Date sent: 25-JUL-1994
 
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>The access of the software developer (or the subscriber to museum-l) to World
>Wide Web or Gopher probably already exists. But museum visitors are not
>hyper-linked objects. You have to actually go down and talk to them...
>
>Kevin Coffee
>AMNH
 
Kevin raises some excellent points. Though it needs to be kept in mind what
these systems might looklike in the future, when itis entirely possible that
our visitors _will_ be closer to hyper=linked objects.
 
Perhaps Robbin would agree that the reason mmedia often seems so gratuitous is
that it is not too "organic" for lack of a better word, in relation to the
practices of collections-based museum. As curators, exhibt
developers/designers, and curators actually process and coordinate their
information in mmedia as a matter of course, the transition of information will
become much moretransparent and the quality of information easier to monitor.
Right now, mmedia is used at the tail end of the process, as a method of
presentation, kind of an "outsider" technology. They key is, as hasbeen stated,
to getmuseums hooked up internally and externally, so that mmedia just makes
sense as a museum practice across the borad.
 
 
 
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