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Books and reports 
> New book: Museums and silent objects: designing effective exhibitions. Ashgate, 2013. Buy from publisher (cheaper than Amazon!)
Research report: Collections for people: museums' stored collections as a public resource. UCL Institute of Archaeology, 2008. Free download
Fragments of the World: uses of museum collections. Elsevier - Butterworth Heinemann, 2005.
Managing Conservation in Museums (2nd revised edn.). Butterworth Heinemann, 2002.
Digital Collections: Museums in the Information Age. Butterworth Heinemann, 1998.
Articles and papers
Surprise - someone else's article consisted largely of one of my articles, verbatim, in the proceedings of a well known annual conference series. All in the spirit of the internet, of course. I would be grateful for a proper reference to my paper if you cite one. Please identify any direct quotations as such.
Landscape and planning
2013. What's in a view. Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) South Wiltshire Group Newsletter, Spring 2013, pp 6-7.
Museums + collections
2008. Using stored collections in independent museums. AIM Bulletin, December 2008, pp 8-9.
2006. All that is solid? Museums and the post-modern. Public Archaeology 5: 3, pp. 185-98.
2006. Disruptive technologies: are museums immune? in: J.Hemsley & S. Keene, eds. EVA London 2006: Proceedings of the conference held 26th-28th July 2006. EVA Conferences International, pp. 14.1-14.10.
2005. Museums and the interpretation of visual culture (review). Material Religion 1: 2, pp. 281-2.
2005. Out of the darkness. Museums Journal (August). pp 26-29.
2005. Managing collections in store. In: Magasinbygningens fysk og funktion. Museumshojskolen, Soro, Danmark. 18-22 october 2004. Postprint. Nordisk Konservator Forbund, Danmark. 4 pp.
2005. Collections: treasure or trash? In: Politics and positioning. Museums Australia Conference, Sydney. Museums Australia.
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Digitisation + culture
Presentations
Digital preservation: Now you see it, now you won't (pdf)
Articles and papers
2006. Disruptive technologies: are museums immune? in: J.Hemsley & S. Keene, eds. EVA London 2006: Proceedings of the conference held 26th-28th July 2006. EVA Conferences International, pp. 14.1-14.10.
2006. (ed., with J. Hemsley.) EVA London 2006: Proceedings of the conference held 26th-28th July 2006. EVA Conferences Internationa. Buy volume
2004. City histories revealed. Literary and Linguistics Computing 19: 351-371.
http://llc.oupjournals.org/content/vol19/issue3/
2004. The future of the museum in the digital age. ICOM News 57: 3, p.4. 1p.
2003. A DEER for Europe? a Distributed European Electronic Resource. in: EVA London 2003: proceedings. Vasari: London. 10 pp.
2002. Preserving digital materials: confronting tomorrow's problems today: preserving digital cultural material. The Conservator, no. 26, pp. 93-99.
2002. Now you see it, now you
won't. Website demonstration
in: Museums and the Web. Selected papers from an international conference. Pittsburg, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/abstracts/prg_170000679.html
2002. Surviving the sands of time. In: Digital Silk Roads. Conference held by the NII and UNESCO, Tokyo, 2001. NII/UNESCO.
2001. In Your Dreams: digital media bring to life real collections. In: Scanning the Horizon. proceedings of the mda conference, Norwich, 2001.
2001. Introducing the Netful In: Delivering Diversity: Promoting Participation. Proceedings of the 1999 conference. In Delivering diversity, Proceedings of the mda conference, London, September 1999 (Published as mda Information Vol 5 No3).
2000. Museums in the Digital Space. Cultivate Interactive,
issue 2.
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/space>
2000. Collections information and the outside context. Unpublished paper.
1999. A netful of jewels: new museums in the learning age (ed.). London: National Museums Directors Conference. Buy volume
1998. Public awareness, audiences and markets: survey of information currently available. In: Report on the Work of the Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage, Working Group 2. EC DG X and DG XIII, Brussels.
1998. Editor, Exploring Materials CD ROM. Science Museum.
1997. Director and editor, The Information Stations. Multimedia interactive exhibit in the Science Museum gallery, The Challenge of Materials.
1997. Museums and the Information Society, in Proceedings of the conference: Building the Global Information Society for the 21st Century, Brussels, 1-3 October 1997. Theme 2: Services to the Public. European Commission.
1997. The World Wide Market for museum information, in J.Hemsley (ed.), Proceedings of a conference, Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: Eva'97 Paris, 2 Sept.1997, pp. 13-1 - 13-11. EVA conferences. Buy volume
1997. Becoming Digital, Museum Management and Curatorship 15 No.3, 299-313.
1996. LASSI: the Larger Scale Systems Initiative, Information Services & Use 16, 223-236.
1996. News from the cutting edge, Museums Journal (November), p 42.
1996. Worldwide Access, Museums Journal (September), p 37
1996. Ghostly Spirits, Museums Journal (May), p 42
1996. With A. Grant and J. Warren. Multitalented. Museums Journal (August), 26-27.
1995. LASSI: the collections management software for the future. In: G. Day, ed. Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway: Proceedings of the Conference held on 10 May 1995. Science Museum. Buy volume
1994. Objects as systems: a new challenge for conservation. In: W.A. Oddy, ed. Restoration: is it acceptable? Preprints of a conference. Occasional Paper no. 99, British Museum, pp 19-25. Buy volume
1994. Keene, S. Conserving the information machine. In: S.Keene and D.Swade, eds. Collecting and Conserving Computers: Seminar Papers. Science Museum, London, pp 30-39. Buy volume
1990. Building a management information system for conservation. In: K. Grimstad, ed. Proceedings of the 9th triennial meeting of the Committee for Conservation, Dresden. ICOM Committee for Conservation / Getty Conservation Institute, pp 185-191.
