MW2003 featured a variety of sessions exploring all aspects of the creation, development, maintenance and evaluation of Web sites in museums, cultural and heritage organizations.

Sessions are listed chronologically below, or you can see an overview of the program.

Thursday March 20, 2003
9:30 AM- 10:30 AM Plenary	Opening Plenary
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Reaching Out	Audience What Clicks? An Interim Report on Audience Research Jim Ockuly, USA Re-assessing practice; visual art, visually impaired people and the web Caro Howell, Dan Porter, United Kingdom Are We Serving Our Targeted Audiences? Changing Audiences and Changing Technologies Holly Witchey, USA
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Presentation	Design Issues A Whale of a Web-site Anne Karin Hufthammer, Joan Nordbotten, Norway Addressing Multiple Audiences with Multiple Interfaces to a single Database: The AMICO Experience Scott Sayre, Kris Wetterlund, USA Make Your Museum Talk: Natural Language Interfaces for Cultural Institutions Stefania Boiano, Morgana Caldarini, Giuliano Gaia, Italy
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Weaving the Web	Knowledge Models The next generation - 'knowledge environments' and digital collections Fiona Cameron, Australia Applied Architecture Jim Blackaby, USA Designing multi-channel web frameworks for cultural tourism applications: the MUSE case study Franca Garzotto, Massimiliano Pigozzi, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Italy
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Education	Not Just Virtual Using the Web for Participation and Interactivity Gail Durbin, United Kingdom New Vision, New Reality: Methodology and Mission in Developing Interactive Videoconference Programming Patricia Barbanell, John Falco, Dianna Newman, USA Building a festival web site: An Uncommon Collaboration Kimberly Freeman, John Gordy, USA
1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Reaching Out	Handheld Using Cinematic Techniques in a Multimedia Museum Guide Ivana Alfaro, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro, Italy The State of the Art in Museum Handhelds in 2003 Nancy Proctor, United Kingdom Chris Tellis, USA Multimuseum: a multichannel communication project for the National Museum of Cinema of Turin Elena Cigliano, Sara Monaci, Italy Focus your young visitors: -Kids Innovation- Fundamental changes in digital edutainment Stefan Goebel, Sebastian Sauer, Germany
1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Education	School Art Museum Web Sites: From Information Medium to Learning Medium Marie Desmarteau, Canada Developing Teachers' Resources at the Museum of Tolerance: A Case Study in Innovation and Evolution Linda Blanshay, Sarah Bordac, Carolyn Brucken, Liebe Geft, Elana Samuels, USA White Gloves and the Web: Collections in the Classroom Karen Elinich, USA SHADE Smithsonian-Hunterian Advanced Digital Experiments James Devine, Scotland Carl C. Hansen, USA
1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Weaving the Web	Tools Integrating Real Time Communications Applications in a Museum's Website Greg Jacobson, Lawrence Swiader, USA The Use of an Information Brokering Tool in an Electronic Museum Environment Andreas Lorenz, Marcus Specht, Andreas Zimmermann, Germany From Content Expert to Stakeholder and Maybe Even Creator Willy Lee, USA Integrating Databases with Maps: the Delivery of Cultural Data through TimeMap Ian Johnson, Australia
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Reaching Out	Collaboration A cooperative experience: the Bo¯ valley gateway Cesar Carreras, Spain Five Become One: how five Manchester museums developed a shared web portal Pauline Webb, United Kingdom mnartists.orgĖs 10 Tips for Building Online Communities Robin Dowden, USA
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Education	Learning Evaluating the Authenticity of Egyptian Cartonnage Fragments: Educational Outreach in Search of the Truth Ann Lacy, Paul Marty, Kim Sheahan, USA Practicing What We Teach: How Learning Theory Can Guide Development of Online Educational Activities Steven Allison-Bunnell, David Schaller, USA Having fun or finding information? Usability for kids' sections on museum websites. Celine Arseneault, Canada
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Weaving the Web	Practice Makes Perfect Getting Your Collections Online - Practical Lessons from Successful Projects Alex Morrison, Ben Rubenstein, United Kingdom Disintermediation and the Museum Web Experience: Database or Documentary?Which Way Should We Go? Brad Johnson, USA Think Different: Combining Online Exhibitions And Offline Components To Gain New Understandings Of Museum Permanent Collections Michael Freedman, USA
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Presentation	World Culture Village Voice: An information architecture for community-centered exhibits Ramesh Srinivasan, USA Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management Jane Hunter, Bevan Koopman, Australia Jane Sledge, USA Dublin Core: The Base For An Indigenous Culture Environment? Sophie Lissonnet, Liddy Nevile, Australia

Friday March 21, 2003
all day	There are Interactions scheduled throughout the day.
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM Evaluation	Best of the Web Awards

Saturday March 22, 2003
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Reaching Out	"Just" an Exhibition From On-site to On-line: Experience on Transforming Exhibition Wendy Wong, Canada Explaining One of Mexico's Most Vital Musical Traditions : The Corridos sin Fronteras Traveling Exhibition and Educational Web Site Evelyn Figueroa, Tim Songer, USA An Affordable System for a Thematic Exhibition by using the Internet/Intranet Chun Wai Cheung, Kwok Wai Ng, Chi Kin Wong, China Loong Wing Tang, Hong Kong
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Presentation	3D A Prototype Digital Library For 3D Collections: Tools To Capture, Model, Analyze, And Query Complex 3D Data Anshuman Razdan, Jeremy Rowe, USA The Digital Hammurabi Project Dean Snyder, Lee Watkins, USA The SEE Experience: Edutainment in 3D Virtual Worlds Susan Hazan, Israel Nicoletta Di Blas, Paolo Paolini, Italy
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Weaving the Web	Managing Content Data In, Data Out: Content Management for the Web Christine Sonnabend Vitto, USA Web Preservation Projects at Library of Congress Gina Jones, Abigail Grotke, USA Bringing It All Together: Developing a User-Centered Search Experience on the SFMOMA Web Site Marla Misunas, Dana Mitroff, Susie Wise, USA
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Reaching Out	Evaluation A Rolling Evaluation Gathers No Moss Lorrie Beaumont, Lee Anne Burrough, Ethalinda Cannon, David Schaller, USA Investigating Heuristic Evaluation: A Case Study Laura Bendoly, Kate Haley Goldman, USA Accessing Museums Through the Web: A Model for Evaluating the Impact of Museum and School Partnerships Patricia Barbanell, John Falco, Dianna Newman, USA
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Presentation	Virtual Companions Interactive Character as a Virtual Tour Guide to an Online Museum Exhibition Pilar Almeida, Shigeki Yokoi, Japan Designing Collaborative Group Experience for Museums with Telebuddy Stefan Goebel, Anja Hoffmann, Germany Experiencing Art on the Web with Virtual Companions Ido Iurgel, Germany
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Plenary	Closing Plenary: Interfaces, New Views The More You Look the More You Get: Intention-based Interface using Gaze-tracking Slavko Milekic, USA From GUI to Gallery: a Study of Online Virtual Environments Steve Guynup, USA Interfacing the Digital Steve Dietz, USA