Cultural informatics

People who study cultural informatics look at the ways in which cultural institutions (i.e., libraries, archives, museums, etc.) create, organize, and record descriptions of the resources (i.e., books, artworks, images, etc.) that they collect. The general idea is that the more effectively cultural information is organized, the more easily people can discover and access the resources that they’re interested in—and the more easily they can learn about those resources, learn about the cultural contexts in which those resources are produced, and learn about their own (and other people’s) attitudes and values.