Cary Karp ( born 3 April 1947), a retired

museum curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

based in

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, has been instrumental in developing online facilities for museums in the context of the

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(ICOM). In particular, he was central in promoting and establishing the ''

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as President of the international

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(MuseDoma). He has also been a principal contributor to establishment of standards for registration of

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Background

Karp has a PhD in

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and is Associate Professor of

Organology Organology (from Ancient Greek () 'instrument' and (), 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how i ...

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in Sweden. He has been professionally involved with

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s since the late 1960s. He was curator of the musical instrument collections at the Music Museum in

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from 1973 to 1990, especially concerned with conservation, and rose to be the museum's Deputy Director during the 1980s. He was at the

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1990 until his retirement in 2014, first as Director of the Department of Information Technology and then as Director of Internet Strategy and Technology.

Contribution to museums and IT

Cary Karp has been the Director of

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Strategy for ICOM. Within the context of IT development for museums internationally, he has been: * President of the Museum Domain Management Association ( MuseDoma), * Chair of the ICOM Advisory Committee Internet Working Group, *

Computer Interchange of Museum Information The Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) was an initiative for museum IT standards under the auspices of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The CIMI project was started in 1990 by the US-based Museum Comput ...

(CIMI) Project Manager, * a member of the Board of ICOM's International Documentation Committee (

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) and Chair of the CIDOC Internet Working Group, * an at-large member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (

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),Information for Cary Karp
* a member of the editorial board of the international journal '' Archives and Museum Informatics''.

References

External links

Biography
''

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'' conference, 2001. *
Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names, Version 2.1
' published by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 22 February 2006. *
An IDNA problem in right-to-left scripts
' by H. Alvestrand and C. Karp,

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, 13 October 2006. Living people Swedish curators Swedish musicologists Organologists People in information technology International Council of Museums 1947 births {{Sweden-bio-stub