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Preserving Flickr and Other Sites of Interest to Museums

ryand — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:10:00 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Archiving Flickr and Other Websites of Interest to Museums

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flickr

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digital preservation

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preservation

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museums

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internet

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website

Abstract:

The digital turn, whether it be in photography, motion pictures, literature or other persuits, has forever changed the ways and means by which museums collect, interpret and dessiminate objects. Historically, museums have dealt primarily with objects that, in some way, are intuitiviely graspable from observation. Arrowheads are pointy, photographs are plainly seen, and writing read (with varying degrees of difficulty).
Digital information, on the other hand, is many times more difficult to intuitively grasp, and in many cases impossible to intuitively grasp. This has lead to a shifting approach in collection management: collect materials before they are scattered to the hard drives and floppy discs of history. With such a shift in approach, museums must become adept at preserving digital objects and ephemera in their original context, in many cases, a website. We examine one site of particular interest and complexity: Flickr.
Preserving Flickr has long been a popular subject of conversation among Flickr staff, alumni, and the museum community. Various tools and first steps have been taken, but no one to date has addressed the seemingly impossible task of preservation.
The authors of this paper are very familiar with its subject. Aaron Straup Cope is a Flickr alumni, and Ryan Donahue is the Manager of Information Systems at George Eastman House, an early partner institution of the Flickr Commons. Through our own knowledge and consultation with museum professionals, we shall address:

* The expectations of the community, that is to say, our assertions about the quality and characteristics of the information that is needed for preservation, which data is nice to have, and what is unlikely to be particularly important in the future, or even confusing.
* The state of Flickr today: What preservation mechanisms exist, the availability of programatic access to data via the Flickr API, and any ancillary issues pertaining to Flickr as it is today.
* Technical specifications of preserving Flickr: storage size, medium, formats, etc. and the rough costs of archiving when leveraging advances in archival storage, such as in-line block-level de-duplication, embedded metadata and non-relational data stores.
* Formulate a strategy for preservation that may be applied to other such sites of interest, integrating the foundational work of the OAIS model.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Megadata

Authors:

Ryan Donahue

Aaron Cope

Sicilian Cultural Heritage and Museums global website

flaviazisa@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:41:37 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

art

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culture

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tourism

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museums

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archaeology

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Sicily

Abstract:

The first website of all Sicilian museums, archaeological parks and sites, art galleries. The key objectives are: to give the public a wider understanding of Sicilian history and art, including news about the cultural events-exhibitions and a rich menu of practical info; to create a database with thousands of art objects, with related images and description cards.

Audience: visiitors, students, researchers.

The demonstration will be about the "prototype" of the project.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations I

Authors:

Flavia Zisa

Caboodle by Culture24: How to engage children with your collection online in a new way (and how they can engage you in theirs!)

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:40 +0000

Finnis, J., & Kennedy A. (2010). Caboodle by Culture24: How to engage children with your collection online in a new way (and how they can engage you in theirs!). (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Professional Forum on the Distributed Museum

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:07:41 +0000

Type:

Session

Programs:

Understanding the Distributed Museum: A Creative Visualization of Contemporary Digital Practices

Date & Time:

April 8, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Congress

museums

future

commmunity

discussion

debate

forum

distributed museum

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

Description

Where is the museum and to whom does it matter? How do we create and maintain the museum collection in an age of distributed media? How can we even visualize it?

National Endowment for the Humanities Funding Opportunities

mshirley59 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:55:58 +0000

MW2011

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funding

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grants

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humanities

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museums

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NEH

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mediamakers

Abstract:

Michael Shirley will conduct a workshop that will discuss the various funding opportunities available to cultural institutions and media makers. He will provide specific examples of successful projects, will share grant-writing tips, and more.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

U.S. Funding Agencies Briefing

Authors:

Michael Shirley

Understanding the Distributed Museum: A Creative Visualization of Contemporary Digital Practices

ssbautista — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:47:49 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Understanding the Distributed Museum: Mapping the Spaces of Museology in Contemporary Culture

Keywords:

museums

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digital technology

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learning

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network

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distributed

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model

Abstract:

Where is the museum for the digital generation? Our presentation will suggest a way of visualizing the practices that make up the identity of the distributed museum. We will report on research that examined the ways in which public museums and libraries in the United States offer informal-learning opportunities to the born-digital generation, often as part of a creative network ecology that includes formal learning programs and institutions. Rather than present a list of “best practices,” we will outline an analytical framework that examines a range of new practices that transcend a number of binaries used to define contemporary digital culture: i.e., the virtual versus the physical, fixed versus mobile, open versus closed systems of creative offerings.

