Archives & Museum Informatics: MW99

Archives & Museum Informatics
2008 Murray Ave.,
Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA
15217 USA

Published: March 1999.

Experienced professionals offered in-depth training at Museums and the Web pre-conference Workshops.

On March 11, 1999 (the day before the formal Museums and the Web program began) full and half-day workshops were offered by leaders in the museum computing field. Topics were both theoretical and practical, offering attendees a focussed way to build their skills.

Thursday March 11, 1999

9:00 AM- 5:00 PM full day	1. Immersive Histories: Digital Storytelling and Computer Game Design Thom Gillespie, Indiana University, USA
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM full day	2. Managing Your Museum Web Site Naree Wongse-Sanit, Getty Education Institute for the Arts, USA Jim Angus, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM full day	3. QuickTime Virtual Reality in Cultural Heritage Presentation James Devine, University of Glasgow, Scotland
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM full day	4. Images for the Web: Managing Digital Access Projects Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University, USA Carol A. DeNatale, H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, USA
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM full day	5. Schools & Museums in Partnership -- Creating Online Exhibits and Museums CANCELLED
9:00 AM- 12:30 PM half day	6. Developing Museum Information Policies Michael S. Shapiro, Esq., Art Museum Image Consortium, USA
9:00 AM- 12:30 PM half day	7. Digital Interfaces for Art & Science Exploration for Special Populations Slavko Milekic, Hampshire College, USA
9:00 AM- 12:30 PM half day	8. Web Publication Made Easy with SGML/XML Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
9:00 AM- 12:30 PM half day	9. Building Your Own Web Site Jonathan Bowen, University of Reading, United Kingdom
9:00 AM- 12:30 PM half day	10. MW99 City Desk CANCELLED
1:30 PM- 5:00 PM half day	11. WebSite Information Architecture: Planning and Designing Information Collections on the Web Paul Kahn, Dynamic Diagrams, USA
1:30 PM- 5:00 PM half day	12. Selecting Advanced Features for Museum Web Sites Jonathan Bowen, University of Reading, United Kingdom
1:30 PM- 5:00 PM half day	13. Implementing the Dublin Core for Museums Paul Miller, UK Office for Library & Information Networking, United Kingdom Thomas Hofmann, The Powerhouse Museum, Australia
1:30 PM- 5:00 PM half day	14. Musing on Meanings: Theory and Practice of Museum Web Site Development and Use Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA Larry Friedlander, Stanford Learning Lab, USA
6:00 PM- 8:00 PM event	Re-U Man In the Beginning God Was Dead: Re-U-Man Udi Aloni, USA