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Research Forum: Technology


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By jennifer trant - Posted on 06 November 2007

Technology issues in museums and the web research include:

  1. How well are existing tools and methods serving digital museum users? Do we need virtual museum evaluations to determine:
    • Are educational sites useful to teachers, students and free choice learners?
    • Can researchers effectively locate information about any given topic?
    • Do exhibition and content database creators have sufficient technology tools for their tasks?
  2. How can technology and tools be improvded to provide access to museum information? Focus qestions include:
    • How can the visibility of on-line museum resoures be improved?
    • How can the museum community provide better service for information seekers? including
      • integrating access to multiple museum resources
      • support for image-based retrieval