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Participants: Brian Kelly: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk, ukwebfocus.wordpress.com: Frank Kresin: frank@waag.org, Jan Carmichael: carmichael.jan@gmail.com, Vivian Ducat, Maria van Zeller: mvanzeller@sistemasfuturo.pt, Jes Koepfler: koepfler@ilinet.org

Acronyms that were flying around:

Although I am currently at a different conference (Educause West), my mind keeps coming back to MOW, especially after the session on accessibility that I just sat in. Terry Thomposon of the University of Washington gave an excellent presentation that reminding me of the discussion (and admonition) of Jim Angus on the importance of accessibility, especially the proper use of alt and img tags. Terry is part of a grass roots initiative at U of W that is promoting and working hard to make all web pages accessible.

IDEA, the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement, just released “Finding Information: Factors that improve online experiences,” which reports the findings of a study that the California-based nonprofit organization conducted recently.

zinc Roe is looking for feedback from the library and museum community as we start to map out the feature set of the next version of our book display and annotation tools. If you're interested please take a quick look at A Real Page Turner and share your thoughts. 

Several people asked for a copy of my presentation, so here is a pdf of it.
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It seems like the more time we spend online, the more we value real experiences. However, there are some things, like history, that can only be replicated, not experienced. Fortunately, the digital medium is ideally suited to illuminating the past.

mcn in chicago: opening plenaryi'm at MCN in Chicago for the next few days, and i'll be blogging my notes. first up, a day on professionalization and changes in the field, as th is is MCN's 40th anniversary.

Museum Studies Programs: That Was Then, This Is Now

Marla Misunas began this session by surveying the emergence of 'computer skills' as a requirement in collections management jobs advertised in Aviso. Amusingly, she notes, these were required first in assistant registrars, before registrars had to be computer literate. Marla suggests that the following skills are required for collections managers:

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Hi All,

We're developing an xhtml markup standard for the presentation of works of art on the web, based on existing XML schema.

I've initiated exploratory discussions on the microformats.org wiki at:

http://microformats.org/wiki/work-of-art

I'm sure a lot of you have thoughts about how best to use semantic markup to present artworks. What class names do you usually use? What is the structure of the "object information" page on your website? What metadata schema do your museums use behind the scenes?

Congratulations to the winners of the Best of the Web Award winners! all the sites are now linked on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/best/

For those who attended our presentation on the implications of broadband content for accessibility (and for those who didn't!) I've attached the Powerpoint presentation slides to this story.

You can also follow these links to the examples of broadband content with accessibility features that we showed: