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MWeb Universal 1.0 released (June 2007)

MWeb Universal 1.0 is now available! This is a limited release that supports only PastPerfect-Online databases on the PastPerfect server. The first installation is Search Baltimore, which provides simultaneous searching of three museum databases:

• Baltimore Museum of Industry
• Johns Hopkins Campus Collection
• Jewish Museum of Maryland

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LACMA uses XML to layout Online Exhibits (June 2007)

Following on the success of using XML to design browse pages (see announcement below for November 2006), we developed a template for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to specify the layout of Online Exhibits using Excel to modify an XML template. The museum can specify the content, size, color scheme, and other features of each Online Exhibit separately. This allows the museum to change the design of each Online Exhibit without requesting custom programming.

Fowler Museum at UCLA adopts MWeb Enterprise (May 2007)

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has chosen MWeb Enterprise for its collections online system. The first project will be an interactive version of the complex Intersections exhibition, which consists of permanent and rotating components.

LACMA uses XML to design browse pages (November 2006)

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art combines MWeb's Hierarchy Search with non-MWeb content to provide each department with a mini-homepage consisting of clickable searches, links to other content, and text. These departmental pages are now maintained by the museum using simple Excel spreadsheets saved as XML; MWeb creates the displays from the XML. The museum gains the flexibility to make immediate changes as departmental requirements change, and will save thousands of dollars per year in programming fees.

Autry reaches 300,000 records (November 2006)

The Autry National Center recently passed the 300,000-record mark in its MWeb Enterprise database. Two other installations, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Census of Art & Architecture Known to the Renaissance, topped the quarter-million-record mark.

One million searches per year (October 2006)

One of our larger installations, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is now providing one million searches per year -- that's searches, not pages! (MWeb Enterprise records every search and provides monthly and annual statistics.)

MWeb pays for itself (October 2006)

The Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center has seen a large increase in image licensing since they began using PastPerfect-Online, Powered by MWeb. The image licensing more than pays for their costs of going online. Complete story.

MWeb Security Model (July 2006)

We have recently completed work on a sophisticated security model, offering up to nine levels of user permissions. In addition, restrictions can be set based on the IP address (physical location) of the user. Any of these restrictions can be assigned to entire records, to categories of data, to specific values in records, to images, or even to the thumbnail and large image separately.