conferences

”Bra fråga!”, ”Det har vi inte råd med”, ”Besökarna vill inte använda sina egne mobiltelefoner” Minibloggandet är en klar favorit bland oss som deltar på webbkonferensen.

Arrangörerna av webbkonferens är både kunniga och metodorienterade. Nytt för i år är un-conference sessions som tar tillvara på de samtal och möten som uppstår på internationella konferenser. Metoden är informell och man tar med sig ett ämne eller fråga till ett rum och diskuterar fritt.

Här är konferensprogrammet. Hör av dig om du vill att jag kollar upp något som du är nyfiken på. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/sessions/index.html

Can you see the rabbit?  from jtrant on flickr

we're looking forward to seeing you all in Indianapolis next week. Spring isn't quite as far along as in this picture, but temperatures do look good. See the full forecast on the weather network.

And remember, if you are coming from reminder: if you're coming to MW2009 from outside the US and Canada, you need to fill in the USA Immigration ESTA form.

there are details about airport transfers on the MW2009 Local Information page. Check out the MW2009 Yelp! page for Indy restaurant recommendations.

travel safely!

Webbredaktörens deltagande på konferensen Museum and the Web leder på följande sätt att nå Riksutställningars verksamhetsmål.

Something social, networked and slightly different is happening at #mw2009. From a small base in the Directors Room, our team of editorial volunteers will be actively weaving threads between Twitter comment, external blogs, and live post-session feedback.

We’ll collect everything onto conference.archimuse.com while ideas are still buzzing. It's about weaving together all sorts of voices, on all kinds of platforms, telling the story of the place and the space as we unfold our sessions, workshops and in-between moments.

the slides from my presentation yesterday at Keio University, Tokyo, are on-line now, at slideshare [and embedded below]. Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about what keeps you up at night.

/jt

AAM + ACM session (Five-Minute Media Matinee and Big Impact/Low Budget)

Has your museum been experimenting with different types of media outlets and devices to advance your promotional or educational goals? Do you know of someone who has? We'd like to know about it!

Here's how the Best of the Web 2009 is going to work.

The next Culture Geeks’ talk is a special Christmas edition, with
speaker Etienne Posthomus, who will be joining us from Amsterdam to talk
about:
" The polyglot collection – making multilingual subject access to collections possible using ICONCLASS and Arkyves "

At http://www.arkyves.org/
Arkyves you will find a collection of images and descriptive metadata

i spent a chunk of today "participating online" in the 'web 2.0 summit' hosted by the City of Toronto, subtitled "Moving towards Government 2.0" [see the Agenda]. i hadn't heard anything about it until a tweet from Kevin Von Appen of the Ontario Science Centre mentioned he was speaking. the event offered 'on-line participation' and since i didn't have a time to head downtown i figured i'd check it out.

what i got was a lesson in how not to run an on-line event. rather than use the opportunity to model the kinds of changes in communications patterns that 'web 2.0' tech enables, the event was a one-way, an opportunity to watch 'guys in the know' talk to each other. video went out from the meeting, complete with horrible music when there was a break in the audio feed. "questions" could be submitted through an 'ask a question' form, but they turned out to be highly moderated.  [there was no mention of moderation anywhere in the prep materials.] there was a link to 'view the moderators board', but from my experience a lot of what was asked never made it there. at one point it disappeared completely for me. there was also a form to enter 'comments'. where they went was anyone's guess. i couldn't find any trace of what i  submitted, anywhere [though tech support did tell me the went 'into the same database as everything else'. how reassuring.]

i gave a keynote this morning at the Dublin Core Metadata Meeting - DC2008 on access to art museums on-line: a role for social tagging and folksonomy? that reports on more of the steve.museum tagging data analysis. this talk built on what i reported at NKOS last week [steve.museum: public and professional vocabularies. presentation @ NKOS 2008] and extended it to include some thoughts on user-generated metadata – useful in the context of DC, which began its life as a format for encoding user-created metadata – and a bit of work about the relationships between tags and search logs.

my slides are here (without some of the funky builds).

while we'd hypothesized that there might be a tight relationship between tags and search terms, what we found was a much looser coupling. whether this is a self-fulilling prophesy – because searches on the kinds of subject and genre terms that they use to tag fail, people don't use them – or because description and retrieval vocabularies vary at some other level still needs some thought. that's what the examples we looked at seemed to indicate, and a place i'll be looking further.

I flew into Houston, Texas yesterday for the 21st Annual Visitor Studies Association conference. This is my first time in Space City, as well as the Lone Star State, for that matter. This morning, I presented a workshop with Jes Koepfler, a fellow Museum Studies grad and my “partner in crime” on the Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum online exhibition project (we co-managed this project put together by the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies Class of 2008 using a wiki). Appropriately, we presented Using Wikis for Project Management.

The deadline for submitting a program proposal for American Association of Museums, Media&Technology 2009 Philadelphia (April 30-May 4) is approaching quickly. For Media&Technology endorsement, the deadline is July 11, Friday, 2008.

For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/