museumsandtheweb.com - Comments for "MW2009 Birds of a Feather Breakfast Topics"

collaboration

dgreenfield — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:52:19 +0000

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.

Metadata: data about data

chpoppe — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:27:39 +0000

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?

Control and Access

Kathryn Lyons — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:24:38 +0000

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?

open linked data and legacy content

jon_pratty — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:53:40 +0000

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?

e-Learning

rlooseley — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:52:33 +0000

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

How about iPhone (and other

jkrogh — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:23:22 +0000

How about iPhone (and other mobile) application development for cultural institutions?

User-centered design/Participatory Design BOF

jkoepfler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:26 +0000

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?

I'd be interested in that,

mia — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:27:08 +0000

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.

Displaying collections online for research

kajsahartig — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:02:04 +0000

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?

Fedora Commons "Small Archives" BOF breakfast

slate — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:38:20 +0000

so it doesn't get lost, i'm adding a link to the suggestion for a Fedora Commons / Small Archives BoF here.

mobile sites

justin_heideman — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:44:00 +0000

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.