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        Museums and the Web 2004
        Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA
        March 31 - April 3, 2004
        http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/


** Announcing the MW2004 Opening Plenary Speaker: **
** Jeffrey Zeldman on Designing with Web Standards **
** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ **

Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known web designers in the world
and the author of numerous articles and two books, notably Designing
With Web Standards (New Riders Press, 2003). He publishes A List
Apart Magazine and is the founder and creative chief of Happy Cog
Studios. In 1998 Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project, a
grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end
the browser wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the
same technologies in their browsers. He'll open MW2004, April 1,
2004, on the topic of Designing with Web Standards.


** Best of the Web 2004: Nominations Close January 31, 2004 **
** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/best/ **

January 31, 2004 is the last day to nominate your favourite site for
the Best of the Web awards. Each year, a group of museum and Web
professionals reviews nominated sites, and recognises the best in web
design in culture and heritage. This is not a popularity contest.
Judges review all sites, and select the best in the categories:
On-line Exhibition,  E-Services Site, Educational Use, Innovative or
Experimental Application,  Museum Professional's Site,  and Research
Site. In addition, the Judges select the Best Overall Museum Web site
for MW2004. The awards will be presented at the conference, April 2,
2004.


** Can't Make It? Get the Book **
http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html

Once again,Selected Papers from Museums and the Web will be published
in printed form, accompanied by a CD-ROM of all papers presented at
the conference. Papers will also be published on the Web. If you
can't make it to the conference, get your copy of the Selected Papers.



We hope to see you @ MW2004.

jennifer and David


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Museums and the Web             Archives & Museum Informatics
Co-Chairs:                      158 Lee Avenue
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant        Toronto, Ontario
http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html        Canada
phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: [log in to unmask]

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