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Defining Horizons for Digital Museum and Archive Projects

How National is National?

Gordon Cook, Editor & PublisherThe COOK Report on Internet Protocol,

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Economic Development Implications

Does a project like Taiwan’s National Archives open that country to a Google like virtual environment? Should it do so? Where do you stop? With Geographic Data should you also overlay demographic and economic data?Do you make the web into a global development shopping mall?Will other nations be compelled to follow?Is this an engine that will drive Info. Tech?

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An American start-up asks new questions

Who is involved and can contribute to a digital library or museum?What kind of communication should an archive or museum facilitate? What kind of design for presentation?What assumptions do we make about end user technology and displays?

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Who can contribute?

Do you invite the public to use the basic framework?

Do you encourage schools to have students collect and submit specimens or weather or other data

Do you encourage the submission of photography?

Can you broaden use without falling into chaos?

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What is the direction of information flow?

Do the scholars put everything on display?Or is there to be as mechanism to encourage public participation?Do you make metadata searchable by everyone including across disciplines?Do you encourage contributors of content to form their own communities of interest?

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What Design Standards to use?

Do you emulate the presentation of art in an art museum?

How much care do you give to aesthetics of web pages?

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What hardware will be used?

Display devices? What will be the size and quality of screens?

Do you plan for some users who will want high quality art on high definition displays?

Multi media and speech recognitionIncorporated into the displays?

Separate devices on their own?

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Client server models to be built?

Or will devices be passive - one wayVisualArts Systems has very interesting Client Server model

Enable community forming, info sharing and commerce

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Commerce?

Do you seek to enable it?For whom?

How do you handle delivery of images?• Can any of this be turned into sustainable business?

• Should service add-ons be encouraged?

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Training

Do you establish and publish standards for digitization

Recording of samples

Recording of metadata?