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Opening Plenary
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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We'll kick off MW2011 together with a plenary speaker highlighting current questions.
We're delighted to welcome Kristin Purcell of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
Mobiles Inside Museums - FULL
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We'll examine processes to identify visitors’ navigation and interpretation needs, and develop and deploy dynamic wayfinding, mapping, tours and visitor guides. ...
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Mobile 'Untours' - FULL
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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This workshop is designed to get us thinking "outside the audio tour box" to devise radical new approaches to mobile experiences for museum audiences. ...
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Mobile Strategies & Business Models - FULL
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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This workshop takes the position that, “You don’t need A mobile strategy; you need mobile to be part of THE strategy.” ...
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More Than Tours: radical opportunities in mobile content design and social media
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The Trade in Digital: partnerships in the content economy
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
Launching the MFA Multimedia Guide: Lessons Learned
For the opening of the Museum's new Art of the Americas wing, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston embarked upon a sweeping new program to transform the traditional audio guide into a new iPod Touch-based multimedia guide.
Getting on (not under) the Mobile 2.0 Bus
The use of visitors' own devices for mobile programs in museums, which began with podcasts and cellphone tours some years ago, has enjoyed a renewed popularity in the age of the smartphone. A recent survey of nearly 1,600 visitors to the Smithsonian on the National Mall found that over half (52%) had an Internet-enabled phone, and 30% had a phone that could play apps.
Art App-reciation: Fostering engagement and reflection in museums through a social mobile application
Novice museum visitors often lack the skills for interpreting and engaging with works of art on display. We have observed visitors glossing through exhibits lacking the capacity to make meaning from art viewing.
Open Source and Mobile Apps: the case of Open Images
In the context of the national digitisation programme Images for the Future, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has designed and developed a complete technical architecture to support (mobile) location-based services for cultural heritage.
Situating Cultural Technologies Outdoors: Design Methods for Mobile Interpretation of Rock Art in Rural Britain
Mobile development and technology is the now, the here, the cutting edge. Rock art, or ‘cup and ring’ marks – Neolithic and Early Bronze Age carvings in stone – is the past. Here then may be the greatest contrast between the old and the new, the immutable and the ever changing.
Going Mobile? Insights into the museum community’s perspectives on mobile interpretation
If the future is mobile, how is the museum community experiencing that future, what are their ambitions within it, and in which areas is further knowledge share required? It was specifically to gain an insight into questions such as these that the 2010 International Museums and Mobile survey was developed. This paper will present and analyse the responses of the 600+ museum professi