Faith in cyberspace : an interview with Danielle Boily / by Alice Wang.: CH57-4/71-2023E-PDF

"Before virtual exhibitions and online collections were commonplace among cultural institutions, the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) had been helping Canadian museums and other heritage organizations build documentation capacities for their inventories since its inception in 1972. The advent of the Internet in the 1990s presented CHIN with a unique opportunity to evolve from a national repository of museum documentation to a promoter of Canadian cultural objects in cyberspace. In experimenting with the potential of the Internet, CHIN partnered with museums in Canada and France to create a virtual exhibition called "Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada" in December 1995. Danielle Boily was the CHIN director of this international collaboration. In celebration of the Canadian Conservation Institute and CHIN's 50th anniversary, I spoke with Danielle about what it was like to work on CHIN's first virtual exhibition, and the faith in cyberspace it required"--Page [1].

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