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Once again, the 1998 Best of the Web Contest will be held in conjunction with Museums and the Web, the only international conference devoted to museums' use of the World Wide Web.  [The full program for MW98 is available at the conference web site: http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/]

Awards will be made by an international panel of judges, representing the spectrum of those involved in web site development in museums including previous winners, students, artists and initiators of innovative projects. The criteria used for evaluation of the best museum Web sites will be based on the draft Criteria for Evaluating Museum Multimedia (see http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html) put together by the ICOM/CIDOC Multimedia Working Group in Nuremburg in Sept. 1997.

Return the on-line nomination form (http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html) to nominate your favourite site for consideration. The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony in Toronto. Prizes include free registration at Museums and the Web 99 for the institution judged Best Overall.

Rewarding innovative projects, whose conception illustrates the possibilities for future designs on the Web is a the concern for all involved in museum web projects. Please join me in ensuring that the Best of the Web is a great venue for this.

If you have any queries do not hesitiate to contact the Contest Coordinator, Sarah Kenderdine
<[log in to unmask]> or the Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman <[log in to unmask]> and Jennifer Trant <[log in to unmask]> of Archives & Museum Informatics (http://www.archimuse.com/). 

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.


Sarah Kenderdine
Coordinator, Best of the Web
Museums and the Web 1998