Virtual Library museums pages

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Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
URLmuseums.fandom.com
Launched1994
Current statusHosted by MuseumsWiki

The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.[1][2][3]

History

The VLmp online directory resource was founded by

Wikia) as a historical record.[10]

The directory was developed and organised in a distributed manner by country, with around twenty people in different countries maintaining various sections. Canada, through the

MDA maintained the United Kingdom section of museums,[12] later the Collections Trust.[13] The Historisches Centrum Hagen has maintained and hosted pages for Germany.[14]
Other countries actively participating included Romania.[15] In total, around 20 countries were involved.[7]

The directory was influential in the museum field during the 1990s and 2000s.[16][17] It was used as a standard starting point to find museums online.[18] It was useful for monitoring the growth of museums internationally online.[19] It was also used for online museum surveys.[20][21] It was recommended as an educational resource[22][23] and included a search facility.[24]

Virtual Museum of Computing

The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC), part of the Virtual Library museums pages, was created as a

Wikia).[32]

VMoC was reviewed by Discovery Channel, Lycos, Anbar Electronic Intelligence, Bookmark Central, Planet Science, RedOrbit, and Science NetLinks during the 1990s.[33] It has also been referenced in books[34][35] and papers.[36][37][38] VMoC has provided computing history event reports.[39]

See also

References

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  9. ^ "The WWW Virtual Library: About the Virtual Library". The WWW Virtual Library. February 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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  13. ^ "Museums around the UK on the Web". Collections Trust. 2010. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  14. ^ "Online Activities". Germany: Historisches Centrum Hagen. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
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  19. ^ Veltman, Kim H. (2001). "Developments in Virtual Museums". In Valentino, P.; Mossetto, G. (eds.). Museo contro museo. Le strategie, gli strumenti, i risultati [La crescita nel settore dei musei virtuali] (PDF) (in Italian). Giunti, Firenze.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  35. ^ Максимова, Т. Е. "Виртуальные музеи: анализ понятия" [Virtual museums: analysis of the concept]. cyberleninka.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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  39. ^ Kita, Chigusa (ed.). "Events and Sightings Web Extras". history.computer.org. IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 28 July 2022.

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