MW2006 BoW Nomination: Innovative: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Category: Museums [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums]

Site: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Category: Museums
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums
Institution: Wikipedia
Designer[s]: A community effort (see below)
Category: Innovative
Explanation: This is an online museum directory - the innovation comes in the fact that it is completely interactive and can be updated by anybody. Perhaps amazingly, this results in good up-to-date information in general.

If you think this should be in a different category, than is fine - it is difficult to pin down exactly.



Nominated by:
Jonathan Bowen
Professor of Computing
Institute for Computing Research
London South Bank University
United Kingdom
www: http://www.jpbowen.com


See the Museums and the Web 2006 Best of the Web site http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/best/
for the results anytime after March 24, 2006.


All sites are reviewed by the Best of the Web judges. Nominating a
site multiple times does NOT improve its chances of winning an award.


Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/