In the session, there was little discussion of specific fee structure, however, there was a general agreement that fees must be simple to monitor and minimal enough to be affordable to universities. Thirty-seven interested museums will be meeting in June to consider various factors before official formation. Other interested museums are encouraged to consider taking part in the effort. Charles R. McClure, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University. Minimally, the networked environment includes information services, products, hardware and software, telecommunications infrastructure, and resources that users and providers of the network receive via the various electronic networks.
Technological advances create an extremely fluid and rapidly changing networked environment.
Assessment techniques, however, related to network use by specific audiences such as government officials, teachers, business persons, researchers, students, librarians, etc., are just in the development process. Mr. McClure concluded that due to the lack of practical guidance offered to assess the impact of networking initiatives, techniques such as scripted user assessments, web log analysis, and web mapping, among others, need to be developed and tested in addition to traditional techniques such as focus groups, surveys and policy analysis. The State of the Art with Moving Images. Evolving description and cataloging standards, interoperability between different standards and increased sharing of information are creating the groundwork for unified online catalogs. Advances in compression and in high-performance networks will enable individuals to actually view movies online.