Re: Online Catalogue Planning

2002-07-12 Thread Ann Sinfield
udio. - Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: Online Catalogue Planning Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem, the Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. Louis is also in the planning stages of developing an online, searchable catalogu

Re: Online Catalogue Planning

2002-07-12 Thread Julie Beamer
Matt Morgan wrote: > > I really wonder about user studies of searchable online collections. I'm > going to go out on a limb and predict that either no convincing studies > have been done, or that most people don't really use them. > > I spend a lot of time thinking about this, but I feel like I

Re: Online Catalogue Planning

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Morgan
Cláudio. - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: Online Catalogue Planning > > Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem, the Gallery of Art at Washington University > in St. Louis is also in the planning stages of developing an online, > searchable

Re: Online Catalogue Planning: Web Component

2002-05-16 Thread Douglas MacKenzie
At 09:48 16/05/02 -0400, you wrote: Julie Beamer wrote: I'm sure it depends on the museum, but we get a lot of calls from non-curators about our photograph collection, portraits, and even some artifacts. We are planning to make our database available to the public (hopefully some time next yea

Re: Online Catalogue Planning: Web Component

2002-05-16 Thread Julie Beamer
Douglas MacKenzie wrote: > > Several people have written about making museum catalogues available via > the Web. It's not terribly difficult to do this but the important question > is why anyone would want to? How many folk come into your physical museum > and ask if they can do, or someone can do

Re: Online Catalogue Planning: Web Component

2002-05-16 Thread Douglas MacKenzie
Several people have written about making museum catalogues available via the Web. It's not terribly difficult to do this but the important question is why anyone would want to? How many folk come into your physical museum and ask if they can do, or someone can do for them, a search of the catal

Re: Online Catalogue Planning

2002-05-15 Thread Guenter Waibel
May 15, 2002 7:21 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Online Catalogue Planning Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem, the Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. Louis is also in the planning stages of developing an online, searchable catalogue of its collection (we recognize we are behind the times).

Re: Online Catalogue Planning

2002-05-15 Thread Marla Misunas
.org Board Member, Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu -Original Message- From: stephanie_parr...@aismail.wustl.edu [mailto:stephanie_parr...@aismail.wustl.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:21 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Online Catalogue Planning Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem,