Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012): Sessions

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MW2012 will a variety of presentations and discussion venues, exploring all aspects of the creation, development, maintenance, and evaluation of Web sites in museums, cultural and heritage organizations.

Sessions provided an opportunity to present the results of research or summarize experience in a formal presentation, followed by a discussion. Mini-Workshops introduced tools, methods or techniques, Crit Rooms featured reviews of museum web sites in "real time". Issues were hashed out in Professional Forums, and Exhibitors presented updates on their projects in Briefings.

Thursday April 12, 2012

9:00 am - 10:00 am Grande Ballroom A&B	Opening Plenary Chair: Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian Institution, USA Total Immersion: Re-living the Archive (Opening Keynote Presentation by Sarah Kenderdine) Sarah Kenderdine, Australia
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Data & Tools	Connecting to Data Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way - everyone's invited Johan Oomen, Marieke van Erp, The Netherlands Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution's MacFarlane Collection to ‘Inuvialuit Living History’ Kate Hennessy, Nicholas Jakobsen, Ryan Wallace, Charles Arnold, Canada Using LIDO as an Interoperability Tool for the Finnish Museums Sector: A Hands-on Approach to Aggregating Content from the Museum Collection Management Systems to the National Digital Library of Finland Mikael Vakkari, Riitta Autere, Finland
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Big Picture Thinking	Digital strategy Navigating the bumpy road: a tactical approach to delivering the digital strategy Charlotte Sexton, Carolyn Royston, United Kingdom The Future of Interactivity Bruce Wyman, USA Blow Up Your Digital Strategy: Changing the Conversation about Museums and Technology Robert Stein, USA
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mobile & Play	Pervasive Fun Levelling up: Towards best practice in evaluating museum games Danny Birchall, kate haley goldman, Dan Evans, Martha Henson, United Kingdom Augmented Reality – What reality can we learn from it? Cherry Thian, Singapore Delightfully lost: a new kind of wayfinding at Kew Natasha Waterson, Mike Saunders, United Kingdom
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Reading Audiences	Tools for tapping into visitor behavior Evaluating the Practical Applications of Eye Tracking in Museums Robert Stein, Ed Bachta, USA Using QR codes, mobile apps and wifi tracking data to understand visitor behaviour in exhibitions Sebastian Chan, Luke Dearnley, Australia A Study of Digital Media, Tools, and Technology Use Steven Beasley, Annie Conway, USA
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Grande Ballroom A&B	UnConference Topic Proposal Session
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	UnConference Breakouts
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	After Gutenberg Steps towards an ontology of digital mediation in museum communication Costis Dallas, Greece Narrating Culture on the Web: Assisting Audience Participation through Reading Rhetoric and Innovating Online Forum Design Mary Pettice, United States From the Ground Up (or the Inside Out): New Approaches in Digital Publishing Sarah Hromack, Rachel Craft, United States
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm Data & Tools	Megadata Linking European Television Heritage Nikolaos Simou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Nasos Drosopoulos, Jean-Pierre EVAIN, Johan Oomen, Marco Rendina, Italy 10 Museums, 12 Months, 1 DAM system: Adventures in centralized systems at Balboa Park Howard Goldstein, Perian Sully, USA Preserving Flickr and Other Sites of Interest to Museums Ryan Donahue, Aaron Cope, USA
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Mobile & Play	NextGen Mobile Applied Beyond Cool: Making Mobile Augmented Reality Work for Museum Education Shelley Mannion, London Sounds of the Sea: Making a Mixed Reality Oral History Application for the St Ives Archive Jeanie Sinclair, United Kingdom Enhancing Museum Narratives with the QRator Project: a Tasmanian devil, a Platypus and a Dead Man in a Box. Steven Gray, Claire Ross, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Claire Warwick, United Kingdom
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Reading Audiences	Optimizing engagement Delivering mobile from the ground-up: exploring the approach Hugh Wallace, Dafydd James, Loic Tallon, United Kingdom Exploring the Relationship Between Visitor Motivation and Engagement in Online Museum Audiences Silvia Filippini Fantoni, Robert Stein, USA

