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MW2009 Birds of a Feather Breakfast Topics
What's on your mind?
Every Friday morning at Museums and the Web we get together for breakfast to talk about things that are of interest. Birds of a Feather Breakfasts have always been popular (except maybe in New Orleans, where it was hard to get people up early in the morning).
Do you have something you want to talk about? Are there people that you'd like to connect with? Suggest a topic in a comment to this post, and we'll make sure there's a table waiting for your conversation. Don't worry, if you want to add one on-site, there will be a chance to do that too.
BoF breakfasts aren't formal affairs; you can join a table, and leave it too, if something else catches your interest. What's important is that you're engaged, and you meet other people.
So, what do you want to talk about?
How about collaboration- I would be happy to participate in the BOF breakfast via skype, twitter or whatever to discuss ways to collaborate in a synchronous matter in person or not. I am really interested in how we can use this method to engage distant visitors in the ongoing dialogues about museums or museum content. It is also interesting to think about how we can use this method to gather individuals stories that can enhance specific content.
My main interest would be to see how people/museums use metadata today. Either to share content with other museums, to organize the information internally, make the content retrievable/searchable. Do they use standardized metadata (Dublin Core, MPEG-7) or proprietary?. What are the advantages/disadvantages they encountered? What are the requests to future metadata standards? What about the actual format: plain text/ XML/ RDF/ ...? Do they use Semantic Web technologies?
I'd be interested in talking about where control for Web content resides in various museums. Who makes the decisions about what goes on and what it looks like? Do you think the right people control this? Where should it belong? Is there a way to shift control? What other controls exist? (Mandate, legislation) And in a tightly controlled environment, how can give access and control to our visitors?
I'd be interested in talking to anyone else involved in e-Learning i.e. online stuff with a specific learning goal or directly aimed at schools, families or adult learners.
Rhiannon Looseley
Rhiannon Looseley
How about iPhone (and other mobile) application development for cultural institutions?
I'd love to talk with people who are interested in thinking about
front-end and formative evaluation as an actual design approach (this
would easily fit into a user-centered design or participatory design
model). Any other HCI people or evaluators out there?
Jes
Really interesting question Richard. Also it would be good to see if anyone is using developments in these areas to re-animate old content - ie legacy content?
I'd be interested in that, though I don't know much about what's required to actually implement it. In general, I'm interested in anything to do with machine-friendly collections access - APIs, etc.
I am interested in discussing how to display collections online for research purposes. What do we need to display in terms of context to provide researchers with adequate information about the collections. Will there be more intricate databases and interfaces in the future? Do we have to produce special publications to replace the actual visit to the museum?
Kajsa Hartig
Digital Navigator, New media
Nordiska museet
Stockholm, Sweden
so it doesn't get lost, i'm adding a link to the suggestion for a Fedora Commons / Small Archives BoF here.
I would be interested in a table about mobile sites: who has built them, what they're doing, how they decided what to put on it, etc. I'd also be interested in a table with people doing development in Django.
That is, If I can get up early enough.