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Mini-Workshop on Collaboration and Dark Fiber

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:38:56 +0000

Type:

Session

Programs:

Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Date & Time:

April 8, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

Commonwealth A/B

Networking

collaboration

network

WAN

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

Description

Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Rich Cherry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:05:59 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Collaboration, Dark Fiber and the Challenges of Deploying Mobile Infrastructure

Keywords:

BPOC

Keywords:

collaborative

Keywords:

network

Keywords:

dark fiber

Keywords:

shared resources

Keywords:

virtualization

Abstract:

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) was created to lead technology-focused cooperation between 20 Balboa Park institutions. One of the challenges BPOC quickly uncovered when it began, was a serious limitation to supporting collaboration caused by the lack of IT infrastructure necessary to network the institutions together. As a result, BPOC has installed the infrastructure necessary for a high speed (1GB/second) connection between the organizations, to provide a 100mb internet connection and also to provide a connection to CalREN, the California Research and Education Network to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected. The connection to CalREN also provides connectivity to non-California institutions and industry research organizations such as Internet2, high-speed networks in Mexico and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Networks.

This mini workshop will explore the technology options as they relate to Wide Area Networks (WAN’s), the technical, civil engineering and political challenges that the different options create, a planning checklist for dealing with the challenges as well the reasons that multiple institutions might desire collaborate on a WAN. All of this info will then be reviewed in the context of the Balboa Park WAN Project deployment as well as other museum WAN deployments with failures and successes highlighted.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Site:

http://www.bpoc.org

Authors:

Rich Cherry

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

Keywords:

digital technology

Keywords:

learning

Keywords:

network

Keywords:

distributed

Keywords:

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