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Collections conservation
Book: 1996. Managing Conservation in Museums (1st edn.) Butterworth Heinemann in association with the Science Museum.
Seminar papers: 1994 (ed., with D.Swade). Collecting and Conserving Computers: papers from a seminar. Science Museum. Buy volume
Conference preprints: 1990 (ed.). Managing conservation: Conference Preprints. UKIC. Buy volume
Research report: 1989. (ed., with M. Corfield and S. Hackney). The Survey: conservation facilities in museums and galleries. United Kingdom Institute for Conservation. 88 pp. Buy volume
Seminar papers: 1985. Corrosion inhibitors in conservation. Occasional Papers No. 4. UKIC. Buy volume
Research report: 1974. (Major contributor and editor) Conservation in museums and galleries: A survey of facilities in the United Kingdom. International Institute of Conservation. 115 pp. Buy volume
Seminar papers: 1979. Conservation, archaeology and museums. Occasional Paper No. 1. UKIC. Buy volume
Presentations
Digital preservation: Now you see it, now you won't
Articles and papers
2000. Instruments of history: Appearance and Evidence. In: Papers from a workshop, The Restoration of Scientific Instruments, Florence. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, pp 57-68. Buy volume
1995. Conservation Techniques: Museum Collections. In: R. Harrison, ed. Manual of Heritage Management. Butterworth Heinemann. pp 205-16. Buy volume
1994. Objects as systems: a new challenge for conservation. In: W.A. Oddy, ed. Restoration: is it acceptable? Preprints of a conference. Occasional Paper no. 99, British Museum, pp 19-25. Buy volume
1994. Real-time survival rates for treatments of archaeological iron. In: J. Podany, ed. Ancient and Historic Metals: conservation and scientific research. Proceedings of a symposium organised by the J.Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute, Santa Monica, 1991. Getty Conservation Institute, pp 249-64. Buy volume
1994. Keene, S. Conserving the information machine. In: S.Keene and D.Swade, eds. Collecting and Conserving Computers: Seminar Papers. Science Museum, London, pp 30-39. Buy volume
1993. From junk yard to Aladdin’s cave. Museums Journal (July), 23-26.
1992. With C.Orton. Measuring the condition of museum collections. In: G.L. and J. Moffett, eds. CAA91: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. BAR.
1992. A method for auditing the condition of collections. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Non-destructive Testing, Viterbo. Istituto Centrale del Restauro / Italian Society for NDT, Monitoring and Diagnostics (AIPnD), Rome. pp not numbered.
1991. Audits of care: a framework for collections condition surveys. In: V. Todd, ed. Storage: Conference Preprints. RAI / UKIC, pp 6-16. Buy volume
1990. Building a management information system for conservation. In: K. Grimstad, ed. Proceedings of the 9th triennial meeting of the Committee for Conservation, Dresden. ICOM Committee for Conservation / Getty Conservation Institute, pp 185-191.
1990. With May Cassar. Using standards. In: S. Keene, ed. Managing conservation: Conference Preprints. UKIC, pp 11-15. Buy volume
1988. Know your enemies: parts 1-4. Traditional Homes, April - July.
1987. The Winchester Reliquary: conservation and elucidation. In: J. Black, ed. Recent Advances in Conservation and Analysis of Artefacts: Conference Preprints. Institute of Archaeology, London, pp 35-32. Buy volume
1987. Desalination treatments for iron: an evaluation. In: Jern - fremstilling, ned brydning og bavaring. National Museum of Denmark.
1987. Protective coatings for iron. In: Jern - fremstilling, ned brydning og bavaring. National Museum of Denmark.
1987. Adhesives and consolidants used in conservation. Geological Curator, 4.
1985. With Clive Orton. The stability of treated archaeological iron: an assessment. Studies in Conservation, 30, 3.
1984. The performance of coatings and consolidants used for archaeological iron. In: Adhesives and Consolidants: Contributions to the Paris Congress 1984. IIC.
1982. With H.Ganiaris and K.Starling. A comparison of some treatments for excavated leather. The Conservator, 6, 12-23.
1981. Waterlogged wood from the City of London. In: D. Grattan, ed. Proceedings of the Waterlogged Wood Working Group Conference, Ottawa. Preprints. ICOM CC Waterlogged Working Group, pp. 177-180.
1981. With D. Hinton and K.Qualmann. The Winchester Reliquary. Medieval Archaeology, XXV, pp 45-77.
1981. With A. Agyrakis. A Guide to Environmental Control for Archaeological Storage in Museums. AMSSEE.
1980. Documentation and information. In: S.Keene, ed. Conservation, archaeology and museums. Occasional Paper no.1, UKIC, p 9. Buy volume
1977. An approach to the sampling and storage of waterlogged wood from excavations. The Conservator, 1, pp 8-11.
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