Museum of Jewish Heritage/Holocaust Memorial Museum and Education Center, 1981-1990 and undated

TIES (The Interactive Encyclopedia System) was funded by the U. S. Department of the Interior beginning in 1984 as part of the development of a system that would educate users about the Holocaust and related topics for the proposed United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The concept was that historians, educators, museum curators, and the general public would be able to traverse the articles within TIES relating to the people, places, events, organizations, and issues of the Holocaust.

The end result was a finished database on Austria and the Holocaust that Shneiderman helped design for the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The database allowed users to browse the text of approximately 500 articles and formed the groundwork for the system that was later installed in the museum's Holocaust Learning Center. Work on this project led to commercial licensing of the product by the Cognetics Corporation in 1986. A subsequent project with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York led to expansion of the original concept to include updated interfaces for databases already in existence in Beth Hatefutsoth (Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv, Israel. By 1992, this new version of the Interactive Encyclopedia of Jewish Heritage was slated to include 2,500 browsable articles, 10,000 illustrations, and three hours of video. The project was never implemented at the museum.

Series IV consists of contract agreements, research notes, correspondence, press clippings, and other documentation relating to Shneiderman's participation in these projects.

The arrangement is chronological.