ExFiles: An Online Science Exhibit Community

根据2003年美国国家科学基金会资助的“科学展览发展的最佳实践”会议的经验，科学技术中心协会（ASTC）正在为非正式科学教育从业者创建一个动态在线系统“ExFiles”，用于贡献、使用和指导有关展览数据库的交流。在为期三年的项目中，预计将有至少1000名从业人员使用该网站，该项目将在资助期结束后由ASTC维持。该网站最初包含至少40个展览，代表了各种科学领域、大小和解释和设计策略。该网站的推广得到了几个协会的协助：国家博物馆展览协会、儿童博物馆协会、美国植物园和植物园协会、美国动物园和水族馆协会以及欧洲科学中心和博物馆网络。

Following their experience with the 2003 NSF-funded conference, "Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development," the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) is creating for informal science education practitioners a dynamic online system, "ExFiles," for contributing to, using and conducting communications about a database on exhibitions. At least 1,000 practitioners are expected to use the site over the course of the three-year project, which will be sustained by ASTC after the grant period. The website is being populated initially with a set of at least 40 exhibitions representing a variety of scientific domains, sizes and interpretive and design strategies. Promotion of the site is being assisted by several associations: National Association of Museum Exhibitions, Association of Children's Museums, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the European Network of Science Centres and Museums.