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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PoliCultura Portal: 15,000 Students Tell their Stories about Cultural Heritage

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digital storytelling
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multimedia
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Multimedia
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multichannel application
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Portal
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user generated content
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School outings to cultural institutions are potentially wonderful opportunities for bringing youngsters closer to culture. Unfortunately, most of the times, they are not as successful as they might be.

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Demonstration - show your project

Mini-Workshop on Outdoor, Museum Interactions

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Session
Date & Time: 
Apr 8 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
Commonwealth C/D

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

Description

In April 2010 the Museum of Copenhagen, in cooperation with Gibson Group Ltd and Spild af Tid/Waste of Time, launched a giant multi-touch multimedia installation in one of the central squares in Copenhagen. In the first half year of its 14 hour a day functioning, The WALL, as it is called, has attracted more than 400,000 users ...

Designing activities to encourage online engagement with museum collections

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Activity
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user generated content
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community
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user profiles
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content design
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This half-day workshop is for people who want to set up online activities for their visitors for the first time or who have some experience of doing this but want to expand or deepen their work. It will focus on the design of activities and not the technology. The aim will be for participants to go home with a number of ideas that they might put into practice on their own websites. 

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Workshop - full or half day
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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.

Type: 
Paper - in formal session