Since the mid-1990s, more and more museums have decided to put their collections online. Understanding digital culture, which is key to a successful 21st-century museum, plays an important role in this. In the diploma seminar, we focused mainly on the museums' online collections on the example of The Slovene Ethnographic Museum. The aim of the diploma seminar is to present the key processes that are important for the preparation and presentation of online collections and to present the digitization of museum collections and standards, related to the procedures for working with material and inventory of museum material. In the research part of the diploma seminar, two methods of data collection were used, namely the interview and the analysis of museum collections. The interview was conducted with Gregor Ilaš, who plays a key role in setting up the SEM online collections. In the second part, we analysed the SEM online collection and, for comparison, analysed the functionality of two more online museum collections (the online collection of the National Museum of Slovenia and the online collection of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA). Through research, it has been found that the process of setting up online collections is not easy, as it requires a lot of time and knowledge. Despite everything, SEM online collection has been set at a user-friendly level, as it contains organized navigation and a comprehensive description of each object in the collection, all of which was evident also from the analysis of the other two museum collections.
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