The hypermedia format is particularly useful for presentation of museum data where information about a topic or artifact is normally presented using multiple media, such as images, text, tables, charts, film, sound tracks, and/or video. The French Ministry of Culture has perhaps the most ambitious museum project. It will contain more than 22.5 million documents (Mannoni 1996, 1997). J. Bowen ma...

William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former president of Princeton University and founding chairman of ITHAKA.1 Over his long career he has enriched academic (and general) community with contributions on topics such as class inequalities in higher education, college sports at all levels, and completion rates in higher education. He also gave a very valuable...