just a question, because I would like to provide an answer of another type of social behavior that bore fruit until the very present. I have in mind an organization as Interpol that has stored fingerprints of millions around the globe and active collaboration between police forces everywhere can tap into Interpol’s huge database. Criminals can be traced as a result of Interpol’s work.

I suggest that in the footsteps of Interpol an organization will be founded on international level, which will have a data base of ALL museum inventories—large and small--from everywhere, so that we first of all will get a glimpse of what every museum has and secondly, illicit trade in CH goods around the world can be checked if they were stolen from a museum and ended up elsewhere, as well as the new acquisitions of goods in all the countries that will and eventually must be connected with this database.

In a second stage, also antiquarians will be included with their entire inventory so that one would receive a window into legal/illegal transactions from the past and the present.

Of course, as there are sets of fingerprints in Interpol files which are missing in its database, likewise there will always remain CH goods that clandestine will be moved from post to hole. Nevertheless, the newly made database would be a start to keep an eye on the lucrative sales of stolen goods.

Perhaps, even Interpol itself would be highly interested to let share a subdivision of its database so that it—with its super speedy search machines- would get immediate answers on wheel and deal in the antiquity- and Art world.

I've performed a long time interview with a project manager from a technology park. and now I wanna to change the sound record into text, so that I could show the professor more clearly and directly. but it took really a tons of time if I was to tap it into word while listening. and I spent two hours only for 10 mins of the record. then, I wonder whether there are any good method to ease the process?

Holography is very important for Museology.