MUSEUMS AS AN ELEMENT OF THE INFORMATION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE HISTORICAL SCIENCE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
E.A. Vorontsova
State Museum of Literature, Russia, 103051, Moscow, Petrovka str., 28
Keywords: историческая наука, информационное обеспечение, информационный ресурс, музей, исторический музей, музееведение, исторический источник, музейный предмет, репрезентация, научные коммуникации, historical science, information support, information resource, museum, historical museums, museology, historical source, museum object, representation, scientific communications
Abstract
The author aims to draw special attention to theoretical and methodological issues, which will help us to understand the museums role in the information support system of the historical science. These issues include analysis of museums as one of the basic elements of information infrastructure of historical science; structuring and systematizing museum funds for the needs of science; collections of literary museums as a source of information for the historian of literature and culture; using information technologies with due regard to the specifics of communications between scientific and museum communities; representation of information potential of museums. Information support is considered in terms of technology and content. Museum and science are viewed as partners involved in the information process in their own way. They help each other to obtain, maintain and present information. Historical science needs information resources of museums, their expositions (as platforms for translating knowledge to the society), especially information resources of historical museums. Museums need historical knowledge as scientific justification for the principles underlying acquisition, systematization and cataloguing of museum holdings; in order to increase information output of museum collections as well as to create displays and exhibitions meting the requirements for representativeness. The author defines the number of issues dealing with the theory and methodology of history and museum science (museology). These issues are key for improvement of information support both for the historical science and museum activities. The author states that historical science and museums have underused the potential for reciprocal usefulness to each other. In the context of information society the information support has become a more significant factor in the development of historical science. The increased role of communication and representation of information makes the museums to facilitate access to the collections for historians using both the traditional and innovative methods.
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