To: museum-related mailing lists and
    those with an interest in on-line museums

[Feel free to forward this message if appropriate.]

Please note that there is a new feature on the Museophile forums website
providing an interface to museum-related announcements and discussions
under:

    http://forums.museophile.net/

A significant number of publicly accessible museum-related electronic
mailing lists (for example, MUSEUM-L, H-Museum, etc.) are now available via
the Museophile forums interface. You need to register for an account if you
wish to use this facility, but this is relatively straightforward, although
it does require verification via email for security. Once logged in, select
"Display Preferences" and then select the External Feeds that you would like
to be displayed on your personalised Museophile forums homepage. You can
preview current messages on each feed by following the associated hyperlink.
A Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) search box with selected news links
may also be included if desired.

For those interested in the technicalities, these feeds are interfaced via
Resource Description Framework (RDF) files (a W3C XML standard). If you know
of other relevant RDF feeds, you are welcome to select "Submit Feed" under
the External Feeds section on your Museophile forums homepage. If you know
if other museum-related lists with archives (e.g., as provided by
"listserv") accessible via the web that you think are worth including,
please email me brief details including the URL web location for the
archive.

We hope you find this facility a useful way to interface to many of the
major museum-related mailing lists that are available online as well as
providing additional forums, which you are welcome to browse (e.g., by
following the "search" link) and also to which you can contribute by
selecting "submit story". If you would like to suggest additional forums,
please email me (details below).

Please note that we are also still seeking responses to a questionnaire
concerning museum discussion forums. See under:

    http://forums.museophile.net//questionnaire/

It is available in English and French. We have received over a hundred
responses so far. Thank you to those who have already completed it. We hope
to use the feedback to improve the Museophile forums facilities, as well as
publishing the results in due course.

--
Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Professor of Computing
School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics (SCISM)
South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK
Email: [log in to unmask]  URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~bowenjp/
Museophile Limited: http://www.museophile.com/
Personal:
Email: [log in to unmask]    URL: http://www.jpbowen.com/

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