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hold its promise? In what way can we really see a move away from the database
model in presenting museum collections online?
As one can see on Figure 3 below, visitors can find a search engine if they want
to search for a specific object.
Figure 2 Searching the Making the Modern World website 52
More importantly, though, users can work their way through a timeline, subject
groups, guided tours or learning modules, as illustrated in Figure 4. Guided
Tours, for instance, “offers the chance to follow stories and paths linked across
time. For example, they trace the part played by women in science and
technology and the role of specific technologies as tools for the employment and
integration of successive immigrant communities.” 53
Figure 3 Screenshot of Making the Modern World website 54
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Making the Modern World: http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/search/ (as of
3.11.2007).
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Making the Modern World: http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/guided_tours/ (as of
3.11.2007).
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Making the Modern World: http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/ (as of 3.11.2007).
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