MW2002 featured a variety of sessions exploring all aspects of the creation, development, maintenance and evaluation of Web sites in museums, cultural and heritage organizations.

Sessions are listed chronologically below, or you can see an overview of the program.

Thursday April 18, 2002

9:30 AM- 10:30 AM Plenary	Opening Plenary The Museum: A Building Type in Transition William Mitchell, USA
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Beyond the Screen	Digital Curation netzspannung.org - A Collaborative Knowledge Space for Media Art and Technology Stefan Paal, Gabriele Blome, Monika Fleischmann, Jasminko Novak, Wolfgang Strauss, Germany Internet: a dynamic, living archive of digital art? Dew Harrison, United Kingdom Hacking Culture Pia Vigh, Denmark
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Assessment	Evaluation Frameworks Cruising through Patricia Gillard, Australia Evaluating the features of Museum Websites (The Bologna Report) Nicoletta Di Blas, Maria Pia Guermandi, Carolina Orsini, Paolo Paolini, Italy There's Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear Kate Haley Goldman, Melissa Wadman, USA
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Information Management	Integrated Publishing Adding value to large multimedia collections through annotation technologies and tools: Serving communities of interest. Andy Dingley, Libby Miller, Paul Shabajee, United Kingdom Exhibiting Communications: Digital Narratives at the National Library of Medicine Elizabeth Mullen, Patricia Tuohy, USA Integrating a Traveling Exhibit, Catalogue and Educational Web Site Chuck Barger, E. Michael Whittington, USA
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Knowledge	Learning in Theory and Practice 2001: A Cyberspace Odyssey Phyllis Hecht, Julie Springer, USA How Do You Like To Learn? Comparing User Preferences and Visit Length of Educational Web Sites Margaret Chambers, Steven Allison-Bunnell, Minda Borun, David Schaller, USA Learning by Design: Teachers / Museums / Technology Lisa Korteweg, Canada Brenda Trofanenko, USA
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Information Management	Standards in Action Combining the CIDOC CRM and MPEG-7 to Describe Multimedia in Museums Jane Hunter, Australia Now That We've Found the 'Hidden Web' What Can We Do With It? The Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Experience Timothy Cole, Joanne Kaczmarek, Paul Marty, Chris Prom, Beth Sandore, Sarah Shreeves, USA The Virtual Ramp to the Equivalent Experience in the Virtual Museum: Accessibility to Museums on the Web Charles McCathieNevile, Liddy Nevile, Australia
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Knowledge	Teachers and Museums Pyramid Power: A Train-the-Trainer Model to Increase Teacher Usage of the ArtsConnectEd On-line Resource Scott Sayre, Kris Wetterlund, USA Think Globally, Act Locally: The Role of Real Teachers in Community Science Issues Martin Bazley, Lyndsey Clark, United Kingdom Barbara Bottaro, Karen Elinich, USA Digital Primary Source Materials in the Classroom Nuala Bennett, Brenda Trofanenko, USA
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Beyond the Screen	Touching the Virtual Inuit 3D: An Interactive Virtual 3D Web Exhibition Frank Corcoran, Jeffery Demaine, Louis-Guy Dicaire, Michel Picard, John Taylor, Canada Towards Tangible Virtualities: Tangialities Slavko Milekic, USA The Museum Wearable Flavia Sparacino, USA
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Information Management	Content Management Here and there: managing multiply - purposed digital assets on the Duyfken website Valerie Hobbs, Diarmuid Pigott, Marjolein Towler, Australia Today's Authoring Tools for Tomorrow's Semantic Web Andy Dingley, Paul Shabajee, United Kingdom Content Management for a Content-Rich Website Nik Honeysett, USA
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Assessment	Evaluation Experience The Design and Development of an Online Exhibition for Heritage Information Awareness Schubert Foo, Leong Chee Khoon, Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Singapore Statistics, Structures & Satisfied Customers: Using web log data to improve site performance Darren Peacock, Australia Pre-Testing to Predict Participation in Online Communities Ana Ramirez Carr, Mexico The Uses of Virtual Museums: The French Viewpoint Roxane Bernier, Canada
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Knowledge	My Web, My Way Beyond Data Driven: The Development of Mystic Seaport's Website James Blackaby, USA Exhibits on Demand - Project Goals and Approach Joan Nordbotten, Norway Systematically Speaking: How Do Natural History Museum Web Sites Represent Science? Roy Hawkey, United Kingdom
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Beyond the Screen	The Enhanced Gallery Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments Paul M. Aoki, Rebecca E. Grinter, Amy Hurst, Margaret Szymanski, James Thornton, Allison Woodruff, USA Can you see me? Exploring co-visiting between physical and virtual visitors Matthew Chalmers, Areti Galani, United Kingdom Diving in at the Deep End - The British Galleries at the V&A Nick Brod, United Kingdom

Friday April 19, 2002

	Exhibit Hall open all day
10:30 AM- 11:30 AM	Mini Workshop: Design Mini Workshop: E-Mail Marketing Mini Workshop: How Small Institutions Implement Large Web Sites Mini Workshop: Project Management
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Mini Workshop: Networked multi-sensory experiences
10:30 AM- 4:00 PM	Usability Lab
11:30 PM- 1:00 PM	Crit Room 1
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM	Mini Workshop: Accessibility Mini Workshop: Digital Rights Management Mini Workshop: Image File Formats Mini Workshop: Resource Description Framework (RDF)
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM	Crit Room 2
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM	Mini Workshop: Broadband Programming Mini Workshop: Museophile Mini Workshop: E-Docents Mini Workshop: Performance to Web Mini Workshop: MuseDoma

Saturday April 20, 2002

11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Information Management	Experiencing Complex Data Making It Realtime: Exploring the use of optimized realtime environments for historical simulation and education. Carl Vilbrandt, Turlif Vilbrandt, Japan Chris Calef, Janet Goodwin, James Goodwin, USA The Electronic Guidebook: Using Portable Devices and a Wireless Web-based Network to Extend the Museum Experience Robert Semper, Mirjana Spasojevic, USA Weaving Meaning: the W3C's Semantic Web Initiatives Eric Miller, USA
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Information Management	Thinking Big Virtual Pyramids: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Giza Archives Project Peter Der Manuelian, USA Documenting the V&A's collecting, publishing, and exhibiting history Douglas Dodds, United Kingdom Swiss National Museums - the design of a virtual museum Harald Krämer, Austria Konrad Jaggi, Switzerland
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM World Strategies	World Cultures, World Strategies Native American Art in Cyberspace Alex Traube, USA The first W -- A Web Site for Non-English Speaking Audiences Lawrence Swiader, USA South Africa, Storytelling and the Web Katherine Goodnow, Yngvar Natland, Norway Representing Asia: Building a Web Site for the Musée Guimet, Paris Mark Carlson, France
2:30 PM- 3:30 PM	Real Access, Virtual Guides Designing The Accessible Museum: If I Can Experience It, Everyone Can Experience it Better Jeff Moyer, USA
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM panel	Exhibit Design as Experience Design Exhibit Design as Experience Design: merging the worlds of museums, technology, and performance Nicole et Norbert Corsino, France Jeff Burke, Philip Greenspun, Paul Kuranko, Jane Pickering, Rehmi Post, Matt Reynolds, Flavia Sparacino, Patricia Tuohy, USA