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Museum informatics is an emerging field of academic study focused on the intersection between information technologies, museums and their staffs, and online museum data and services.

The earliest references to museum informatics in English are from Archives and Museum Informatics a newsletter and journal published on the subject from 1987-1996. In the early 1990’s, museum informatics projects and services developed at numerous American universities. Graduate courses devoted to the topic were offered from at least 2001. PhD theses were titled museum informatics by 2004. By 2007, an academic reader, Museum Informatics: People, Information, and Technology in Museum, by Paul F Marty and Katherine Burton Jones, was published as part of the Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science.

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