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Save the Date: Producing Calendar Content for Multiple Platforms

MDougherty — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:52:13 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Save the Date: Producing Calendar Content for Multiple Platforms

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data

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web strategy

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Web content

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museum calendar

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Drupal calendar

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“Multiplatform”

Abstract:

Audiences expect to find information about museum events and exhibitions in many formats using a variety of devices. Some people may use their local community paper to find a listing of the next weekend’s events but many others will use their smartphones, tablets, or laptops—or seek instant access to the information once they’ve arrived at a destination. Given museums’ limited staffing, re-entering data is not an efficient use of resources. But what are the best practices for creating content for multiple platforms?

At the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, we have created a flow through which calendar events are created for the Balboa Park website and are fed out to a branded Balboa Park iPhone app, Spotlight Mobile’s Meridian platform (for iOS and Android devices), and on-site interactive kiosks. We have also made duplicate versions of this feed available to media outlets for their use in creating community calendars.

This paper and session will review the steps through which participants could develop a similar flow for their organizations’ content and discuss aspects of the content that need to be optimized for mobile apps and kiosks.

This session is appropriate for staff who manage web and mobile content for their organizations.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Producing Calendar Content for Multiple Platforms

Site:

http://www.balboapark.org

Authors:

Maren Dougherty

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

Functional Requirements for Membership, Development & Participation Systems

ngamble — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:48:29 +0000

Bearman, D. (1990). Functional Requirements for Membership, Development & Participation Systems. Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Reports. 71 pp.