The interactive map is the centerpiece of the museum site's new Visual Index to the Virtual Archive, or VIVA.
Carol Willis, the museum's founding director, said the virtual archive would eventually provide online access to digital reproductions of the 5,000 artifacts in the museum's collection.
In addition, Mr. Herring said, the symphony will apply part of the gift to the development of a virtual archive of lessons, master classes, panel discussions, lectures and performances.
"It is a three-dimensional manifestation of a Web museum, a virtual archive," says Mr. Kinmonth, who with Mr. Monfreda created the 45-year retrospective at the Ara Pacis museum in Rome in 2007.
The place is now a virtual archive, and Marty's old room is a minishrine to his accomplishments, with lots of Stanley Cup photos and pictures of Marty at the Olympics.
Last month, in what is believed to be the largest donation online of "free" photographs — that is, unrestricted for commercial or noncommercial use — the German national archive uploaded nearly 100,000 historical photographs to the Wikimedia Commons, the virtual archive for material used in Wikipedia articles.
This year's anniversary is also being marked with a pop-up Mini Museum designed for children on London's South Bank over the August bank holiday weekend, featuring hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from the past 45 years, and the launch of a virtual archive for fans to upload images of their own memorabilia.
The collection is a virtual archive of medieval documents, for which there are transcriptions in either Latin or archaic Portuguese.
We present here the concept of a virtual archive, spatially referenced over a simplified 3D brain map and accessible over the Internet.
