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Colin, I have recently completed my thesis on the credibility of web sites for museums as part of an MA at the University of Manchester. During my research, I came across many articles published on the web, which tackled the subjects of how to build a successful web site. I found the papers published as part of the Museums and the Web conferences in 1998 and 1999 particulary useful - http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/papers and http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/papers/ (the 1997 papers are also available but only in printed form). Other articles worth looking at are: D Bearman, 'Museum Strategies for Success on the Internet', paper based on a talk delivered at the conference 'Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway' held at the Science Museum, London on 10 May 1995, http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/infosh/bearman.htm K Futers, 'Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want: a look at Internet user needs', http://www.mdocassn.demon.co.uk/eva_kf.htm R Sabin, 'Museums and their Websites: An examination and Assessment of how Museums are coping with the challenge of the World Wide Web', Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2 (May 1997), http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/jcms/issue2/sabin.html consulted on 12 July 1999 If you wish to read the conclusions of my thesis, I will gladly e-mail a copy to you. Best regards Debbie Sequeira PS. I am now in London and would be interested in any projects involving museum web sites or the documentation of collections which I can help out on. I can be reached by e-mail on [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:14:25 -0000 Reply-to: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museums WWW site Dear all, I'm a new subscriber to this group so apologies if my question has been discussed before. I am about to start a major reappraisal of the WWW site for the Norfolk Museums Service and I have been looking at other museum WWW sites to get a feel for design, content etc. However, I would like to know whether any studies or research has been done into what makes a good museum WWW site. This might include a look at who visits such sites (tourists, local people, teachers etc.) and for what purpose. If anybody can help with this then I would be very grateful. Best wishes, Colin Hynson (Education Officer, Norfolk Museums Service) ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%