ExFiles: An Online Science Exhibit Community

根据2003年国家科学基金会资助的会议“科学展览发展的最佳做法”的经验，科学技术中心协会（ASTC）正在为非正式科学教育从业人员创建一个动态在线系统“ExFiles”，用于为展览数据库提供信息、使用和进行交流。 预计至少有1 000名从业者将在三年项目期间使用该网站，该项目将在赠款期后由ASTC维持。 该网站最初由至少40个展览组成，代表各种科学领域，规模，解释和设计策略。 该网站的宣传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、美国植物园和树木园协会、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.