Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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Visually Digging into Museum Data

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collaboration
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IT Research
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Content-Based Image Retrieval
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quilts
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international
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How can a museum community with an active online user base collaborate in fundamental computer science research to the benefit of both researchers and museum audiences?  How can the museum’s digital assets inform fundamental computer science research questions? How can the computer science research and algorithm development be translated into user tools for the museum community?

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Demonstration - show your project

Moving the Museum to the Medium: YouTube Play and the Guggenheim

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youtube
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video
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social media
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metrics
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art
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collaboration
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presentation
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global
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In June 2010, the Guggenheim Museum and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, launched YouTube Play.

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Demonstration - show your project

Mini-Workshop on Collaboration and Dark Fiber

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Session
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Apr 8 2011 - 1:00pm
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Commonwealth A/B

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

This mini workshop will explore the technology options as they relate to Wide Area Networks (WAN’s), the technical, civil engineering and political challenges that the different options create, a planning checklist for dealing with the challenges as well the reasons that multiple institutions might desire collaborate on a WAN.

Accelerating in Flight: Access to a Collection via Flickr

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flickr
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social media
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BPOC
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collaboration
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mashup
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In an effort to get more of the Balboa Park Museum’s collections online and accessible to the public, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) has been leading an effort to efficiently and quickly digitize the wealth of media in the Park museums collection.

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Demonstration - show your project
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The Trade in Digital: partnerships in the content economy

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collections
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digitisation
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partnership
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collaboration
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mobile
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change
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Come and discuss a paper that will examine the notion of the content economy where digital assets are the new currency for museums.  Our collections have always been central to our existence and mission, the content economy is only increasing the importance of collections.  The availability of digital assets both collection and non collection is critical to our success online as

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Professional Forum - discuss an issue
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Why reinvent the wheel over and over again? How an offline platform stimulates online innovation

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collaboration
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innovation
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knowledge sharing
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unconference
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platform
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In this paper, the case of an innovative Dutch think-tank for the cultural sector is described. The Heritage Innovators Network (INE in Dutch) is unique in the Netherlands.

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Paper - in formal session

Design of an Appreciation Support System for Public Art Using Mobile Phones

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user-centered design
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collaboration
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mobile phones
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public art
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art appreciation
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The purpose of this study is the development of a navigation system that will help enhance appreciation for urban art by connecting viewers with other people’s thoughts and opinions of art pieces. Hiroshima, located in western Japan, has many works of public art that have assumed a theme of peace.

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Paper - in formal session

How to Evaluate Online Success – New action research with 24 institutions

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metrics
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collaboration
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social media
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best practice
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analytics
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evaluation
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How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector – museums, archives, galleries, arts organisations, libraries, publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards.

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Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

TourML: An Emerging Standard for Museum Mobile Experiences

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standards
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metadata
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collaboration
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preservation
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mobile tours
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tourml
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The recent explosion of options used by museums to produce mobile experiences is undeniable.  In the last 18 months, dozens of new mobile platforms have entered the marketplace as museums are planning, producing, and launching new experiences for visitors on their mobile devices.

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Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches