Sunday, August 29, 2004

CFP - Museums and the Web 2005

Conference Name: Museums and the Web 2005
Conference Date: April 13-16, 2005
Conference Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Deadline: September 30, 2004

You are invited to participate in Museums and the Web 2005, the international conference for culture and heritage on-line. Propose to deliver a paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional discussion forum, offer a mini-workshop, or craft a session with a distinctive presentation format suited to your subject.

Topics of special interest include:

Social Issues and Impact
* Community Development
* Uses of Museum Web Content
* Museum Web Applications
* Changes in Cultural Institutions
* Artistic Uses of the Web

Organizational Strategies
* Multi-Institutional Ventures
* E-commerce for Museums
* Content Management
* Metadata Management
* Building and Managing Web Teams
* Portals and Gateways

Technical Questions
* Multi-media and Webcasting
* Development Tools and Processes
* Standards and Protocols
* The Semantic Web
* Interfaces and Beyond

Evaluation and User Studies
* User Analysis and Audience Profiling
* Usability Studies and Qualitative Assessment
* Formative and Summative Evaluation
* Methodological Investigations
* Implementation Impact Studies

Call for Papers URL: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/call.html
Conference URL: URL: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/

David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics
email: mw2005@archimuse.com