Museums and the Web

Museums and the Web

The annual Museums and the Web conference is the leading international conference in the field of museums and their websites. It has been organized by Archives & Museum Informatics each Spring in North America since 1997.[1][2][3]

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Overview

The conference considers the interdisciplinary museological field of how museums and their users can benefit from the use of the World Wide Web. All papers from the conferences are freely available on the web. Selected papers are published in a printed proceedings each year. The first conference in 1997 attracted around 400 delegates from around the world and subsequent conferences have attracted even more.

Museums and the Web also includes annual Best of the Web awards for museum-related websites in a number of different categories, as well as an overall winner.[4]

Individual conferences

  1. MW1997, March 16–19, 1997 — Los Angeles, California, USA
  2. MW1998, April 22–25, 1998 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. MW1999, March 11–14, 1999 — New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  4. MW2000, April 16–19, 2000 — Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA[5]
  5. MW2001, March 14–17, 2001 — Seattle, Washington, USA[6][7]
  6. MW2002, April 17–20, 2002 — Boston, Massachusetts, USA[8][9]
  7. MW2003, March 19–22, 2003 — Charlotte, North Carolina, USA[10][11]
  8. MW2004, March 31 – April 3, 2004 — Arlington, Virginia / Washington DC, USA[12]
  9. MW2005, April 13–17, 2005 — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[13]
  10. MW2006, March 22–25, 2006 — Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
  11. MW2007, April 11–14, 2007 — San Francisco, California, USA
  12. MW2008, April 8–12, 2008 — Montreal, Quebec, Canada[14][15][16]
  13. MW2009, April 14–18, 2009 — Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
  14. MW2010, April 13–17, 2010 — Denver, Colorado, USA
  15. MW2011, April 6–9, 2011 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  16. MW2012, April 11–14, 2012 — San Diego, California, USA
  17. MW2013, April 17–20, 2013 — Portland, Oregon, USA

See also

  • ICHIM (International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting)
  • EVA Conferences
  • Wikipedia as a conference paper source

References

  1. ^ Rentschler, Ruth, and Hede, Anne-Marie (2007). Museum marketing: competing in the global marketplace. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 30. ISBN 978-0750680653. http://books.google.com/books?id=y3VZO0iAD6YC. 
  2. ^ David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Interactivity comes of age: Museums and the World Wide Web, Museum International, 51(4):20–24, 1999. doi:10.1111/1468-0033.00225
  3. ^ Museums and the Web, Museums Wiki.
  4. ^ Internet: Best of the Web awards. New Heritage, 03.00:58, June 2000.
  5. ^ Museums and the Web 2000: Selected papers from an international conference. Pittsburgh, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2000. ISBN 1-885626-20-7.
  6. ^ Museums and the Web 2001: Selected papers from an international conference. Pittsburgh, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2001. ISBN 1-885626-23-1.
  7. ^ Report: Museums and the Web conference. New Heritage, 03.01:64-65, June 2001.
  8. ^ Museums and the Web 2002: Selected papers from an international conference. Pittsburgh, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2002. ISBN 1-885626-25-8.
  9. ^ Online: Museums and the Web conference 2002. New Heritage, 03.02:56, June 2002.
  10. ^ Museums and the Web 2003: Selected papers from an international conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2003. ISBN 1-885626-27-4.
  11. ^ Online: Museums and the Web 2003 conference. New Heritage, 03.03, June 2003.
  12. ^ Museums and the Web 2004: Selected papers from an international conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2004. ISBN 1-885626-29-0.
  13. ^ Museums and the Web 2005: Selected papers from an international conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2005. ISBN 1-885626-31-2.
  14. ^ David Mattison, Museums and the Web 02008 Conference, The Ten Thousand Year Blog, 2008.
  15. ^ Twelfth Annual Museums and the Web Conference (MW2008), Confabb: The conference community, 2008.
  16. ^ Museums and the Web 2008, Yahoo! upcoming, 2008.

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