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Pioneering
a digital media art museum on the Web - Lin
Hsin Hsin
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Virtual
Eldorado: the Museo del Oro on the Internet -
Eduardo Londoņo L.
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Building
a Web site - Jim Angus
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The
Topkapi Palace Museum - A. Enis Cetin,
Omer N. Gerek and Ahmed H. Tewfik
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MUVA:
a virtual museum in Uruguay - Alicia Haber
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Cultural
computing: exploiting interactive digital media
- James Devine and Ray Welland
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Cybernetics,
modernism and pleasure in www.moma.org - Greg
Van Alstyne
Profile
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A
'chamber of wonders' in London: Sir John Soane's Museum
- Mihail Moldoveanu
Children
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Understanding
the city: Abasto in Buenos Aires - Cinthia Rajschmir
Summary
of Articles
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virtual museum
Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen is considered by many as the 'founding
father' of the Virtual Library museums pages, one of
the premier Internet sites in the museum field. He is
a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University
of Reading (United Kingdom), where he leads the Formal
Methods and Software Engineering Group, and was previously
a senior researcher at the Oxford University Computing
Laboratory. He has worked in the field of computing
in both industry and academia since 1977 and has served
on more than fifteen programme committees including
a major working group within the European Union information
technologies programme, ESPRIT. The author of 140 publications
including nine books, Jonathan Bowen won the 1994 IEE
(Institution of Electrical Engineers) Charles Babbage
Premium award. In 1997 he was honorary chair, workshop
presenter and an invited speaker at the first 'Museums
and the Web' conference and has been an active participant
in subsequent conferences.
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Pioneering
a digital media art museum on the Web
Lin Hsin Hsin
The award-winning Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum has attracted
more than 500,000 visitors from 107 countries since
it was launched in April 1995 ( http://www.lhham.com.sg/shop/love.html
). Its creator is an information technologist, artist
and poet based in Singapore who has built a repertoire
of some 1,000 works of electronic and digital art. She
is one of the six judges for the best art Web sites
organized by Museums and the Web in 1998. Besides living
in cyberspace, she has penned more than 100 articles
published in computer newspapers, international proceedings
and journals, and has had fifteen one-person and more
than 190 group exhibitions in forty-one cities across
twenty countries in Asia, Europe, North and South America.
In describing her groundbreaking work on the Internet,
she has employed a number of technical terms, which
are explained in a glossary at the end of the article.
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Virtual
Eldorado: the Museo del Oro on the Internet
Eduardo Londoņo L.
The Museo del Oro in Bogotá houses one of the premier
collections of pre-Columbian artefacts, gold pieces
of outstanding beauty and significance. Thanks to its
presence on the Internet, the institution has become
known to a world-wide audience while at the same time
strengthening its impact on the surrounding community.
Eduardo Londoņo, Head of Cultural Activities at the
museum, explains.
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Building
a Web site
Jim Angus
How does a major museum build and maintain a large
Web Site? What are the points to bear in mind and the
pitfalls to avoid? Jim Angus provides a step-by-step
approach based on his strong professional experience.
Manager of Information Technology and Web Development
at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
he is part of a small cadre of pioneers who led the
way in museum Web site design late in 1993. He is the
author of more than seven major Web sites and notably,
the Natural History Museum's Web site, which was selected
for 'best educational use at the first 'Museums and
the Web' conference in 1997.
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The
Topkapi Palace Museum
A.Enis Cetin, Omer N. Gerek and Ahmed H. Tewfik
A city-like ensemble overlooking the Marmara Sea and
the Bosphorus, Istanbul's legendary Topkapi Palace became
a synonym for Ottoman history and the heart of a far-flung
empire for 400 years. Transformed into a museum, it
houses a vast and disparate treasure. Presenting both
the splendours of the palace and the richness of its
collections on the Internet was the challenge described
below. The authors, all with backgrounds in electrical
engineering, are professionally involved in areas of
advanced research in the new technologies. After having
served as visiting associate professor at the University
of Minnesota in the United States, A. Enis Cetin, is
a professor at Bilkent University in Ankara and chairman
of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers)-EURASIP (European Association for Signal
Processing) Non-linear Signal and Image Processing Workshop,
held in Ankara in June 1999. Omer N. Gerek is currently
with the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology-EPFL in Lausanne (on leave from
the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey). Ahmed H. Tewfik
is a professor of electronic communications at the University
of Minnesota and was the first Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Signal Processing Letters in 1993.
