unpublished research, publications, and archival materials. Then I planned to produce

an "ethnographic monograph" or comprehensive descriptive report on the Florida

Ethnographic Collection. The monograph would have acted as a research reference for

the Seminole/Miccosukee objects at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The report

would have also contributed information on the Florida Museum's holdings to Jackson's

SNACP project, a multi-institutional database. As I thought more about the issues of

accessibility and the need for inclusion of Native voices, it became clear that the project

would be best realized if it included an interactive, online component that could

simultaneously offer digital collections access, and invite Native input into the object

interpretation process. After I made this decision, I changed the project format from a

research paper to an interactive wiki.

The Organization and Digitization of Records

       Before the Florida Museum Project wiki could be realized, the various sources of

object information needed to be researched, collected, organized, digitized, and

formatted for the web. The Florida Ethnographic Collection includes more than 300

objects, many of which are on exhibit or on loan to other museums. Different sources of

object information could be found by examining an array of separate museum

resources: the Registrar's Microsoft Access collections document, a paper catalog card

and accession card, an object inventory location document, a paper accession file, and

sometimes a paper loan file.

      The objects had various forms of visual documentation. Approximately ten of the

objects had been professionally photographed for publication and had color prints.

Many of the catalog index cards had a small black and white reference photo glued to

the reverse side. Some of the index cards had pencil drawings or tracings of the