A Whirlwind Tour of Museum Web Sites
The Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an important national asset. A vast organization, it comprises 16 separate museums and 8 research centers with combined collections totaling over 240 million artifacts—150 million in the museums themselves, the rest in associated libraries and archives. Fewer than 2 percent of the collection is on display at any one time. The federal appropriation for the Smithsonian in fiscal year 2001 was $454.9 million [Bley 2001].
The developers of the Smithsonian’s Web site faced a huge challenge. They had to create a way to access a dauntingly huge and diverse collection representing the digitized holdings of multiple component museums with different missions ...
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