I was intentionally going off on a historical tangent, rather than trying to
answer Richard.
The "first museum website" thing interests me because I lived through that
moment, which, in the trivia-filled history of cyberspace, was pretty
significant for us. I'll move the discussion to the blog.
From: Waibel,G?nter
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:29 AM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: RLG DigiNews Special Issue now available: Managing digital assets in
US Museums
I think this is rather apropos considering the recent discussion abou
The Art Institute of Chicago has a job vacancy for an experienced 4D
developer. We use a large 4D application (100 seats) as our
collection management system.
Please see job posting below. This is a full-time, salaried position,
35 hours/week. Feel free to email me with any preliminary quest
Interesting. I distinctly remember the Dallas Museum of Art being the
first museum I found on the Web.
Amalyah
At 14:25 19/12/2006, you wrote:
>I would vote for Dallas Museum of Art - whose former IT director now
>works for Microsoft in Dallas
>
>He sure turned me onto the web, and when I sta
>From a branding standpoint you should always try to promote your domain
name as cleanly as possible. The chances of anyone typing a long url
correctly are slim, and ideally as Ari says, it should be memorable so
that they don't need the listing to type it out. The ideal situation is
to list your d
Hi Holly,
True, I'm more interested in finding where the curve starts for museum computer
gaming. Asking about firsts always seems to generate interesting discussions.
This is part of the background story for my M&W session on Second Life. SL
often gets represented as the newest, best thing s
So, which WAS the first museum to have a website?
At 22:13 18/12/2006, you wrote:
>This message is a request to all those wise souls who have been
>around for a while.
>
>We've had the conversation about "who was the first museum to have a
>web site." Here's mine. Do we know who was the first
Pardon me if I put in my two cents here, I think this discussion
encourages an already too prevalent culture of "firsts" in the museum
world. The great thing about firsts (and administration and p.r. love
them) is we generally learn a whole lot about how not to do things and
what we would do bette
Amalyah:
For a list of more than 200 museum and museum-related sites on-line
in 1995, see:
Taylor, Janet H., and Joe Ryan. 1995. "Museums and galleries on the
Internet". Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and
Policy 5 (1):80-88
jt
At 3:18 PM +0200 12/19/06, amalyah keshet
Hi Perian,
TASI has a comparison chart of image management systems, and other information
that might be relevant.
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/ims-software.html
William Real
Director of Technology Initiatives
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412.622
It depends on what you are promoting. If you are talking about your website
in general, use the main home page. If you are talking about something
specific, send people to that specific location (this is where you want to
either have human-readable URLs or build in some simple redirects). You
never
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