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Targeting to convey reliable and adequate information from academic sources to nonacademic community, a fast growing low-cost e-museum project has been executed. Our effort to seeking solution to solution to some of the problems, e.g., on selecting development model, on deciding to structural architecture and on maintenance of the web site and museum itself provide some real-life experience that could be taken as a reference to develop similar applications for both academic and non-academic purposes for even presenting site-specific artifacts or products in developing countries. Visiting statistic pointed out that number of visitor is reciprocal to display technologies. The more static the exhibition environment is, the less attractive it becomes. Web applications are the recent technology that can be adapted to conventional museum and convey vast amount of the information to the visitors and help them to digest it much effectively. A prototype web application, which uses QR code to access predefined web sites, has been developed and tested in our museum. Both animation and web based additional information from well-established web sites are used wherever possible to improve the technicality and attractiveness of the displays. Overall test results indicate that the application is successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conventional education in applied science relies on both theoretical studies and hands-on-experiments while virtual education conveys theoretical information via enhanced visual aid. Visual information can be provided via dynamic web sites broadcasting from both existing laboratories and visual tours of imaginary collections. An example for the fast growing e-museum projects has been proposed and the data warehouse model has been recommended to save the information in the presented example. The linking model is employed for the presentation of objects. The model is able to use an auditing classification between content finding and data fields. The free-of-charge web application has been used to track the visitor activities. Although, both proposed project and its model have been used for creating an e-museum, it can easily be adopted to any learning environment which provides visual educational support to any science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]