Museums and the Web 2002: Selected Papers from an International Conference (6th, Boston, Massachusetts, April 17-20, 2002).

This proceedings contains the following selected papers from the Museums and the Web 2002 international conference: "The Electronic Guidebook: Using Portable Devices and a Wireless Web-Based Network To Extend the Museum Experience" (Robert Semper, Mirjana Spasojevic); "Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments" (Allison Woodruff, Paul M. Aoki, Rebecca E. Grinter, Amy Hurst, Margaret H. Szymanski, James D. Thornton); "Can You See Me? Exploring Co-Visiting Between Physical and Virtual Visitors" (Areti Galani, Matthew Chalmers); "The Museum Wearable: Real-Time Sensor-Driven Understanding of Visitors' Interests for Personalized Visually-Augmented Museum Experiences" (Flavia Sparacino); "Now That We've Found the 'Hidden Web,' What Can We Do With It? The Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Experience" (Timothy W. Cole, Joanne Kaczmarek, Paul F. Marty, Christopher J. Prom, Beth Sandore, Sarah Shreeves); "Combining the CIDOC CRM and MPEG-7 To Describe Multimedia in Museums" (Jane Hunter); "Today's Authoring Tools for Tomorrow's Semantic Web" (Andy Dingley, Paul Shabajee); "The Virtual Ramp to the Equivalent Experience in the Virtual Museum: Accessibility to Museums on the Web" (Liddy Nevile, Charles McCathieNevile); "Adding Value to Large Multimedia Collections through Annotation Technologies and Tools: Serving Communities of Interest" (Paul Shabajee, Libby Miller); "Content Management for a Content-Rich Website" (Nik Honeysett); "Here and There: Managing Multiply-Purposed Digital Assets on the Duyfken Web Site" (Marjolein Towler, Valerie Hobbs, Diarmuid Pigott); "Pyramid Power: A Train-the-Trainer Model To Increase Teacher Usage of the ArtsConnectEd On-Line Resource" (Scott Sayre, Kris Wetterlund); "Digital Primary Source Materials in the Classroom" (Nuala Bennett, Brenda Trofanenko); "Statistics, Structures & Satisfied Customers: Using Web Log Data To Improve Site Performance" (Darren Peacock); "How Do You Like To Learn? Comparing User Preferences and Visit Length of Educational Web Sites" (David T. Schaller, Steven Allison-Bunnell, Minda Borun, Margaret B. Chambers); "Evaluating The Features of Museum Websites: (The Bologna Report)" (Nicoletta Di Blas, Carolina Orsini, Maria Pia Guermandi, Paolo Panlini); "Towards Tangible Virtualities: Tangialities" (Slavko Milekic); "Making It Realtime: Exploring the Use of Optimized Realtime Environments for Historical Simulation and Education" (Chris Calef, Turlif Vilbrandt, Carl Vilbrandt, Janet Goodwin, James Goodwin); "Networked Multi-Sensory Experiences: Beyond Browsers on the Web and in the Museum" (Fabian Wagmister, Jeff Burke); "Systematically Speaking: How Do Natural History Museum Web Sites Represent Science?" (Roy Hawkey); "Hacking Culture" (Pia Vigh); and "Storytelling and the Web in South African Museums" (Katherine J. Goodnow, Yngvar Natland). Author biographies are included. An accompanying CD-ROM includes: a list of all the speakers at the conference and links to their abstracts, biographies, and papers (where available); an overview of the Museums and the Web 2002 conference program and links to abstracts and paper biographies; and the results of the Best of the Web 2002 conference (requires Internet access). Most papers contain references. (MES)