Some will hop, some will skip and some will jump. Others will crawl. Interactivity Norwegian children at play. Tom March, a Web designer and educator in New South Wales, formerly an instructor at San Diego State, has created a promising example of how visitors may interact with a collection, rearranging the elements, adding their own comments and making their own version of a mini museum. While most museums are reluctant to share their full collections in either the marble museum or the online version of the museum for one reason or another, the online museum of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums proudly announces that it makes available 70,000 images from its collection for online enjoyment.
Visitors have enormous choices.
They can go to the search part of the imagebase and enter words and concepts that create mini collections. A collection of 977 thumbnails is swiftly available. The museum's single painting is a mouseclick away. And the visitor may choose to ZOOM in on the painting to see details more clearly. Indeed, they do.