Museums and the Online Archive of California

Abstract

The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. "Museums and the Online Archive of California " (MOAC) is a series of projects enabling museums to participate in the OAC. This paper describes MOAC from an operational as well as theoretical point of view, forming a case study in large-scale integration of access to museum and archival materials.