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As Brian Kelly has noted on his blog post about alternatives, January 6, 2012 is the last day Twapperkeeper will be online and freely available. Since there were Twapperkeeper archives set up for both the #museweb and #mw2011 hashtags, I've grabbed the stats for 'posterity'.

23rd International Sculpture Conference: Process, Patron and Public

The International Sculpture Center (ISC), is seeking papers for the 23rd International Sculpture Conference: Process, Patron and Public, in Chicago, IL from October 4-6, 2012. This two-track conference will feature 3 keynote speakers and 14 panels.

Panel topics will include:

We would like to share with you one of our main participative projects this year: Global Screen. It consists of a physical exhibition that will take place at the CCCB from January to May 2012. And it is also a virtual platform (http://pantallaglobal.cccb.org/en_GB) that we launched last October to build the exhibition with the audience creativity.

The University of Virginia Art Museum has recently produced an iPad app that showcases several sculptures from its collection. Each sculpture is presented as a "360" that the user can spin, zoom, and pan to inspect. You can see a short video about the app here: http://www.arqball.com/uvam

For those of you researching the state of mobile in museums for MW2012, CHIN has saved you the trouble of finding out what is happening in the Canadian scene by compiling a list of available apps ~ http://bit.ly/rs3zr6 (en français : http://bit.ly/qXbCVf). Best ~ Dave

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

We are thrilled by the response to the MW2012 call for proposals, but there is still time to submit yours before midnight tonight PST.

Log in, or create a new account if you are not yet a member of the Museums and the Web community, and submit your proposal at:

When we held the first Museums and the Web in 1997, none of us were sure how the Web would develop, or what technologies would be most interesting to museums in the future. We certainly didn't anticipate the close community that would develop around the conference, sustaining itself in various ways online between annual get-togethers. Your knowledge and generosity is unique and amazing; it has made Museums and the Web the international conference for culture and heritage online.

But after fifteen years, it's time for us to step back from the day-to-day management of Museums and the Web. We both recognize the importance of MW to the community, and care deeply about the persistence of its legacy (including the online archive of papers going back to 1997). So it's taken some time to work out our next steps.

I couldn’t help but write about my MW2011 experience for my favourite international museum publication, Мир музея (World of Museum - www.mirmus.ru). PDF and translation attached. My dear colleague and co-author could not join us in PA, but she got the play-by-play online. « Cпасибо » to those who graciously lent photos.

Mobile was really alive on #m2011 !

I've just blogged on our museums' blog, highlighting two of the many interesting mobile events: Nancy Proctor 's workshop on Mobile Strategy and the Crit Mobile Room.

A deep focus on content. My ideas are here:

http://www.joshrobinson.org/post/4607360173/focuso...

State-of-the-art: Museums use social media mostly for marketing reasons and PR. In many institutions social media (social networks, sharing platforms, blogs, wikis etc.) is treated as an information tool, not as a dialogue oriented and participatory media tool.

I'm waiting for the train back to Connecticut after an information-packed meeting.  I've attended many a history conference (and since I'm a historian of medicine, a few medical conferences as well) but this is my first time at Museums and the Web, or at a museums conference of any sort.  I teach a digital history course for our M.A.

The organizations at the table were at various stages of digitizing collections and were all eager to discuss best practice, process, visitor contributions, and more. Questions and topics that emerged were:

Crowdsourcing & UGC mobile tools

What is crowdsourcing? Can we identify the specific CS task first and build tools around that?

Def: crowd sourcing

Correction and transcription

Contexualization

Complimenting a collection

Classification

Culturalization

Funding