david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science .... it's got me wondering about what the 'general, intelligent reader' might want to know about museums and the web. 

i'm thinking we need to answer the following questions:

• what is the history of museums on the web?
• what are the basic elements of a museum web site?
  [like opening times, location, program information agrees paulwalk ... what else?]
• why do museums use the web / what are their goals?
  and here nate's [@homebrewer's] Education / Exploration / Community come in.
• are museum collections on the web?
  [which is what andy powell and mike ellis want museums to feature]
• how does a museum site differ from a library site?
• how is museums' use of the web unique?

are there other things? Is approaching this in terms of what people do with museum web sites a useful tack?

thanks for your thoughts... as always.

/jt