Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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National Park Service Museum Collections website

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online collections
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website rebuild
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Museum Websites
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National Park Service
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A collaborative effort, between the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service and the University of Tennessee (UTK), has lead to a completely redesigned website for the National Park Service (NPS) museum collections.

Type: 
Demonstration - show your project
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Too much stuff! Content strategy for museum websites

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content strategy
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Website architecture
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evaluation, user analysis, engagement, on-line audience, user behaviour, metrics, statistics
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Museum Websites
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museum victoria
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Web publishing systems and distributed authorship can lead to almost endless publishing: easily, quickly, and by lots of people. That’s great, but we rapidly have TOO MUCH STUFF. As a result, quality suffers, maintenance is hard and users struggle to find the content they’re looking for.

Type: 
Professional Forum - discuss an issue
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Online Presence and the Act of Not Just Being There. The Use of Social Media by Danish Museums

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social media
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Facebook
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Museum Websites
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Denmark
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online presence
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survey
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Through the last decades, a large amount of different initiatives have been set to explore, innovate and develop the presence of museums online both in an international context and in a Danish setting.

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Paper - in formal session
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