It is clear from these findings that the now-popular transfer
of museum exhibitions and catalogs online has not
been accompanied by the necessary critical examination of
the extended use that these online resources envisioned. The
transfer of these longstanding modes of presentation to a new
medium requires a critical assessment of the means and the
content necessary to make them meaningful and useful to a
greatly extended audience. This study is but a preliminary
step in that direction. We can, however, identify three key
issues that have arisen from this study that would benefit
from further research: