The Transformation of Museum Documentation from the Perspective of Digital Culture

Abstract

Museum documentation marks its beginning in the 1950s with the International Committee for Documentation in Museums (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), since then, standards, guidelines and investigations have been developed in order to provide the museum community with good practices. relating to the organization, representation and processing of information from museum collections. In the 21st century, we reflect on the transformations of museological documentation from the sociocultural aspects of contemporaneity, in this case, the relationship with the digital environment. The general objective is to investigate the processes of museological documentation in digital culture. Methodologically, we analyzed the four practices of digital culture in museum documentation procedures. We identified the need to update documentation instruments in dialogue with digital culture. We consider that the sociocultural aspects linked to digital technologies and the internet, modify the informational needs of the public and, consequently, the way we organize and recover digital collections.