Smart Web Exhibits

Carnegie Mellon University has received a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to develop "Smart Web Exhibits" designed to deliver information online, on target and on time to a diverse user community. Smart Web Exhibits (SWE) will enable Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon to mitigate problems caused by physical space constraints and provide more effective outreach to the public. Two SWE, based on signature collections in Carnegie Mellon University Archives and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, will be developed with the grant. The library SWE will enable users to search photographs, correspondence, lecture notes, and published and unpublished papers of two early innovators in computer science: Herbert Simon and Allen Newell. The museum SWE will focus on text and images documenting the discovery of dinosaurs currently housed in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The SWE will be available on kiosks physically located in the library and the museum, and on the Internet.

• Mind Models: Artifical Intelligence Discovery At Carnegie Mellon
  Carnegie Mellon's first-completed "Smart Web Exhibit" showcases the collaboration of Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell.

• Diplodocus and Douglass Archives
  Fully-searchable full-text access to field notes, correspondence, photographs, published popular and scientific articles dealing with The Carnegie Museum of Natural History's early paleontological discoveries, especially that of Diplodocus carnegii. This digital archive is a ground-breaking collaboration produced by Carnegie Mellon University and The Carnegie Museum under a recent IMLS Grant for "Smart Web Exhibits."

• Mind Models Exhibit -- User Studies
  Information analyst Carole A. George describes and reports usability studies of the "Mind Models" exhibit, conducted in October 2001. User feedback contributes to refining and enhancing the site.

• Smart Web Exhibit: Delivering Enhanced Library and Museum Collections Online, On Target, and On Time
  Gabrielle V. Michalek presented a project briefing to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2001 Task Force Meeting, November 29, 2001. The talk reports the goals and challenges of the IMLS project, and discusses results and what has been learned.

• Callery, Bernadette G. and Robert Thibadeau. On Beyond Label Copy: Museum-Web Collaboration in the Development of a Smart Web Exhibit. Paper presented at the "Museums and the Web" conference, April 16-19, 2000, Minneapolis, MN.

• IMLS Grant/Smart Web Exhibits
  Abstract. Narrative. People

Maintained by: Angel Morris

Last updated: December 4, 2003