The Paris Pages Experience
30 months, and 100 million accesses later
Norman Barth* - Les Pages de Paris / The Paris Pages
nbarth@paris.org |
http://www.paris.org/
Most, if not all, of the issues raised by the Paris Pages Experience will be of interest to Museum Webmasters, and others involved with electronic archives of any size.
The Paris Pages was the first web site dedicated to the City of Paris. This included the first online pages about the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou, and other museums, and monuments in the City. It has been celebrated in the international press since 1994.
Over the last 30 months, it has grown to 8000+ pages, and 3000+ images, with roughly 6 million accesses per month. With this growth, it has been confronted by issues of fundamental importance to the activity of putting large amounts of diverse data online. Many of these are similar to those found in working with databases, but there are differences unique to web paradigm. In this paper, we attempt to give a description of three of these fundamental issues. This includes questions of data classification, presentation, and association of diverse data types. The Paris Pages is thus a metaphor for general problems that many large content rich web sites will encounter. After identifying these issues, we mention our current approaches toward mitigating them. In a final section there is a disucssion.
- Title Page & Abstract
- Introduction - Overview of the Paris Pages web site
- Fundamental Issues
- Web Site / Database Differences
- Classifying Data
- Hypertext
- Associating Data Types
- Approaches Toward A Solution
- Discussion
- Short biography of the author
*Norman Barth - Director; Les Pages de Paris / The Paris Pages
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