The following is from an email from Giovanna Peebles, Vermont State Archeologist:We’re excited to announce that the prototype Vermont Archeology Virtual Museum, funded with a Digital Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is launched, warts and all! Play with it, kick the tires, have fun with it, hopefully you’ll register to experience it’s full functionality. Please complete the Survey Monkey at some point!
Go to: http://emergentmediacenter.com/vtarch/ Bookmark this!
The web museum site will serve as Vermont’s archeology portal. Of course it’s only a prototype, developed over 4 months this summer, so there’s only a few exhibits thus far but enough to give you the lay of the land. There’s also slow loading, funny spacing, too much on exhibit’s main page, just a few photos, etc… A WORK IN PROGRESS!
There are 3 types of visitors:
1) Visitors who don’t register and just poke around for information and to see what’s happening
2) Visitors who register - - they will have the full functionality of the social-networking features, are part of the museum community, can contribute comments, articles, links, save favorites, etc.
3) “Curators,” who will register as such - - this group includes mainly archeology professionals working in VT who will populate the web site with “exhibits” as they discover sites, write reports, etc. as well as special guest curators, for example, Abenakis and other Indigenous community members, perhaps historians, geologists, avocational archeologists, and others as appropriate.
We are very excited about this initiative and look forward to your feed-back. Many thanks!!
Go to: http://emergentmediacenter.com/vtarch/ Bookmark this!
The web museum site will serve as Vermont’s archeology portal. Of course it’s only a prototype, developed over 4 months this summer, so there’s only a few exhibits thus far but enough to give you the lay of the land. There’s also slow loading, funny spacing, too much on exhibit’s main page, just a few photos, etc… A WORK IN PROGRESS!
There are 3 types of visitors:
1) Visitors who don’t register and just poke around for information and to see what’s happening
2) Visitors who register - - they will have the full functionality of the social-networking features, are part of the museum community, can contribute comments, articles, links, save favorites, etc.
3) “Curators,” who will register as such - - this group includes mainly archeology professionals working in VT who will populate the web site with “exhibits” as they discover sites, write reports, etc. as well as special guest curators, for example, Abenakis and other Indigenous community members, perhaps historians, geologists, avocational archeologists, and others as appropriate.
We are very excited about this initiative and look forward to your feed-back. Many thanks!!
Please distribute to other who may enjoy seeing this, testing it, and starting to take advantage of the resources it offers
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