We use the term “the distributed museum” to describe the form that the museum takes as it is part of the creation and movement among new spaces that comprise contemporary networked learning environments. We know that museums and libraries are important nodes within these networked learning ecologies. We also know that the museum is no longer considered to be located only in a particular physical space, but due to the development of new practices and services it now extends its presence through all sorts of virtual spaces on the WWW as well as in the transient spaces created through the diverse practices and technologies of mobility.

The distributed museum exists “over” the conceptual divides between physical and the virtual, the fixed and the mobile. Moreover we consider a third axis of museum offerings that are situated on the continuum of “making practices” and engagements with DIY (do-it-yourself) culture. Here we map a range of practices that include closed-ended, guided, making activities (interactives), as well as more open-ended exploratory ones (tinkering). The presentation will take the form of a digital visualization of the creative inventory of practices that comprise the distributed museum.

Reactions are invited.

Type:

Professional Forum - discuss an issue

Professional Forum on the Distributed Museum

Authors:

Susana Bautista

Anne Balsamo

On air, online and onsite: The British Museum and BBC’s A History of the World

matthewcock — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:48:41 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

On Air, Online and Onsite: The British Museum and BBC’s "A History of the World"

Keywords:

broadcast

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radio

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partnerships

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museums

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social media

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user generated content

Abstract:

A History of the World in 100 Objects was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 100 15-minute programmes divided into 3 series in the Spring, Summer and Autumn of 2010. Presented by Neil McGregor, Director of the British Museum, each programme investigated in depth an object from the Museum’s collection and through the year formed a narrative that told a history of our world from man’s first artefact, the handaxe to the present day (the identity of the 100^th object has not been made public at the time of writing).

This paper takes a brief look at the history of collaborations between museums and broadcasters, before going to present how the BBC and BM project team developed a digital offer (centred on www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld) that both supported and extended the core programmes, building on the central idea that objects have a unique power to tell stories and make connections across the globe.

The paper will discuss the arc of the project in the three spheres – on air, online and onsite at the British Museum and in museums across the UK – and show how the project was developed and sustained in the build-up to the first broadcast and throughout the year, on Radio 4 and other BBC radio and TV channels, the A History of the World and British Museum websites, the blog, mobile site, and social media sites. In addition to the core 100 British Museum objects, the project extended to include contributions from over 500 museums across the UK and several thousand individuals, who uploaded their object and its story to the site – both online, at schools and at events throughout the UK.

We will also discuss some of the issues encountered during the scoping of the digital components– particularly focusing on maintaining the centrality of the broadcast offer, while opening it out to wider contribution and ownership – both that of partner museums and the public. We will then conclude by assessing the reach and impact of this unique project, and look how it can be used as a model of future public service partnerships between broadcasters and cultural organisations in a digital era.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Multi-Channel

Site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

Authors:

Matthew Cock

andrew caspari

Katherine Campbell

Introduction: On Being Social

jtrant — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:27:42 +0000

Trant, J., & Bearman D. (2010). Introduction: On Being Social. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010: Selected Papers from an international Conference. 3-12.

Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:59 +0000

[Anonymous] (2010). Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

It's So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:50 +0000

Feld, B. (2010). It's So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Gaze-tracking and museums: current research and implications

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:48 +0000

Milekic, S. (2010). Gaze-tracking and museums: current research and implications. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

ATHENA: A Mechanism for Harvesting Europe's Museum Holdings into Europeana

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:39 +0000

Hazan, S., Hagedorn-Saupe M., & Caffo R. (2010). ATHENA: A Mechanism for Harvesting Europe's Museum Holdings into Europeana. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Museums and the Web 2009. Selected Papers from an international conference

jtrant — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:30:53 +0000

Trant, J., & Bearman D. (2009). Museums and the Web 2009. Selected Papers from an international conference. Museums and the Web.

On Being Open [Introduction]

jtrant — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:30:53 +0000

Trant, J., & Bearman D. (2009). On Being Open [Introduction]. Museums and the Web 2009. Proceedings.

Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures

jtrant — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Chung, J., & Wilkening S. (2008). Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures.

Archival Appraisal of Online Information Systems