Museums
and the Web, 1997: Selected Papers
Pittsburgh: Archives & Museum Informatics, 1997
Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant.
Table of Contents
Preface, Museums and the Web: a conference, a community, and a challenge
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics, USA
I. Culture on the Web: Policy and Economics
Sharing Cultural Entitlements in the Digital Age: Are we Building a Garden of Eden or a Patch of Weeds?
Eleanor E. Fink, Director, Getty Information Institute, USA
The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp): Whence and Whither?
Jonathan Bowen, The University of Reading, Department of Computer Science, Reading, Berks,UK
Income Producing Activity and the Web
Jeremy Rees, Director, International Visual Arts Information Network, UK
Pricing and Licensing for Museum Digital Content
Janice Sorkow, Director of Rights and Licensing, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA
Developing A National Strategy for Multimedia Cultural Heritage
Jean-Louis Pascon, Ministère de la Culture/Direction de lėadministration générale, France
II. The Future of Museums and Collections
The Web and the Unassailable Voice
Peter Walsh, Director of Information and Institutional Relations, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, USA
Building a Virtual Museum Community
Jamieson McKenzie, Director of Libraries, Media and Technology, Bellingham, Washington, Public Schools; Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal, USA
Bridging the Gap between Research and Education: The Future of Network Technology in the Sciences and Science Museums
Robert P. Guralnick, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, USA
Thinking Critically About Virtual Museums
Dr. Suzette Worden, Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK
Situated Knowledge and the Virtual Science and Industry Museum: Problems in the social-technical interface
Terry Hemmings, Dave Randall, Dave Francis, and Liz Marr, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.; Colin Divall, the National Railway Museum, York and The University of York, U.K.; and Gaby Porter, The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, U.K.
The Best of Intentions: Public Access, the Web & the Evolution of Museum Automation
Kevin Donovan, New Media Applications, Intermuse, a division of Willoughby Associates, Ltd., Northwestern University Research Park, USA
Partners, Profiles, and the Public: Building a Virtual Museum Community
Bruce Williams, Director, Information Services and Wendy Thomas, Project Leader, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada
The End of the Mausoleum: Museums in the Age of Electronic Communication
Andrea Witcomb, Lecturer, Research Institute for Cultural Heritage Studies, Curtin University, Australia
Realizing New Means: Networked Access to Research Collections
H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University, USA
III. Managing and Integrating Web Technologies
From Pilot to Program: Organizing Content Creation as a Web Site Grows
Stephen Alsford, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canada
Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen) 1996: Managing Culture on the Web
Markus W. Schranz, Systems Department, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Enabling Technology for Museum Visitors: Issues and Experiences
Mikael Fernström and Liam Bannon, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Integrating Collections Management Information into Online Exhibits: The Web as Facilitator for Linking Two Separate Processes
Howard Besser, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Building Integrated Museum Information Retrieval Systems: Practical Approaches to Data Organization and Access
Jim Blackaby, Senior Systems Developer, Office of Technology Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA; and Beth Sandore, Coordinator for Imaging Projects, Digital Library Research Program, University of Illinois, USA
SGML: Show me which road Iėm on
Michael Vulpe, Founder and CEO, Infrastructures for Information Inc., Toronto, Canada
Architecture for Online Museums of the Future: An Object Server for the Future (ELISE II)
John Eyre, Senior Project Manager, IIELR, UK
Dynamic Generation of Museum Web Pages: The Intelligent Labelling Explorer
Janet Hitzeman, HCRC Language Technology Group; Chris Mellish, Department of Artificial Intelligence; and Jon Oberlander, Human Communication Research Centre - University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The specialist seeks expert views: managing digital folders in the AQUARELLE project
Martin Doerr, Irene Fundulaki, and Vassilis Christophidis, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology. Hellas, Greece
Virtual Museums: How to make digital information child-friendly?
Slavoljub Milekic, School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, USA
IV. Creating and Using Web Resources
The Future of the Past: Archaeology and Anthropology on the Web
John W. Hoopes, Associate Professor and Associate Curator, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, The University of Kansas, USA
Hubble Space Telescope: A Web Resource for Museums and Planetaria
Prue Campbell, Education Special Projects Coordinator, and Dr. Carol Christian, Director, Office of Public Outreach Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
Going On-line: Moving Multi-media Exhibits onto the Web
Sandy Kydd and Douglas MacKenzie, DMC Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
ArtsEdNet: Assessing an Arts Education Web Site
Candace M. Borland, Program Officer, and Naree Wongse-Sanit, Program Associate, The Getty Education Institute for the Arts, USA
Utopia: User and Uses
Noni Korf Vidal, Cornell University, USA
At Home in the Heartland Online: forming a museum/school resource via the Web
Laura Lewis, Education Coordinator, At Home in the Heartland Online, USA
The Digital Darwins Project: 3-D Resources for Interactive Natural Science via the Internet
Charles M. Calvo, Director of Research, School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, USA; Dr. A.L. Rosenberger, Director, BioVisualization Lab, Smithsonian Institution, USA; and Carl Hansen, Branch Chief, Office of Imaging and Photographic Services, National Museum of Natural History, USA
Images as Evidence in Art History and Related Disciplines
Charles S. Rhyne, Professor of Art History, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
V. Authorsė Biographies
Biographies
VI. Index (by Author)
Index