MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998

Overview of MW98: Why you should attend MW98 Learn new skills to enhance your museum site Explore issues and controversies facing Museums and the Web Experts featured at MW98 Commercial products and services to enhance your web site Organizations supporting MW98: Online interchange regarding the virtual museum experience Juried awards to best web sites in 5 categories

Archives & Museum Informatics

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published April 1998
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Overview of MW98: Why you should attend MW98 Learn new skills to enhance your museum site Explore issues and controversies facing Museums and the Web Experts featured at MW98 Commercial products and services to enhance your web site Organizations supporting MW98: Online interchange regarding the virtual museum experience Juried awards to best web sites in 5 categories

Karen Donoghue

Principal, Interface Designer, Donoghue/Halliday & Associates, USA

Karen Donoghue is a principal of Donoghue/Halliday & Associates , and specializes in user interface design and information architecture for complex information spaces. She has designed human/computer interfaces for a broad range of clients including AT&T, Reuters, The Getty Information Institute, American Express, Digital Equipment Corporation, Motorola, and Disney.

Karen has focused a portion of her consulting practice on museum and cultural information systems. For the Getty Information Institute, Karen produced and designed the hypermedia version of the Categories for the Description of Works of Art, for the PC and Mac. The Categories is a set of guidelines for the electronic exchange of information about art. In collaboration with Systems Planning, Inc., she recently designed a browser-based interface to the Census of Antique Art & Architecture Known to the Renaissance, a highly complex data space consisting of over a hundred thousand objects, which include images, document records, and supporting written commentary and research.

Donoghue/Halliday & Associates has designed Web sites for large-scale cultural information systems, including CIMI, the Consortium for the Computer Interchange and Cultural Heritage Information Online (CHIO).

Karen studied design at Harvard University while earning an MS from the MIT Media Laboratory in 1993. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Tufts University in 1987.

Karen is a co-author of New Web-Based Interfaces to Old Databases.


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