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MUVA:
a virtual museum in Uruguay
Alicia Haber
An architecturally stunning museum with a unique collection
of contemporary art, MUVA can be found only on the Internet
-and in the imagination of the creative team responsible
for its existence. Alicia Haber is its director and
guiding spirit. She is a teacher of art history and
has served as artistic adviser and chief exhibition
curator for the Department of Culture of the Municipality
of Montevideo since 1988. The author of many books and
monographs, she has also received a number of prestigious
grants and awards, including the Rockefeller Foundation
Mentor Grant and a Fulbright grant for research on art
administration to work at the Museum of Contemporary
Art of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. One of Uruguay's most renowned art critics,
she was elected the best Latin American critic of the
year in 1988 by the Art Critics Association of Argentina.
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Cultural
computing: exploiting interactive digital media
James Devine and Ray Welland
The Web site of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
at the University of Glasgow had to respond to a number
of imperatives. First and foremost, it was to make the
collections available to schools in the most remote
areas of Scotland as a complement to their curriculum.
It then had to highlight an extremely diverse collection
ranging from archaeology to zoology, with side trips
including the voyages of Captain Cook and the house
of world-famous architect and designer Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. The solution was found by using a mix of
interactive technologies in an innovative and imaginative
way. James Devine is head of Education and Digital Media
Resources at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. He
has spearheaded a wide variety of innovative multimedia
projects focused around the Hunterian collections, including
an award-winning Web site, and, with colleagues in the
Computing Science Department, has developed new applications
for leading-edge technologies. More recently, he led
field expeditions to Knossos in Crete to create Quick
Time Virtual Reality tours of the Minoan palace complex
on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Athens
and the Greek Ministry of Culture. Ray Welland is head
of the Department of Computing Science at the University
of Glasgow. His main research interest is in software
engineering and, more particularly, in its application
to the creation of large, multi-authored Web sites.
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Cybernetics,
modernism and pleasure in www.moma.org
Greg Van Alstyne
One of the foremost museums of its kind in the world,
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) quite naturally
turned to modernist design tenets in creating its Web
site so as to reflect the very 'spirit, or life energy'
of the institution itself. Greg Van Alstyne, the museum's
Design Manager, New Media, describes the thinking behind
this unusual conceptual approach.
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A
'chamber of wonders' in London: Sir John Soane's Museum
Mihail Moldoveanu
Mihail Moldoveanu, a freelance photographer and writer
based in Paris, describes a museum that is an intensely
personal reflection of one collector's eclectic and
wide-ranging artistic passions.
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Drive
and vision: the Museum Pambata in Manila
Cristina Lim-Yuson
A children's museum with an impressive urban outreach
programme, the Philippines' Museo Pambata is above all
a model of civic consciousness and pride. The author
is one of its founders and is now the museum's executive
director and concept developer. She holds a doctorate
in Early Childhood Education from the University of
the Philippines.
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Understanding
the city: Abasto in Buenos Aires
Cinthia Rajschmir
Explaining how cities function, revealing their underlying
and often invisible workings, helping children to grasp
the complex urban environment in which they live -these
were the challenges that led to the creation of an unusual
children's museum in Buenos Aires. Cinthia Rajschmir
was a member of the team that founded the Museo de los
Niņos: Abasto (Abasto Children's Museum) and participated
in the development of the main theme, the pedagogical
content and the basic materials used for the museum's
design. She is a graduate in the pedagogical sciences
and since 1993 has formed part of the editorial team
of the Revista Novedades Educativas (Educational
News Review). She is currently engaged in research
on the history of Argentine school museums as part of
a project being carried out by the University of Buenos
Aires.
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