Export XML from MuseumPlus

Submitted by Maurice on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:28

In the ethnoArc project, I created a way to export data from MuseumPlus, a proprietary museum documentation system, to xml data. The idea was not to access data in any way illeagally, so that I use clumsy report function. As a result, the export is rather tedious and error prone, but it works. I use a combination of perl, batch, xslt scripts which I explain in this series of postings.

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Bourdieu about Goffman's totalitarian institutions and the new man

If all societies and, significantly, all the ‘totalitarian institutions,’ in Goffman’s phrase, that seek to produce a new man through a process of ‘deculturation’ and ‘reculturation’ set such store on the seemingly most insignificant details of dress, bearing, physical and verbal manners, the reason is that, treating the body as a memory, they entrust to it in abbreviated and practical, i.e.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977:94).

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