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Web Driven Information System Of Nigerian Museums
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1.5 PURPOSE OF STUDY
The purpose of this study is to thoroughly check the viability of the idea of the digital museum. And to see to what extent that a physical museum can be represented by a digital museum which is accessible online
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The internet and the World Wide Web have brought huge advances in how the world interconnects with one another. This digital museum is going to help us in our interactions with each other and one another. People from distant countries will be able to visit the digital museum to learn more about Nigeria.
1.7 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
This project has the following objectives
1. To make artefacts of cultural and colonial history available to all thorough the internet and world wide web as a medium
2. To increase historical and cultural awareness in the general populace.
3. To make remote and distant museum contents accessible to all.
4. To reduce the cost of preservation of historical heritage by adopting online archiving and story of historical detail
1.8 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This work is limited to the concept of the digital museums of Nigeria as it related to the general colonial history of Nigeria. The digital museum is not of the specialist kind like the war museum. Its scope is Nigerian history particularly its colonial history. It does not cover every city in Nigeria it is limited to the a few major cities like Lagos and Enugu.
1.9 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
This research work was faced with a lot of difficulties. Time constraint was one of the limiting factors in carrying out this study.
Financial constraint also constituted in carrying out an in depth study of this project. Limitations to the extent in which data could be collected also constituted a problem. Irregularities in power supply also dealt harshly with the researcher. Collection of photographs from the archives was particularly difficult as seeing the chief archivist in the museums visited was almost close to impossible. This resulted to huge dependence on internet images which is notoriously known to be doctored and unreliable.
In spite of the above mentioned difficulties, some data was collected which will be analysed later.
1.10 ASSUMPTION OF THE STUDY
While researching on this work, i came up with a couple of assumptions which include:
1. I would be able to finish this work before deadline
2. In the long run, this research work would be accessed globally.
1.11 DEFINITION OF TERMS/ VARIABLE
DHTML – Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up Language. it is a combination of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and Macromedia Flash Mx used to create animated and interactive websites.
HTML – Hypertext Mark-up Language is a client-side scripting language for Website design.
PHP – (Archaic: Personal Home page) Hypertext Preprocessor. These languages work closely with the Web server to interpret the requests made from the World Wide Web, process these requests, interact with other programs on the server to fulfil the requests, and then indicate to the Web server exactly what to serve to the client’s browser.
SQL – Structured Query Language, basically used in querying the databases to retrieve, updates, and review database
CSS – Cascading Style Sheet. A client-side scripting language, used in styling the webpages for a greater user-experience.
ASP – Active Server Pages. A server-side scripting language like the PHP. These languages work closely with the Web server to interpret the requests made from the World Wide Web, process these requests, interact with other programs on the server to fulfil the requests, and then indicate to the Web server exactly what to serve to the client’s browser.
SERVER – A specific application, called a Web server, will be responsible for communicating with the browser.
PHOTOSHOP – Graphics applications
WEBSITE – A website is a collection of information about a particular topic or subject
APACHE – A server technology, designed to assist the webmaster in utilizing database and Server technology.
UNIX- an operating system
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