Date sent: 25-JUL-1994 <snip snip> >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. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Craig M. Rosa Home Phone: (718) 834-6894 Email: [log in to unmask] BCM Phone: (718) 735-4432 M.A. student, Performance Studies/Museum Studies, NYU ,^^^^^^^^ Asst. Exhibits Developer, The Brooklyn Children's Museum ,^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^