Museums and Virtuality

Abstract This paper investigates issues of museums and virtuality. In considering the diverse ways that museums are approaching virtuality, the focus here is on the common ground and shared objectives, rather than the differences between museums and their virtual re‐creations. Put simply, on‐site museums and their online counterparts are merely two ways of exhibiting cultures. In this sense, “virtuality” is a fundamental exhibition practice. The World Wide Web has become increasingly relevant to such core museum tasks as collecting, preserving, and exhibiting. Digitization of objects in digital heritage programs has led to new forms of collection management and unparalleled access to virtual replicas of museum artifacts. This transformation is inspiring new forms of preserving and displaying cultures both on‐ and off‐line. A successful digital expansion will largely influence whether museums can sustain their cultural authority and position in the 21st century.     

Berufsethische Grundsätze für Sportwissenschaftler/innen in wissenschaftsethischer Sicht

The Code of professional ethics for sports scientists represents a code of behaviour that is based on a philosophical-ethical discussion with a long tradition in the Western hemisphere, even though this has not been expressed explicitly. The intention of this paper is to outline the philosophical background of the Code. This analysis will be done first from a historical perspective of professional ethics. It comprises (1) the Age of Enlightenment with Kant’s notion of truth as a central point, the subsequent differentiation into (2) inherent responsibility of scientific research and (3) Weber’s ethics of responsibility as well as (4) the current supplementation of an institutional besides the individual responsibility. In a second step of analysis the Code will be discussed from a systematic perspective of ethical issues. The main aspects in this context are the bearer, the object and the legitimation of responsibility. The analysis shows that the Code of professional ethics for sports scientists has a broad philosophical foundation.     

OP-ED The 'academic problem'

Hamlet : The time is out of joint; O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come; let's go together (Hamlet, Act I, scene v, lines 189-191).     

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Konzipierung und Realisierung des Breitband-Wissenschaftsnetzes des DFN-Vereins

Zusammenfassung.   Der st?ndig steigende Bedarf der Einrichtungen aus Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung an Bandbreite zur übertragung multimedialer Daten machte den Aufbau eines Breitband-Wissenschaftsnetzes (B-WiN) erforderlich. Der folgende Bericht erl?utert die Methodik der Konzeptionierung und Realisierung des B-WiN. Das Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) unterstützt das Projekt im Zeitraum von 1995 bis 1998 mit erheblichen Zuschüssen. Eingegangen am 23. Mai 1996/Angenommen am 13. Juni 1997