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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My Gallery Interactive: Engaging Museum Audiences with Technology

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multi-touch
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gallery interactive
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interactive
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open exhibits
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touch table
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international collaboration
Abstract: 

New technologies are allowing museums to engage visitors through innovative and interactive exhibitions. As part of this movement to enhance the visitor experience, the goal of My Gallery Interactive is to create a crowd-sourced experience using a novel multi-touch table interface that allows users to participate in the curatorial process in a fun and interactive way.

Type: 
Demonstration - show your project

OpenExhibits Tools Bootcamp

Type: 
Workshop
Tech Level: 
Developers: we'll do some Actionscript programming
Date & Time: 
Apr 6 2011 - 1:30pm
Location: 
Washington C

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

Description

Open Exhibits (www.openexhibits.org) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative to develop a library of free and open multitouch-enabled software modules for exhibit development.  Built using the popular Adobe Flash and Flex authoring tools, museum professionals can create multitouch and multiuser exhibits more easily.  In this half-day workshop, you'll learn how to get started

Taking the Museum to the Streets

Keywords: 
User-involvement
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urban identity
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multi-touch
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cultural heritage
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democracy
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dialogue
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interactive
Abstract: 

In a digitalised and globalised world, what are the challenges the museum faces when users increasingly experience knowledge as something created through blogs, wikis and other social platforms?

Type: 
Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches