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.

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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.


7:30 am - 11:30 pm	Hotel Dreamy: The MW2012 mobile experience app by artist Halsey Burgund
9:00 am - 10:00 am Grande Ballroom A&B	Opening Plenary Chair: Nancy Proctor, Museums and the Web, USA Total Immersion: Re-living the Archive (Opening Keynote Presentation by Sarah Kenderdine) Sarah Kenderdine, Australia
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Data & Tools Harbor Island III	Connecting to Data Chair: Piotr Adamczyk, Google, USA Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way - everyone's invited Johan Oomen, Marieke van Erp, Lotte Belice Baltussen, 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 Mubil: a Digital Laboratory Alexandra Angeletaki, Marcello Carrozzino, Letizia Jaccheri, Chiara Evangelista, Italy/Norway
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Big Picture Thinking Grande Ballroom C	Digital strategy Chair: Timothy Hart, Museum Victoria, Australia 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 Seabreeze I&II	Pervasive Fun Chair: Titus Bicknell, Discovery Communications, USA Levelling up: Towards best practice in evaluating museum games Danny Birchall, Kate Haley Goldman, Daniel 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 Nautilus 1	Tools for tapping into visitor behavior Chair: Corey Timpson, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Canada Evaluating the Practical Applications of Eye Tracking in Museums Robert Stein, Ed Bachta, Silvia Filippini Fantoni, Tiffany Leason, 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 Nautilus 1	After Gutenberg Chair: Liz Neely, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA 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 - 5:00 pm Data & Tools Seabreeze I&II	Megadata Chair: David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics, Canada 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 Grande Ballroom C	NextGen Mobile Applied Chair: Bruce Wyman, Independent Consultant, USA 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, Melissa Terras, United Kingdom
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Reading Audiences Harbor Island III	Optimizing engagement Chair: Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 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 Open Innovation and Open Source: A Guide for Content Developers Bob Ketner, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 am Harbor Island III	Professional Forum on Let's Get Real Let's Get Real Jane Finnis, Sebastian Chan, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 am Seabreeze I&II	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 Grande Ballroom C	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 Nautilus 1	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 Harbor Island III	Professional Forum on Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication Chair: Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art, USA Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication Allegra Burnette, Costis Dallas, Lev Manovich, Peter Samis, Sarah Kenderdine, Susan Hazan, Israel
10:00 am - 5:00 pm Nautilus Foyer	Mapping the Musetech Landscape Chair: Susan Chun, USA
10:00 am - 11:00 am Nautilus 1	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 Seabreeze I&II	Usability Lab 1 Chair: Silvia Filippini Fantoni, Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Grande Ballroom C	Web Crit Room Chair: Bruce Wyman, Independent Consultant, USA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Nautilus 1	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 Harbor Island III	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 Seabreeze I&II	Professional Forum on Content strategy for museum websites Too much stuff! Content strategy for museum websites Kate Chmiel, Australia
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Nautilus 1	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 Grande Ballroom C	Mobile Crit Room Chair: Sebastian Chan, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, USA
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Harbor Island III	Professional Forum on "What do we really know about social media in museums?" What do we really know about social media in museums? Elissa Frankle, Georgina Goodlander, Victoria Portway, Jeff Gates, Darren Milligan, Brian Alpert, Erin Marie Blasco, Sarah Banks, David Klevan, Amelia Wong, USA
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Nautilus 1	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 Seabreeze I&II	Usability Lab 2 Chair: Dana Mitroff Silvers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Grande Ballroom C	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, Sebastian Chan, USA
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Nautilus 1	Professional Forum on 21 websites in 26 months 21 websites in 26 months Christina DePaolo, Kristine Page, Devon Foster, USA
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Harbor Island III	Student-led Forum on Museums and the Web Chair: Randall Packer, Johns Hopkins University, USA Maintaining Authenticity, Avoiding Distraction: A Social Media Experiment at the Newseum (Student-led Forum) Aaron Baker, Rachel Greiner, Ruth Goerger, Gabriela Gil, USA
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Grande Ballroom A&B	Best of the Web Awards Ceremony Chair: Douglas Hegley, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
9:00 am - 10:00 am Nautilus 1	Multi-channel communication
10:00 am - 11:00 am Nautilus 1	Innovative Solutions to the ever changing platform of Multi Media Visitor Experiences Innovative Solutions to the ever changing platform of Multi Media Visitor Experiences Alice Walker, dina helal, James Morgan, United State
10:00 am - 11:00 pm Marina 2	Mini-workshop: Drop-In Clinic for Building Better Mobile Projects, From Processes to Outcomes Mini-workshop:Drop-In Clinic for Building Better Mobile Projects, From Processes toOutcomes Sandy Goldberg, Lindsey Green, Alyson Webb, United kingdom
10:00 am - 11:00 am Grande Ballroom C	Overcoming Barriers to Adopting a Mobile or Tablet App Overcoming Barriers to Adopting a Mobile or Tablet App juan sanabria, usa
10:00 am - 11:00 am Seabreeze I&II	Project Introduction: Project Audience Project Audience Susan Chun, Greg Curtin, USA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Seabreeze I&II	Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got Ian Smith, UK
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Marina 2	Piction: From DAM to Digital Storefront Piction: From DAM to Digital Storefront Erick Kendrick, Australia
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Nautilus 1	Project Introduction: Digital Public Library of America Digital Public Library of America: Code, Metadata, Content, Tools and Services, and Community Susan Chun, Rachel Frick, USA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Grande Ballroom C	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 Seabreeze I&II	Case studies in reading web metrics Chair: Brian Dawson, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Canada 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 Learning to Let Go: Changing Patterns of Participation and Learning through the Digital Collections of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) michela clari, Philip Graham, United Kingdom
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Big Picture Thinking Grande Ballroom C	Mobile strategy Chair: Marthe de Vet, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands You’ve Gone Mobile, Now What? Allegra Burnette, Marc Check, USA What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology Charles Moad, Robert Stein, USA Creating a mobile app ecosystem - the Genera project for iOS Simon Sherrin, Elycia Wallis, Australia
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Data & Tools Nautilus 1	Online finding Chair: Ryan Donahue, George Eastman House, USA 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 - 2:30 pm Marina 2	Ruckus Wireless: The Smart Wi-Fi Antenna Technology That Steers Signals to Users. Ruckus Wireless: The Smart Wi-Fi Antenna Technology That Steers Signals to Users. David Callisch, USA
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Data & Tools Nautilus 2	The Agony and the Ecstasy of Open Chair: jennifer trant, archives & museum informatics, Canada Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web Jon Voss, Paula Bray, Australia building=yes Aaron Cope, USA Online Scholarly Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Planning to Implementation Liz Neely, Sam Quigley, USA
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Grande Ballroom A&B	Closing Plenary: Epic fail Epic fail - a forum on failure and 'failing forwards' Sebastian Chan, Jane Finnis, United Kingdom

Posted January 7, 2012 - 1:44am by Rich Cherry

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