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
MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998

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Tools

Tools Sessions offered an opportunity to learn how to do new things on the Web and use new tools, in mini workshops presented by expert developers and users.

Friday, April 24, 1998

10:30 a.m.-
11:30 a.m.

VRML

A Virtual Interactive Art Gallery
António Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

New User Interfaces for Old Databases

New Web-Based Interfaces to Old Databases
Stephen Toney, Systems Planning & Karen Donoghue, Donoghue/Halliday & Associates, USA

XML and CDF

You Push, I Pull, We Interact: Using XML to Make It Meaningful
Michael Vulpe, Infrastructures for Information Inc., Canada

12:00 p.m.-
1:00 p.m.

Web Server Analysis

Who's been here lately? Tools and Techniques for Server Log Analysis
Dakin Hart, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA

VR Plugins

Visual/Human Interface for Virtual Exhibitions
Gail Rubini, Florida State University & Conrad Gleber

Re-usable Data

Adapting Museum Structures for the Web: No Changes Needed!
Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Mario Ricardo Henriques, Jose Carlos Ramalho, Jose Joao Almeida, Pedro Rangel Henriques & Jose Luis Faria, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

1:30 p.m.-
2:30 p.m.

Simulations and Walkthroughs

Miss Traill's House: A DIY Internet House Museum for Classroom Use
Robin McLachlan, Charles Sturt University, Mitchell, Australia

Database driven VRML and RoboCam

Object Immersion: Database-Driven VRML and Robocam Technology in the Virtual Museum
Angelina Russo, University of South Australia, Australia

Online Exhibit Design

Online Exhibitions: A Philosophy of Design and Technological Implementation
Marc Tinkler & Michael Freedman, Plumb Design, Inc., USA

3:00 p.m.-
4:00 p.m.

Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange Format (SAMI)

Play It Again, SAMI - Finding a Tune Museums Might Learn to Hum
Jim Blackaby, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA

Feedback Tools - I

Virtual Visits to Virtual Museums
Jonathan Bowen, University of Reading, Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science & James Johnson, The Natural History Museum, UK

Intranets

Intranets: Using Web Tools to Facilitate Communication and Develop Integrated Access to Museum Information
Guy Hermann, Mystic Seaport Museum & Sam Quigley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

4:30 p.m.-
5:30 p.m.

Feedback Tools - 2

Using the Web to Change the Relation Between a Museum and Its Users
Roland Jackson, Martin Bazley, Dave Patten (Science Museum, London) and Martin King (Bulbourne Internet Training)

Electronic Volunteers

Electronic Volunteers in a Professional Organization
Andrea Ott, Ontario Museum Association, Canada

The Virtual Docent
James E. Berry, Historic Crossroads Village, USA

Metadata

Cataloging Images for Digital Collections
Jeffrey Sowder, Columbia University, USA



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