Museums and the Web

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

Museums and the web 2013

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Weaving and hacking collections

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API
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open data
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Linked Open Data
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hacking
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In this hands-on workshop we are going to create concepts and use cases based on available online resources. Using the API's of our colleagues we like to research how we can make new experiences for our (online) visitors when combining our joint collections. 

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Workshop - full or half day
Authors: 
Paul Stork
Kars Veling
Matthijs van der Meulen
Hein Wils
Ebelien Pondaag
Lukas van Driel
Anna Offermans

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
Site: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives
Authors: 
Alan Renga

Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang

Ridge, M. (2010).  Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Uniting the shanty towns - data combining across multiple institutions

Chan, S. (2008).  Uniting the shanty towns - data combining across multiple institutions. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2008. Proceedings.