Museums and the Web 2004, Selected Papers from an international conference
Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant.
Pittsburgh: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2004.
Contents
Introduction
Museums and the Web: Maturation, Consolidation
and Evaluation
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, p. 3
Desperately Seeking
Searching For Meaning: Not Just Records
Darren Peacock, National Museum of Australia; Derek Ellis,
Massive Interactive; and John Doolan, KE Software, Australia, p. 11
Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web:
The User’s Perspective on MuseumFinland
Eero Hyvönen, Miikka Junnila, Suvi Kettula, Eetu Mäkelä,
Samppa Saarela, Mirva Salminen, Ahti Syreeni, Arttu Valo and Kim Viljanen, Helsinki
Institute for Information Technology (HIIT),University of Helsinki, Finland,
p. 21
The Gernsback Machine: Towards a Museum of
Possible Futures and Probable Pasts
Valerie J. Hobbs and Diarmuid J. Pigott, Murdoch University;
Marjolein Towler, Consultas Pty Ltd, Australia, p. 33
Interactive Audio Content: An Approach to Audio Content
for a Dynamic Museum Experience through Augmented
Audio Reality and Adaptive Information Retrieval
Ron Wakkary, Kenneth Newby, Marek Hatala, Dale Evernden and
Milena Droumeva, Simon Fraser University, Canada, p. 51
Just Like Me
Personalization and the Web from a Museum Perspective
Jonathan P. Bowen, London South Bank University, United Kingdom and Silvia
Filippini-Fantoni, Université Paris I - Sorbonne, France, p. 63
The King’s Kunstkammer: Presenting Systems of
Knowledge on the Web
Bente Gundestrup and Tine Wanning, The National Museum
of Denmark, Denmark, p. 79
Enhancing Accessibility for Visually Impaired Users:
The Munch Exhibition
Nicoletta Di Blas and Paolo Paolini, HOC-DEI, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy; Marco Speroni, University of Lugano, Switzerland and Angelo
Capodieci, MEDÌ, Italy, p. 89
Multimedia Tour Programme at Tate Modern
Gillian Wilson, Tate Modern, United Kingdom, p. 99
Infrastructures for Educators
A Scalable, Modular Framework for Publishing Museum
Educational Materials
Steve Gano, Ro Kinzler, Drew Koning, Monica Philippo, Matthew
Tarr, National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology,
American Museum of Natural History, USA, p. 113
Digital Storytelling at the National Gallery of Art
Julie Springer, National Gallery of Art; Sara Kajder, University
of Virginia; Julia Borst Brazas, Chicago WebDocent Project, USA, p. 123
Northern Journeys: Design Infrastructure
Roger M. Topp and Terry P. Dickey, University of Alaska Museum, USA 131
Experiencing It
Beyond On-line Collections: Putting Objects to Work
Brad Johnson, Second Story Interactive Studios, USA, p.
147
Digitizing African Oral Narratives In A Global Arena
Renate Meyer, Centre for Popular Memory, UCT, South Africa,
p. 157
Edutainment Environments. A Field Report on DinoHunter:
Technologies, Methods and Evaluation results
Sebastian Sauer, Kerstin Osswald, ion2s – buero fuer interaktion;
Stefan Göbel, Axel Feix, Rene Zumack and Anja Hoffmann, ZGDV
Darmstadt e.V., Dep. Digital Storytelling, Germany, p. 165
Bringing Mars Home: the MarsQuest Online Project
James B. Harold and Paul B. Dusenbery, Space Science Institute,
USA, p. 173
From Virtually Impossible to the Virtual: Building a
Dream Exhibition
Kirk Alexander, University of California at Davis; and
Janet Temos, Princeton University, USA, p. 183
Are We There Yet?
To Flash or Not To Flash? Usability and User Engagement
of HTML vs. Flash
David T. Schaller and Steven Allison-Bunnell, Educational
Web Adventures; Anthony Chow, Paul Marty, and Misook Heo, Florida State University,
USA, p. 197
Evaluating Context-Aware Mobile Applications in Museums: Experiences from
the MUSE Project
Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Giuseppe Raffa, and Luca Roffia, Università di
Bologna; Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano; Rossana Muzii, Viviana Varlese,
Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Napoletano; Maurizio Malavasi
and Stefania Galasso, Ducati Sistemi S.p.A., Italy, p. 209
Exploring Motivational Factors and Visitor Satisfaction in
On-line Museum Visits
Kate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation;
and David Schaller, Educational Web Adventures, USA, p. 223
About the Authors
Author Biographies p. 247
Index
Index to Authors, Keywords and Institutions, p.
249
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