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22nd International Sculpture Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

International Sculpture Center — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:45 +0000

22nd International Sculpture Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

London, UK – April 2010

Thoughts on MW2009---An outsider looking in

bradh — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:11:43 +0000

These are the musings of Brad Hemminger, as an outsider looking in, at the museum profession. I have been fortunate to observe and participate in the transition of three fields from analog media to digital media, caused by advances in information technology. First medicine, then libraries, and now museums. Based on my experience, museums are in early stages of this transition, and lots of exciting developments are occurring, with many of them being developed by people attending the 2009 Museums and Web conference.

40+ useful tweets in 4 days!: Twitter aggregation as a means of sharing community knowledge

dbear — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:16:02 +0000

I was a skeptic about twittering, seeing it as useless chatter, until in the weeks leading up to this year's conference, I found I was becoming a regular reader of twitter feeds tagged #MW2009 because they were producing one or two url's a day that were useful references.

Unconference discussion notes: Small museum staff, big ideas

Layla Masri — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:49:03 +0000

Our session was a lively discussion of the challenges faced my museums with small staffs and even smaller budgets:

Question: What is it that makes museums go this road?

kresin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:25:56 +0000

After two days of this conference I have a question that you might know how to asnwer. We've been hearing a lot about web & mobile appications, useability, affective interfaces, organisational change, wiki's, weblogs & mashups, using API's and cloudcomputing, revamping your website etc etc and this has all been very interesting.

Unconference Notes: Open Source for Mobile Devices

mwgilicinski — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:08:09 +0000

The following are the raw notes from the Unconference group: Open Source Mobile Device Software at MW2009 on April 16, 2009

We came up with a mantra: "Build for now, build fast since, build cheap"

First day Museums & the web

kresin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:52:41 +0000

Some personal observations & an impression on the first day of Museums & the Web - in Dutch - can be found here.

Flickr Commons: Our Most Popular Photo (by Views)

ryand — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:58:43 +0000

Click through for some interesting statistics about our most viewed photograph on The Commons..

Trick photo, decapitated man with bloody knife, holding his head

Accession Number: 1972:0014:0003

Maker: Unidentified

Title: Trick photo, decapitated man with bloody knife, holding his head

Date: ca. 1875

Medium: albumen print, photomontage

Gammal men bra nyhet – Brooklyn museums filmtävling

Marika — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:16:51 +0000

Under hösten 2007 genomförde Brooklyn Museum en videotävling för besökare där de inbjöds att på en minut, beskriva musset på sitt eget sätt. Filmerna publicerades på YouTube och bedömdes av en jury som bland annat bestod av MTV Music Televisions VD.

Vinnaren: Mr. Cool at the Brooklyn Museum av Andrei Severny / Charles Grantham
Andra pristagaren: Brooklyn Museum - Art Thief av by Matthew K.

25 random things about archives & museum informatics

jtrant — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:14:56 +0000

we were tagged by the IMA a while back, in the 25 random things 'chain letter' that's been haunting the web in its various incarnations. from the better-late-than-never school of thought comes our 25:

New study on factors that improve online experiences

ngamble — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:31 +0000

IDEA, the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement, just released “Finding Information: Factors that improve online experiences,” which reports the findings of a study that the California-based nonprofit organization conducted recently.

PDF- Now we have Web 2.0 tools, how do we use them?

dgreenfield — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:17:32 +0000

Several people asked for a copy of my presentation, so here is a pdf of it.
Thanks for the attending/participating!

Group Activity - Gail Durbin gets everyone 'working' in a workshop instead of just lurking!

Mark Hook — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:14:37 +0000

Conference delegates attending Gail Durbin's workshop were given two minutes to complete the first part of a task and the roar of creative ideas being born was almost deafening

Joining us up - or splitting up the web?

jon_pratty — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:18:31 +0000

Semantic Webs - and The Rest of the World

While Ross Parry is facilitating our SW workshop (Friday,
12.30 till 1.30) at MW 2008, the digital museum community in the UK is carrying
on the debate Ross opened up for comment in the session.

Web 2.0 data for my workshop

dgreenfield — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:57:30 +0000

I am developing a workshop on how we as professionals are using Web 2.0 "to expand a museum’s role by promoting new methods of collaboration within itself and with other museums and institutions" and am looking for examples that I can use in the dialogue. I created a wiki for this discussion at http://redberry.pbwiki.com/ (password is "share").

Please join the discussion!

From sharing cycles to sharing skills

dbear — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:03:43 +0000

In 1999, David Anderson launched Seti@home and with it a method of enlisting the underused cycles of PC's worldwide. While Seti still hasn't found any extra-terrestrial life, it did give birth to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) which Anderson established in 2002. The Economist, December 6 edition, reports that BOINC based computing supports several hundred CPU intensive scientific investigations and has recently been augmented to use PC graphic cards and Playstations for some graphically demanding processing.

The article also identifies some social applications of BOINC of interest to museums. Galaxy Zoo has employed more than 100,000 volunteers to examine the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to classify galaxies and Stardust@home is using volunteers to spot stellar tracks. The Manchester Museum has had volunteers cataloguing 12,000 herbaria specimens from the 19th century. Africa@home from the University of Geneva is enlisting volunteers to extract cartographic data on the location of roads, villages, fields etc. from satellite images.

Projects like these have led Anderson to launch a new platform he calls BOSSA (Berkeley Open System for Skills Aggregation) which he hopes will be lower the barrier to entry for such web-based knowledge sharing and collaboration projects. Check it out at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BossaIntro

Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) Specification

dbear — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:06:23 +0000

How can a web object have a defined meaning in the context of the objects discovered at the same site, a group of different objects with which it was sold at auction, and yet other objects displayed in the same museum exhibition years later, when each of the individual objects will have one or many URI’s and representations on the Web?

How, in other words, can the meanings of different aggregations of digital objects be retained over time?

An Open Content Museum of World Culture

dbear — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:32:06 +0000

Last week while we were giving a technology workshop at the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) annual conference, the power of the observation that culture is additive, that cultural artifacts gain meaning as well as significance by being seen in the context of other, similar, artifacts from within and outside the culture, and that the digital world offers us the opportunity to bring dispersed cultural objects together, was self-evident. Here were hundreds of generally small museums, in diasporic communities throughout North America, that each held a tiny portion of the story of American Jewry. If only they could aggregate it – each telling their local story, yet each contributing to the larger picture of what Jewish culture means in America; and of course, they could.