Friday April 13, 2012

9:00 am - 10:00 am	Professional Forum on Let's Get Real Let's Get Real Jane Finnis, Sebastian Chan, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Mini-Workshop on Agile Games for Productive Teams Agile Games for Productive Teams Dana Mitroff Silvers, David Hendee, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 pm	Mini-Workshop on Making sure your web presence is accessible to people with disabilities Making sure your web presence is accessible to people with disabilities Ranti Junus, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Mini-Workshop on Producing Calendar Content for Multiple Platforms Save the Date: Producing Calendar Content for Multiple Platforms Maren Dougherty, USA
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Professional Forum on Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication Allegra Burnette, Costis Dallas, Greece
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Mini-Workshop on bringing your museum metadata into the Linked Data Cloud with the help of Google Refine Your ticket to the Linked Data cloud : a hands-on approach for bringing your museum metadata into the Linked Data Cloud with the help of Google Refine Carlos Arroyo, Australia
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Usability Lab (part 1)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Web Crit Room Chair: Bruce Wyman, Second Story Interactive Studios, USA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Professional Forum on Collaborating with Technology Collaborating with Technology: A Discussion with 5 cultural leaders from Balboa Park Deborah Klochko, Katharine Wardle, David Kinney, Reed Vickerman, John Wilson, USA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mini-Workshop on SFMOMA’s Art Game Laboratory: Real-Life Mad Science Experiments in Visitor Engagement SFMOMA’s Art Game Laboratory: Real-Life Mad Science Experiments in Visitor Engagement Erica Gangsei, USA
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Professional Forum on Content strategy for museum websites Too much stuff! Content strategy for museum websites Kate Chmiel, Jonny Brownbill, Australia
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Mini-Workshop on Building an Online Commons for Balboa Park Building an Online Commons for Balboa Park Christina DePaolo, Erick Kendrick, Christopher Borkowski, Abe Serrano, USA
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mobile Crit Room Chair: Sebastian Chan, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, USA
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	What do we really know about social media in museums? Professional Forum on social media in museums Elissa Frankle, Georgina Goodlander, Victoria Portway, Jeff Gates, Effie Kapsalis, Darren Milligan, Brian Alpert, MJ Meredith, Erin Marie Blasco, Sarah Banks, David Klevan, Amelia Wong, USA
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mini-Workshop on Using an RDF Data Pipeline to Implement Cross Collection Search Using an RDF Data Pipeline to Implement Cross Collection Search David Henry, USA
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Usability Lab (part 2)
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Professional Forum about the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)? What's new about the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)? Susan Chun, Mary Lijnzaad, Nancy Proctor, Sebastian Chan, USA
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Professional Forum on Website Project Management 21 websites in 26 months Christina DePaolo, Kristine Page, Devon Foster, USA
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Student-led Forum on Museums and the Web Student-led Forum on Museums and the Web Nancy Proctor, USA
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Best of the Web Awards Ceremony

Saturday April 14, 2012

11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Shifting the Limits - How to go beyond one-way guiding in Museums with Fluxguide & „visitor-generated content“ on-the-spot Chair: Kasra Seirafi, FLUXGUIDE - create an open & social environment at your exhibition space, Austria Shifting the Limits - How to go beyond one-way guiding in Museums with Fluxguide & „visitor-generated content“ on-the-spot Kasra Seirafi, Andre Seirafi, Austria
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Reading Audiences	Case studies in reading web metrics Museums in perspective: share and discuss daily data about museums and their audiences. Rui Guerra, The Netherlands Making sense of numbers: a journey of spreading the online metrics culture across Tate Elena Villaespesa, Tijana Tasich, United Kingdom
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Big Picture Thinking	Mobile strategy You’ve Gone Mobile, Now What? Allegra Burnette, Peter Samis, USA What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology Robert Stein, Charles Moad, USA Creating a mobile app ecosystem - the Genera project for iOS Simon Sherrin, Elycia Wallis, Australia
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Data & Tools	Online finding Exploring Affective Computing for Enhancing the Museum Experience with Online Collections Gunho Chae, S. Joon Park, Robert Stein, Jungwha Kim, Susan Wiedenbeck, USA Providing accessible online collections Alex Morrison, Rachael Rainbow, Matt Morgan, USA A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr, Greece
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Data & Tools	The Agony and the Ecstasy of Open building=yes Aaron Cope, USA Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web Jon Voss, Paula Bray, Australia Dissenting Academies Online: The Opportunities and Challenges of Making the Collections of a Private Research Library Accessible to the Public Kyle Roberts, USA
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Closing Plenary: Epic fail Epic fail - a forum on failure and 'failing forwards' Sebastian Chan, Jane Finnis, United Kingdom

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