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AMOL is a comprehensive Internet site designed to help Australian
Collecting Institutions make information about their collections
available to a world-wide audience. It is also the principal gateway
to the Australian Collections Sector for professionals and volunteers,
community users and researchers.
AMOL is a collaborative project bringing together Australian, State
and Territory Governments and the cultural sector to focus on the
task of increasing access to Australia’s heritage collections
and sharing information. AMOL is an initiative of the Cultural
Ministers Council.
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information about AMOL's structure and history.
Conference papers given by AMOL staff:
"Beyond
museum walls" -- A critical analysis of emerging approaches
to museum web-based education by Kevin Sumption at the Museums
and the Web conference 2001.
Meta-centers:
do they work and what might the future hold. A case study of Australian
Museums On-line by Kevin Sumption, given at the Museums and
the Web conference, 2000.
A recent study showed that from February 1998 to July 1999, AMOL
received over two and a half million hits from 138,380 users, averaging
out at more than 270 unique users a day. As well as individual users
AMOL has also attracted a growing number of significant museum and
gallery collections. But what have been the tangible and quantifiable
benefits of this use and representation?
Inside the Meta
Center: a wonder cabinet, by Sarah Kenderdine, presented at
the Museums and the Web conference, 1999.
The AMOL web had undergone a major redesign in 1999 and this paper
includes discussion of the difficulties of inherited architecture
and the process of morphogenesis. Read another version of Inside the Meta Center.
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