museumsandtheweb.com - partnerships

Go down the rabbit hole with Wondermind

sharnajackson — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:07:22 +0000

MW2012

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game-based learning

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blog(s)

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partnerships

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children, collections, museums, play, learning, creativity, innovation, demonstration

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interactive video

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Wondermind is a suite of interactivities about art and neuroscience that includes games, interactive films and opportunities for discussion and debate. Aimed at 8-12s who may not normally engage with biomedical science, the project introduces key neuroscience concepts in brain development, illustrating them with works from the Tate collection and images inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Wondermind was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the games developed by Preloaded, interactive films by Martin Percy and the science content by Dr. Michelle de Haan from UCL, with a large number of teams at Tate being involved to get the project live.

The demonstation will showcase the Wondermind experience and I will talk about its production and development, with specific emphasis on creating content that is engaging for children, while presenting complex information and themes.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations II

Site:

http://wondermind.tate.org.uk/

Authors:

Sharna Jackson

Your Paintings - A nation's oil paintings goes online, tagged by the public

Andrew Ellis — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:36:16 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Your Paintings: A Nation’s Oil Paintings Go Online, Tagged by the Public

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crowdsourcing

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learning resources

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partnerships

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BBC

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PCF

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The presentation of this paper would be given by the two lead partners in the Your Paintings project: the BBC and the PCF. It would describe:

(i) The nine-year project to create a comprehensive photographic record of all oil paintings in public ownership across the United Kingdom that will reach its conclusion at the end of 2012. By that date the project will have catalogued approximately 200,000 paintings from around 3,000 collections including not only those in museums but also works in universities, hospitals, fire stations and other public buildings. The largest of these collections is the National Trust with over 12,000 oil paintings. At the other end of the scale are many collections that hold just one painting. In between lie famous collections such as Tate and the National Gallery and a massive core of unsung local authority museums.

(ii) The project to build and then run the Your Paintings website including reference to the audience research that preceded the build, the engagement of stakeholders, the programmes to reach wider audiences, how we are connecting broadcast BBC arts programmes to the Your Paintings website and the measures of success that are being used to track project progress.

(iii)The Your Paintings Tagger crowdsourcing project at http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/

which is creating enhanced meta data for the Your Paintings website using a methodology used in the classification of galaxies by the Citizen Science Alliance (the Galaxy Zoo project). This interface was built for the PCF by its supplier Keepthinking with Art Historical input provided to the project by the University of Glasgow. This meta data will allow users of the Your Paintings website to search for specific subject matter and styles and movements in paintings.

(iv) The plans to make Your Paintings data and images available to collections (and possibly others), through an API and other data sharing web services, thereby unlocking new value. The challenges addressed will include rights issues and technical barriers.

(v) The plans to create an online network of pro bono oil paintings expertise for participating collections to refer to in partnership with leading UK collections and the University of Glasgow. This network would play a role in substantiating useful suggestions about missing painting information that are being made by the public through the Art Detective feature on the Your Paintings website.

Andrew Ellis (PCF) and Dan Gluckman (BBC)

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations I

Site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

Authors:

Andy Ellis

Dan Gluckman

The Trade in Digital: Partnerships and Collaboration in the Content Economy

Timothy Hart — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:35:08 +0000

MW2011

Timothy Hart, Director Information, Multimedia and Technology, Museum Victoria, Australia

Abstract

In our massively connected world content is indeed king and museums if they take a close look, will find themselves, well placed to deliver highly sought after content to an ever expanding audience. Collaboration is emerging as the critical enabler in taking full advantage of the opportunities now available for the delivery of museum online content. Collaboration needs to be both internal and external. The number and quality of national data services now operating is making museum content available for researchers and the public in numbers and types unimaginable only a few years ago. The ground work is laid in most large museums to allow them to participate in providing access to the full range and wonder possible in museum generated content.

Keywords: collaboration, collections, content, data, partnerships, opportunity, economy, research, Australia

Program Item Reference:

The Trade in Digital: partnerships in the content economy

Museum Internship Programs as Catalysts for Change

mimi roberts — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:05:43 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Museum Internships as Catalysts for Change

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interns

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mentors

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AmeriCorps

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universities

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partnerships

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This discussion will focus on the new roles of interns as museums respond to radical changes, many of which have technological underpinnings, and job positions and career opportunities expand in cultural technology – the emerging field at the intersection of digital media, networks, and cultural content. Cultural repositories are at a critical transition point. The Web is having a profound impact on how institutions fulfill their cultural missions. An increasing share of resources – human and financial – are devoted to digitization, preservation, and online access.

Some of the questions we will address are as follows: How is technology driving changes in the traditional roles of museum interns and mentors? How can museum internship programs empower students from diverse backgrounds to become cultural interpreters and knowledge contributors? What are some strategies for funding internship partnerships between museums and universities? How can interns help museums adapt to technological change?

In June 2010 the Cultural Technology Partnership of the New Mexico Dept. of Cultural Affairs and New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts received funding to establish the first AmeriCorps Cultural Technology Internship Program. If this presentation is accepted we will bring two of our AmeriCorps volunteers to share their experiences and enliven discussion.

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Professional Forum - discuss an issue

Professional Forum on Museum Internship Programs

Authors:

mimi roberts

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"

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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

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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.

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Paper - in formal session

Multi-Channel

Site:

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

Authors:

Matthew Cock

andrew caspari

Katherine Campbell