You came to the right place.  Our document, artifact and photo collections
are indexed on our website.  We are in the midst of developing the Texas
History Internet Consortium that will, initially, bring the collections of
four other museums and a major library on line, all searchable
simultaneously from any one site.  The initial development of the
consortium is funded by Houston Endowment, Inc.  The first phase is just
about complete.

Our Internet consultant is Information Access Institute under the direction
of Kevin Marsh a former NASA archivist who put the shuttle images on line.
 He and I did a full day workshop at AASLH in Sacramento and can probably
repeat that presentation in Santa Fe if you are interested.

Let us know.

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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas  77515
(409) 864-1208
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From:   Matt Mayberry[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 06, 1999 7:15 AM
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Subject:        Web Databases

        I am looking for museums preferably in the Mountain-Plains
Region who have published or are contemplating publishing their
collections databases on the World Wide Web.  I'm trying to put together
a session for the Mountain-Plains Museum Association Annual Meeting in
Santa Fe, NM, October 14-17, 1999 on the internal debate that an
institution goes through in preparation for this project, i.e. what data
do you present, how much information do you give out, how clean should
the records be, etc.?  Deadline for session proposals is January 15th.
Anyone interested in participating?  A prompt reply would be most
appreciated.  Please reply to:
        Dave Ryan
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