Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010

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Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.

Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web.

The MW Program

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MW features plenary sessions, parallel sessions, un-conference sessions, museum project demonstrations, commercial exhibits, mini-workshops, professional forums, a usability lab, a design 'Crit Room,' and the Best of the Web awards.

Prior to the conference, there are full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops and a day of pre-conference tours.

Social events include receptions each evening, a Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch, and plenty of refreshment breaks to provide lots of time to meet and talk with colleagues from around the world.

Who Attends MW?

Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives join the professionals, companies, foundations and governments that support them and attend Museums and the Web every year. See the list of institutions that will be represented at MW2010 for a sense of the diversity of this fun, creative and enthusiastic group.

Space is available in the Exhibit Hall for Commercial participants. Other Sponsorship opportunities are also available.

Call for Participation

The MW2010 Program is composed based on an open Call for Participation. The deadline for most proposals was September 30, 2009; the deadline for demonstration proposals was December 31, 2009.

Program Selection

The MW2010 Program is selected through peer-review by an International Program Committee.

Scholarships and Volunteers

Archives & Museum Informatics awards MW Scholarships to museum professionals from small institutions and developing countries. Scholarship applications were due December 31, 2009.

Students are invited to volunteer at MW; they may attend the conference in exchange for helping out. Volunteer applications are accepted until all spaces are filled.

Can't Make It? Get the Book.

MW2010 Presenters submit written papers; the best appear in print in Museums and the Web 2010: Selected papers from an international conference. All papers are also published on-line and on CD-ROM. Discounted advance orders of the Selected Papers and CD-ROM Proceedings are now being taken.

Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences – since 1997 – are on-line, and searchable. Printed volumes of Selected Papers from MW97 – MW2009 are also available to order.