Michael Houghton
Visiting Fellow
South Bank University
School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics
Borough Road
London
SE1 0AA United Kingdom
Email: mike@idle.org
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/

Mike Houghton is working with Prof. Jonathan Bowen on museophile.com, a web-based information source about all aspects of museums. This work has involved significant strengthening of skills relating to XML, generic content databases, Unix and Internet site administration.

He has also presented a one-day seminar on XML for library technologists with the LITC group at South Bank University in October 2000, and several undergraduate lectures on XML, web servers, and related topics, for students taught by Prof. Bowen and others. Mike has undertaken much web-oriented consultancy work and has a Computer Science degree from the University of Reading.

Michael will present Online Museum Discussion Forums; What do we have? What do we need?