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This site combines collections and library catalogs of two merged museums. Currently there are about 110,000 records for museum objects, 54,000 library records, 88,000 images, and 66,000 terms and concepts -- over 350,000 records. Some of the terms are organized into a hierarchy which can be searched simply by clicking. Many museum objects are in study collections and are partially or completely hidden from the public by MWeb's security features. Try it!
The Autry's extensive controlled vocabularies are used for object types, creators, and subjects, so in addition to standardizing terms, they also provide a dense network of links between records. Users can click around the database with minimal typing.
The Autry has been the development site for several advanced features of MWeb:
After the initial deployment, the library and museum collections of a second museum were added to the site with NO programming changes!
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The Antelope Valley Indian Museum, a California State Park with a unique collection of artifacts from southwest peoples and elsewhere, went live in January 2003. The site displays the entire collection of over 8,000 objects, all of which have images. Try it!
AVIM has a Highlights section with discussion of important concepts and illustrative objects. This is one of the ways that MWeb can link rich content into the database.
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The LACMA site went live in April, 2001. Currently there are about 70,000 artwork records, 46,000 with images, plus records for artists, publications, and other data, for a total of around 200,000 records. This site is now serving one million searches per year. Try it!
MWeb is highly customized to meet LACMA's ambitious goals. Some of the interesting features are:
Coming in 2008!
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The Pacific Asia Museum went live in August, 2002. At present it displays about 3,500 art object, 4,500 images, 100 documents, and a hierarchy of featured collections. More will be added over time. Try it!
PAM is the first MWeb site to include media. For example, you can listen to a recording of temple bells while studying the data and images for them.
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The MWeb Universal demonstration site shows some future features that are currently in development. It allows simultaneous searching of three databases of different formats on different servers:
MWeb Universal comes with a selection of layouts and displays, which can be customized so your site can look as glamorous as you wish to make it.
For more information, see the Slideshow.
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Search Baltimore was the first installation of MWeb Universal. It provides simultaneous searching of three museum databases:
MWeb is the software used to provide PastPerfect-Online: web catalogs for PastPerfect sites. These use a special version of MWeb which can be modified by the individual museum to change layout, color scheme, fonts, and messages, and to select some optional features. (This version is sold and supported by PastPerfect Software, Inc.) These sites are hosted by PastPerfect, so the museum need not acquire nor manage a web server.
New sites are added weekly. You may try them from this complete list of PastPerfect-Online sites.
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MWeb Live is not a product, but is a way to deliver custom solutions that include the need to update a live database (a database used for real-time updating). This means any changes to the database are available online immediately.
In addition to the sites below, we bet our company on MWeb Live by using it for our accounting system, our knowledge base, our project tracking, our bug tracking, and our product registration. For business reasons, these cannot be shown here.
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The Aviation History Archive uses MWeb Live™ to gather personal histories of people who worked in the aerospace industry in Downey, California. Visitors to the site can upload their personal stories and pictures, which are then indexed and added to the database by MWeb Live after approval. MWeb Live provides a module for the system administrator to review and edit uploads before they are moved to the live database. Try it!
MWeb Live includes most of MWeb's search and display features. For this client, stories relating to the four largest employers can be searched by a single click. In addition, there is a feature to display the last 100 stories entered.
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Theodore Front Musical Literature supplies sheet music, recordings, and books to libraries and other customers. Library customers want to download records for the material they have on order to add to their catalogs. Our MWeb software lets them do so, converting the data from a SQL Server database into library standard MARC records, using our MARConvert™ product for the conversion. Records are converted on demand as they are requested.
We do not show a link to this site as it does nothing without a customer logon.
These sites are no longer available.
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The Census, developed for the J. Paul Getty Trust, ran on MWeb from June 1998 through June 2000 (no longer available because of database-licensing restrictions).
This MWeb site had numerous special features, demonstrating the flexibility of MWeb in creating exactly the look you want. For example, the third, fourth, and fifth menu button shown in this image brought up a precision searching tool for scholars. This picture also shows how multiple image windows were displayed before the Image Viewer was developed.
The Census consists of 250,000 records of ancient monuments, renaissance writings and drawings related to the monuments, conservation records, authority files, and other data, plus about 8000 images.
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A special photography collection illustrating the history of New Orleans neighborhoods ran on MWeb from January 1998 through 2000.
This MWeb project was converted from a multi-media exhibit, and comprises "tours" of neighborhoods and other aspects of New Orleans. The menu buttons and other graphics were supplied by the museum to match the rest of their site.
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