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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.
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 Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, went live in July 2008. The first deployment has been to mount interactive versions of the complex Intersections and Fowler in Focus exhibitions, which consist of permanent and rotating components. Additional collections will be added in the next few months.
In 2009, UCLA's NAGPRA database was added to this MWeb site, protected by password.
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The Michener site presents a portion of the collection of the two Michener museums in Pennsylvania, emphasizing the art of Bucks County.
The site uses most of MWeb's search types: Keyword, Advanced, Browse, Click-&-Search, and Vocabulary Views (see MWeb Enterprise Features for descriptions). The Favorites feature is also installed.
One of the unusual features of the site is that the buttons are text (that is, generated by MWeb) but with graphical backgrounds, leading to an interesting gradient effect. Using text buttons saves having to hire a designer to create them.
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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.
MWeb is highly customized to meet LACMA's ambitious goals. Some of the interesting features are:
This will be another MySQL site. Coming in 2010.
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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.
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 supports simultaneous searching of four 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:
Here is a partial list of other MWeb Universal installations. These sites are either for private data, or are in the process of development, so we cannot provide links to them. Other sites cannot be listed at all. We will update this list as sites become public.
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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The Antelope Valley Indian Museum, a California State Park with a unique collection of artifacts from southwest peoples and elsewhere, made its entire collection of over 8,000 objects, all with images, available using MWeb from 2003 through 2010.
AVIM had 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 Census, developed for the J. Paul Getty Trust, ran on MWeb from 1998 through 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 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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