conferences

in the second session of the tagging workshop ...

Emerging Motivations for Tagging: Expression, Performance and Activism

Alla Zollers

http://www2007.org/workshops/paper_55.pdf

Every year, the community nominates sites to be considered for the Best of the Web awards. Peer nominations (and self-nominations) create a short list of sites that are reviewed by a panel of judges, and winners are chosen in a number of categories.

It's Friday, and my favorite day at Museums and the Web. If you haven't been here before, get ready for a crazy day. The pace can be really hectic with things overlapping and so much to choose from, but it's a great time to hear the wisdom of the crowd. As the holder of an art degree, crit room is near and dear to my heart. Usability is always entertaining and every year, I learn a little something. Get ready for some fun.

The MW2007 papers are all on-line now, linked from the MW2007 speakers page at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/speakers/index.html

The site has:

• 76 papers
• 739 pages
• 1,615 files
• 27,120 links (or thereabouts)

The Museums and the Web papers are copy edited by the retired chair of a college English department (who also happens to be my mother). Her reaction to what she reads is always a bellweather to me, for she's pretty representative of one group of museum goers (and Web site users)

One of the pleasures of editing the MW papers is actually sitting down and reading them all.

I'm working on production of the book and web site / CD for MW2007. Papers are on-line before the meeting, and in the hands of the delegates at registration. A big part of this is making screen-shots and line art work on-line and in print. Here's the process (for those of you whom I'm asking for 'better images').

Today I was indexing some papers from the first (1991) ICHIM conference, as we prepared for ICHIM07 (the tenth of these meetings) in Toronto this fall. 1991 was the year the Gopher protocol first appeared, and there was, of course, no web. Yet it was fascinating to return to these papers at http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/ichim_91.html to discover how much of what we assume some days is new, is actually quite persistent since the birth of interactive multimedia.

International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings
October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/

David and I gave a workshop yesterday on 'Museums and Technology' for the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM). It was a last minute favour for a friend, that provided a chance to think about strategies for approaching technology choices.

WWW2007 Workshop:

Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization

Tuesday May 8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Call For Papers and Participation

http://www2007.redlog.net/

Mike Lowndes synthesizes... museums still don't know users, who they are and what they want.... and just when we think we've got them pinned down, they change, and the way that we reach them changes. Now, users themselves will be generating content in their own sites, and own spaces. "Our users are going to be in our face." -- we won't be able to hide from the re-use of museum content.

When people are empowered they are surprisingly creative and can invent new ways of looking at things. Users, like good teachers, need to be able to take the parts of the content that they need to illustrate the point that they need to make. We need to put bits of our content in their context.

Anra Kennedy (24hr museum) chairs Marshall Mateer, Bruce Phillips and Helen Wright.



What schools need.

Marshall Mateer http://shapesoftime.net

case study: children mapping docks where Titanic was built (entering content with geopositioning).

challenge= orientation. where am i in relation to the information that i am taking in? how does it relate to me, and how do i evaluate its dimension/scale?

case study: Journey in Stone: Caedmon School Project from the Cleveland Iron Mines.

industrial heritage of area no longer in the community; mines are gone as is their central presence in the community. children are creating content, comfortable with technology.

jt chairs John Pratty, Mike Ellis, and Lena Maculan

Jon Pratty: clusters of ideas... thoughts and ideas that are reactions to what we've seen today in the context of the re-design of the 24-hour museum.
- rss / xml = neural network that supports new activities and opportunities: simplicity, ubiquity, connectiveness.
- search engine environment has changed sense of audience (70% of activity starts with search); mass audience of a large scale. "every page is a home page"
- nov 2005 report from international telecommunications union: on the threshold of unanimous objects, bots and data transactions dominating the web. "the internet of things" how do they communicate? how do we interact with them? rfid?
- 'curators of meaning' that operate in a space independent of specific objects and collections: is interaction a poetic intervention?
- interactions that are surprising and engaging; that use our content in new ways in new places.