- Cary Karp
Cary Karp, a
museum curator based inSweden , has been instrumental in developing online facilities for museums in the context of theInternational Council of Museums (ICOM). In particular, he was central in promoting and establishing the ".museum "top-level domain as President of the internationalMuseum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) [http://www.icann.org/correspondence/karp-to-cerf-24feb03.htm] . He has also been a principal contributor to establishment of standards for registration ofinternationalized domain names [http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-22feb06.htm] .Background
Karp has a PhD in
musicology and is Associate Professor ofOrganology at theUniversity of Upsala in Sweden. He has been professionally involved withmuseum s since the late 1960s. He was curator of the musical instrument collections at the Music Museum inStockholm from 1973 to 1990, especially concerned with conservation, and rose to be the museum's Deputy Director during the 1980s. He has been at theSwedish Museum of Natural History since 1990, first as Director of the Department of Information Technology, and currently as Director of Internet Strategy and Technology.Contribution to museums and IT
Cary Karp has been the Director of
Internet Strategy for ICOM. Within the context of IT development for museums internationally, he has been:* President of the Museum Domain Management Association (
MuseDoma ) [http://musedoma.museum/corporate_min29sep00.html] ,
* Chair of the ICOM Advisory Committee Internet Working Group,
*CIMI Project Manager,
* a member of the Board of ICOM's International Documentation Committee (CIDOC ) and Chair of the CIDOC Internet Working Group,
* an at-large member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) [http://forum.icann.org/bios/carykarp.html] ,
* a member of the editorial board of the international journal "Archives and Museum Informatics ".References
* [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/bios/au_1300.html Biography] , "
Museums and the Web " conference, 2001.
* " [http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-22feb06.htm Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names, Version 2.1] " published by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 22 February 2006.
* " [http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi-00.txt An IDNA problem in right-to-left scripts] " by H. Alvestrand and C. Karp,IETF , 13 October 2006.
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