Museumserver
Continua l’appuntamento con l’evoluzione in Rete delle istituzioni culturali. Per leggere le altre puntate visitate la categoria “Storia Evolutiva”.
Il 31 gennaio 1994 annuncia l’entrata in Internet anche il Dallas Museum of Art, presentando una serie di servizi ai visitatori online:
Visitors to our ‘online Museum’ have access to general DMA information, such as exhibition and event schedules, gallery guides, and educational documents relating to the Museum and its Permanent Collection. You can also pick up a copy of a new DMA electronic newsletter, ‘CI,’ which details the activities and services of the Museum’s new Collections Information Center. A selection of digital images from the Museum’s Permanent Collection is also available in GIF format. Each image file includes not only a picture of an artwork, but also a full text identification label and in many cases extended remarks about the piece written by our Curatorial staff. Visitors are welcome to download these images for their personal, educational use (Kevin J. Comerford, 1994)
Nel febbraio dello stesso anno il National Museum of American Art amplia i proprio contenuti in Rete consentendo di leggere libri o scaricarseli gratuitamente per la stampa. Una curiosità deriva dal tempo di download che occorreva per scaricarsi immagini digitali:
Note that currently the images must be downloaded from the system to one’s computer, a process that takes from eight to twenty minutes per image (Joan Stahl, 1994)
1995-1996 Si aggiungono, tra i tanti, tre musei di Chicago (The Field Museum, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute Museum), in Francia il Pompidou Center, Museums and Galleries of Southern Utah University, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, National Museums of Scotland, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
Il 31 dicembre 1995 nasce De Museumserver, una piattaforma in Internet per i musei olandesi e, restando sempre in Europa, investe nello sviluppo della Rete anche l’Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow) con un progetto diviso in tre fasi, in collaborazione con gli studenti.
What started out as an idea discussed over a beer (or two) between myself and my colleague Chris Johnson from Computing Science, has developed into what we consider to be a worthy framework from which to expand into new areas of heritage presentation over the network. The first phase involved a group of third year honours students examining ways of solving navigation and design problems related to the presentation of museum artefacts on the web. Stage two had one of our IT Masters candidates looking at the problem of download time for video over the web. Both these phases are now complete. The students concerned all received high ratings for their reports.(Jim Devine, 1995)
In questi anni si diffondono anche le prime survey (soprattutto all’interno dei musei scientifici) ed i primi corsi e seminari riguardanti l’utilizzo del web da parte dei musei. Inoltre, in molti post, c’è la volontà di sapere quali sono gli indirizzi di alcuni musei e da qui la necessità di tenere sempre aggiornate diverse liste con gli indirizzi web di musei o di risorse utili:
Here is the list of Web sites which can be helpful for anyone interested […] The Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) […], Museum Online Resource Review […],The WWW Virtual Library […],WWW Virtual Library museums pages. (Tatyana Dumova, 1996)
Does anybody know where to find the web site addresses of the world’s famous museums like, Louvre, musee d’Orsay, Victoria and Albert Museums and Uffizi Gallery and other museums in Europe? Need urgent help. Please e-mail me if you know. Tks (anonimo, 1996)
There are roughly 300 *science* *museums* on the www now. According to my observations, the number of science museums on the www has doubled about every two months. (Arthur Anderson, 1996)
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