Conference paper
THE VISION OF THE MDC WEB SITE http://www.mdc.hr/: FROM MUSEUMS AND FOR MUSEUMS
Lada Dražin-Trbuljak
; Muzejski dokumentacijski centar, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Nine years after the creation of the first website in 1996, the Museum Documentation Centre has initiated the MDC website redesign collaborative project. The possibilities which technology offers changed drastically through the years. Once modern and advanced web pages become out of date, ponderous and difÞ cult to maintain. The need for an improvement of quality of service
to the museums and wider public was recognised. It started with evaluating existing web pages as well as searching and conceiving completely new content based on dinamic web pages, up-to-date
news supplied directly by MDC’s staff or museums themselves.
On-line Register of Museums, Galleries and Collections in Croatia offers dates on the museums, collections, professional museum staff; on line calendar of events MDC POOL provides information on current and upcoming exhibitions, conferences, publications; web opac catalogue of museum and gallery publications – that is only
a part of the online data bases offered. Gathered in one place, they will reveal MDC’s activities dealing with collecting, preserving, analysing and disseminating information about Croatian museums. With new MDC website our purpose is to promote openness, to give accurate and fresh information, to allow quick and easy access to MDC resources and to recognise our users’ expectations and needs.
This paper decribes MDC website redesign project, its changes, the problems involved in creating, the current state as well as plans for further development.
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Hrčak ID:
77523
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Publication date:
1.6.2007.
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