useophile discussion forums - aggregation of over 60 museum-related mailing lists and other news feeds
Prof Jonathan Bowen
http://forums.museophile.net/ . As well as local forums, over sixty external
news feeds are accessible via the website to registered users, ranging from
museum-related mailing lists, newsgroups and general news sources customised
to search for articles relevant to museum professionals and other
"museophiles" with cultural interests. If you are reading this on a museum
or cultural mailing list and the list is archived on-line, then you can also
access this list and its archives (along with many others) via the
Museophile discussion forums website.
To use the website, please visit http://forums.museophile.net/ . If you
would like to see a sample of external newsfeeds without registering, please
log on using username "guest" with password "guest" (all lower case). Please
do not change the password so others can use this facility too. You are
welcome to register with your own username of course if you find the
facility useful so you can select your own news feeds on a customised
homepage whenever you visit the website. You are also welcome to post
messages to the local forums, which is possible even without registration.
If anyone would like a new forum adding to the site for their own
museum-related use, please feel free to contact me on
jpb...@museophile.org.uk .
The website gained an honourable mention in the recent MW2003 Museums and
the Web conference Best of the Web competition Best Museum Professional's
Site section, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 20-22 March 2003. The
site was developed as part of a BASS/HEROBAC Business Award & Support Scheme
project at London South Bank University, UK.
See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/best/win_professional.html
Prof. Jonathan Bowen in FEST/CISM at London South Bank University provided
most of the content and Mike Houghton, a Research Fellow on the project,
installed and developed the underlying web technology. A paper on museum
discussion forums in general and the Museophile discussion forums in
particular entitled "Online Museum Discussion Forums: What do we have? What
do we need?" was presented at the MW2003 conference.
See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/bowen/bowen.html
Feedback on the website is welcome. Results from a survey on museum-related
discussion forums conducted through this website will be available in due
course.
Happy web surfing!
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Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Professor of Computing
London South Bank University, CISM, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK
Email: jonatha...@sbu.ac.uk URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~bowenjp/
Museophile Limited: http://www.museophile.com/
Personal URL: http://www.jpbowen.com/