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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 482 044 IR 058 756 AUTHOR Bearman, David, Ed.; Trant, Jennifer, Ed. TITLE Museums and the Web 2001: Selected Papers from an International Conference (5th, Seattle, Washington, March 15- 17, 2001). INSTITUTION Archives and Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA. ISBN ISBN-1-885626-23-1 PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 218p.; Accompanying CD-ROM is not available from ERIC. For selected individual papers, see IR 058 757-776. AVAILABLE FROM Archives & Museum Informatics, 2008 Murray Ave., Suite D, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.archimuse.com/. For full text: http://www.archimuse.com/ mw2001/. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) Non-Print Media (100) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Access to Information; Archives; Computer Oriented Programs; Conferences; Exhibits; Information Management; Information Technology; *Museums; Online Systems; Technological Advancement; *World Wide Web IDENTIFIERS Museum Collections; Museum Libraries; *Virtual Museums; *Web Site Design ABSTRACT In this selection of papers from the conference, authors from 10 of the more than 35 countries and every continent (exceptAntarctica) provide discussions covering all levels of museum Web design.They brought a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds to the conference,all of which ensured new perspectives and new ideas. The meetings openedon Thursday with a pienary address, followed by a full day of sessions and two Crit Rooms. Friday featured sessions on accessibility, portals, and data interchange. This day also featured a variety of Mini-Workshops. The finalday began with two groups of demonstrations that were followed by sessionson design, licensing, schools, and new technology. MW2001 ended witha closing plenary. This proceedings includes the register; schedule of workshopsby leaders in the museum computing field; schedule of sessions, with linksto abstracts and full text papers; a table listing speakers (identifyingcountry, presentation title and indicating whether the paper is online); scheduleof interaction sessions (Mini-Workshops and Crit Rooms), with links to abstractsof Mini- Workshops; schedule and description of demonstrations; listof exhibits with descriptions of vendors; schedule of events; "Best of the Web" awards;key dates for future meetings; links to Seattle and Puget Soundarea museums and tourist information; and list of sponsors. An accompanyingCD-ROM includes: a list of all the speakers at the conference and links totheir abstracts, biographies, and papers (where available); an overview of theMuseums and the Web 2000 conference program and links to abstracts andpaper biographies; and the results of the Best of the Web 2000 conference (requiresInternet connection) .(AEF) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Museums and the Web 2001 Selected Papers from an International Conference PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) (Z121 This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization D. Bearman originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 Museums and the www.archimuse.com/ Web 2001 mw2001/ Archives Ce Museum Informatics Consulting, Publishing and Training for Cultural Heritage Professionals Informatics: The interdisciplinary study of information content, representation, technology and applications and the methods and strategies by which information is used in organizations, networks, cultures and societies. Archives & Museum Informatics organizes conferences, workshops and seminars, publishes journals and mono- graphs, and consults for cultural heritage organizations worldwide. For the past 10 years, our educational goal has been to provide specialists in archives and museum informatics with timely and challenging opportunities for professional exchange and training. 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Museums and the www.archimuse.com/ Web 2001 mw2001/ Selected Papers from an International Conference edited by David Bearman and JenniferTrant Museums and the Web 2001 Selected papers from an international conference edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Pittsburgh, PA:Archives & Museum Informatics ISBN: I -885626-23- I @Archives & Museum Informatics, 2001 Printed in the United States of America 6 Contents Introduction The Web as a Fact of Museum Life David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, USA 3 User Influenced Design Bringing the Curatorial Process to the Web Carrie Adams,Traci Cole, Christina De Paolo, Susan Edwards, Seattle Art Museum, USA II "Less Clicking, More Watching": Results from the User- Centered Design of a Multi-Institutional Web Site for Art and Culture John Vergo, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, Claudio Pinhanez, Renee Arora,Thomas Cofino, Doug Riecken, Mark Podlaseck, BM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA 23 Accessibility Techniques for Museum Web Sites Susan Anable,The Dayton Art Institute and Adam Alonzo, Wright State University, USA 33 Evaluating the Usability of a Museum Web Site Ilse Harms and Werner Schweibenz, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany 43 Design for(re-) Use A Re-usable Software Framework for Authoring and Managing Web Exhibitions Christian Breiteneder, Hubert Platzer,Vienna University of Technology, Martin Hitz, University of Klagenfurt,Austria 55 Design and Analysis ofVirtual Museums Gilles Falquet, Jacques Guyot, Luka Nerima, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Seongbin Park, Information Sciences Institute, USA 65 Re-Purposing of Content and Digital Delivery Convergence: Implications for Interface Design Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD,The University of the Arts, USA 77 7 ©Archives & Museum Informatics, 2001 Table of Contents New Content / New Uses A New Way of Making Cultural Information Resources Visible on the Web: Museums and the Open Archives Initiative John Perkins, CIM1 Consortium, Canada 87 Using Interactive Broadband Multicasting in a Museum Lifelong Learning Program Leonard Steinbach,The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA 93 Streaming Audio and Video: New Challenges and Opportuni- ties for Museums Jim Spadaccini, Ideum, USA 105 Personalizing Web Experiences Co-operation Metaphors for Virtual Museums Thimoty Barbieri, Paolo Paolini, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, Politecnico di Milano, Italy I 15 The HyperMuseum Theme Generator System: Ontology- based Internet Support for the Active Use of Digital Museum Data for Teaching and Presentation Peter Stuer, Robert Meersman, Steven De Bruyne, STARLab VUB, Belgium 127 Providing Personal Assistance in the SAGRES Virtual Museum Ana Carolina Bertoletti, Museu de Ciências e TecnologiaPUCRS, Marcia Cristina Moraes, PPGCC-UFRGS,Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Escola de InformaticaUCPEL, Brazil 139 OPALES:An Environment for Sharing Knowledge among Experts Working on Multimedia Archives Henri Betaille, Marc Nanard, Jocelyne Nanard, LIRMM, France 145 Being a Museum, Digitally "Beyond museum walls" -A critical analysis of emerging approaches to museum web-based education Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australian Museums On-Line, Australia 155 8 vi © Archives & Museum Informatics, 2001 Museums and the Web 2001 1000 years of the Olympic Games:Treasures of Ancient Greece: Digital Reconstruction at the Home of the Gods Sarah Kenderdine, Powerhouse Museum,Australia 163 Engaging Museums, Content Specialists, Educators, and Information Specialists:A Model and Examples C. Olivia Frost, University of Michigan, USA 177 Unseen Discussions: [email protected] Anthony Huberman P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, USA 189 A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland, UK 197 Maintaining the Magic The Virtual Aura - Is There Space for Enchantment in a Technological World? Susan Hazan,The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 209 About the Authors Learn about the People Represented Here 221 About the CD-ROM Full documentation of MW200 I and digital versions of submitted papers 230 ©Archives & Museum Informatics, 2001 vii Introduction 10 The Web as a Fact of Museum Life David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, USA The fifth year of Museums and theWeb comes at a time when the use of theWeb by museums and the need of museums to take advantage of the Web are givens. No-one questions the appropriateness of a museum Web site, only how well it achieves the goals the museum has set,and how fully those goals encompass the mission that the museum could be taking on in an age of nearly ubiquitous, increasingly broad-band, and narrow-casting. Each of us now expects to be able to use the Web to get instant information about museum offerings both in-town and around the world. In North America we imagine receiving Web content on