Museums face challenges in the 21st century as most still operate as they did in the 1800s. New challenges include the need for community collaboration, leadership, and a standardized information exchange format. While frameworks exist, like the Museum Computer Network in the US and Archives for the 21st Century in the UK, developing a single unified framework is difficult due to cultural differences. The Getty framework has attempted this through standardized vocabularies and categories, and could serve as a starting point for a global information exchange standard to help museums communicate in the future.

1. EM 820 Business Strategies for Social Media April 23, 2010 Paul D Challenges facing Museums/Education today and in the future

2. Can Museums Capture the Future? The twenty first century offer unique Challenges for museums, when most museums still remain its core in the 1800s. Where vast collections and exhibits have been the standard presentations. (Krishtalka & Humphrey, 2000) New challenges for the twenty first century include the need for the collaborative power of the community in education, public programs, and management, Leadership , and a standard information format exchange.

3. Can Museums Capture the Future? “Information about objects in museums are as important as the objects themselves” (Marty, 2003). Setting Standards and metadata Questions must be answered in order to standardize information to share Informational resources. Standardizing information as to each artifact, such as what data should be gathered, what format should the data be saved in, what vocabulary should be used, and how the information will be indexed. (Marty, 2003). Introducing a national standard for museums must become paramount.

4. Can Museums Capture the Future? USA Standard Framework Museum Computer Network (MCN), formed in 1967 has set standards for the exchange in information for museums from the early days of the mainframe to today using the Internet. Not all museums utilize the MCN Standards, especially foreign museums. (MCN, 2010).

5. Can Museums Capture the Future? UK Standard Framework The National Archives and the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA) Archives for the 21st Century Recognizing there is no one standard a call for action for a action to standize digital documents through parent organizations and universities.

6. Can Museums Capture the Future? Unified Standard Framework With many standard frameworks utilized through out the world the difficulty remains for one framework to become the single standard. An In-depth examination as to why not, leads us to the conclusion that cultural Heritage places a major role. Different classifications for artifacts remain a Major obstacle to overcome. Is there hope of one single framework?

7. Can Museums Capture the Future? Getty Standard Framework Getty has attempted to create one single framework. Getty’s framework has developed A standard database of vocabularies and thesaurus. In addition Getty has spend over 10 years Creating the categories for Art of works (Getty,2010). Learn about the Getty Vocabularies.

8. Can Museums Capture the Future? Getty Standard Framework Getty has attempted to create one single framework. Getty’s framework has developed A standard database of vocabularies and thesaurus. In addition Getty has spend over 10 years Creating the categories for Art of works. Learn about the Getty Vocabularies.

9. Can Museums Capture the Future? Museums in the twenty first Century will need to communicate among themselves with a united framework, one that is culturally compatible, and within an informatics community. A movement into an equal beneficial information exchange. Getty, has developed a framework that offers museums a pathway into the twenty first Century and should be looked upon as a starting point for a standard information exchange.

10. Can Museums Capture the Future? Additional information The Getty Information Institute The Getty Vocabulary program

11. References Getty, (2010). Lean about the getty vocabularies. Retrieved from http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ HM Government,, (Producer). (2010). Archives for the 21st century . [Web]. Retrieved from http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/aft21c/archives-for-the-21st-century.pdf Krishtalka and Humphrey, (2000) Can natural history museums capture the future? Bioscience (50)No 7 611-617 Marty, P. (2003). Museum informatics. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=D-srgGEnqEcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1906&dq=challenges+for+museums&ots=azdOltWfM6&sig=AinN7BvVcUDA-vwsf4Mt_0qNYqc#v=onepage&q=challenges%20for%20museums&f=false MCN, (2010). Museum computer network. Retrieved from http://www.mcn.edu/about/index.asp