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We’ve finally got the Collection online!!!

Conxa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:00:30 +0000

After more than two years’ hard work it’s a great pleasure to be able to offer a first online version of the database of the Picasso Museum’s catalogue, with more than two thousand works.

5 ideas from “The Museum of the 21st century” talk between Directors of Tate & British

Conxa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:02:50 +0000

Yesterday in London, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum and Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, discussed about the Museum of the 21st Century in front of an audience of 500, at the London School of Economics. The event was coorganized with Thames & Hudson.

Fluid Engage: my intro as a project advisor

jtrant — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:54:56 +0000

two things that i would like to bring to Fluid Engage :

prior art [we've thought about a lot of these questions before, though we might not have solved the problems - see Bibliography at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum ]
apis as means of inter-application linkages [see for example http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/04/16/the-brooklyn-museum-api-qa-wit... ]

web pages i showed:

Archives & Museum Informatics [our home page]
http://www.archimuse.com/

Museum jobs: a summary

jtrant — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:32:21 +0000

when talking to some of the developers at the Fluid Engage project team meeting today (i'm on the Advisory Committee), i realised that an introduction to the way that museums are organized, and what kinds of people do which kinds of jobs, would be helpful.

Social Media Developments in the World of Museums

coolinsights — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:39:03 +0000

Clay Shirky speaks at the Smithsonian (courtesy of taoboy)

MASKED EXHIBITION CREATED BY MASTER STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

Enkhnaran — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:54:06 +0000

Collective 2.0 minds

Conxa — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:04:05 +0000

Wow, I've my mind so full of ideas, new knowledge, new contacts!!. That's the energizing part of attending mw (always so, but this year, particularly intense).

Pathways through the permanent collections

arkrausehardie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:55:34 +0000

I was just listening to conversations in the Organizational Change session about how to help people navigate through the permanent collections of the museum, the value of hand held devices, audio tours, etc.

This inspired a thought about my fantasy pathway.

The museum would take the keywords that curators and visitors have assigned to objects both in virtual and real spaces, keywords that are qualitative, as well as experiential, and feeling, that I could then use to navigate my way to other objects with the same or perhaps opposite types of tags.

Culture Geeks March Talk: 'eHive - the CMS revolution reaches the museum sector'

val.cartei — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:23:14 +0000

When: Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 8:00pm
Where: the Regency Town House
13 Brunswick Square
Hove, England BN31EH
Get Directions

Culture Geeks is a community based in Brighton, open to everyone who is interested in using digital technologies in the cultural sector.

THE TALK

Wikipedia Loves Art

jtrant — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:16:23 +0000

Shelley Bernstein has just announced an initiative to help illustrate Wikipedia articles: Wikipedia Loves Art. Part scavenger hunt, part photography contest, it's involving community in the visual documentation of museum collectons, and enhancing Wikipedia entries. A far cry from being banned for linking into museum web sites!

Job: Program Manager, Interactive Educational Technologies at SFMOMA

psamis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:49:39 +0000

One of the key positions in the SFMOMA IET team has just opened up: the Program Manager, IET. Read on for details.

Best,
Peter Samis - Associate Curator, Interpretation

Museums and the Web Benchmarking Survey: Time for an Update

jtrant — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:05:16 +0000

Some time ago – in 2005 – Archives & Museum Informatics launched a survey of museum web activities. We noted then that:

Each financial cycle museum Webmasters struggle
to justify their budget requests. Whenever statistical reports are
circulated someone asks, "How do we compare?" When exploring the
benefits of a new function, Web teams ask themselves "Is it worth the
investment?" Answers to these questions are hard to come by.

[see http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/index.html for the full background]

This survey – the results of which are written up at http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/report/mwbenchmarks2005.html – was designed to help fill some of the voids in our knowledge. As a first stab at the problem we realise that it wasn't perfect. And things have changed since 2005!

We've been asked to update the survey for a client-group of museums, and thought we'd use the opportunity to ask for input from the community as well. If we're going to launch it again more broadly, we'd like it to be useful to you ...

So, please, take a look at the questions – available as a PDF from http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/MW-Survey05.pdf – and post your thoughts on revisions or additional questions here.

Media Arts Scotland has announced a Twitterist in Residence

jtrant — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:22:41 +0000

During the month of July, 2008, you can follow Netwurker Mez as she explores the artistic potential of Twitter. She's New Media Scotalnd's second Twitterer in residence.

Follow Netwurker Mez's tweets at http://www.twitter.com/mediascot

Anyone else doing fun twitter things?

/jt

overlooked at AAM: the MUSE awards announced

jtrant — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:51:24 +0000

The MUSE awards were announced at AAM this week, and the list represents an interesting overview of museum technology activity.

Here's a project that wasn't recognised [something that surprised me a bit]: The milti-touch tables at the Denver Art Museum.

What are the [core] functions of a museum web site?

jtrant — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:08:43 +0000

david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science .... it's got me wondering about what the 'general, intelligent reader' might want to know about museums and the web.

i'm thinking we need to answer the following questions:

Nonprofit IT Staffing: Budgets, Salaries, Training and Planning; a new report

jtrant — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:40:17 +0000

The second part of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) report on information technology in Not for Profits is now available. Nonprofit IT Staffing: Budgets, Salaries, Training and Planning reports the results of a USA national survey.

Findings of the second Nonprofit IT Staffing Report include:

New York Times on Social Tagging and Art

jtrant — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:34:52 +0000

there was an article in the New York Times this week about social tagging and art that focuses on tagging as a way to bridge the gap between museums as institutions as museum-goers as individuals. when museum professionals talk about introducing people to the collections, their thoughts turn to tours, or slide-shows, or other packaged information products that force visitors' self-identification as a 'beginner". And who wants define themselves as a newbie?

Museums and Technology Workshop at CAJM, Toronto

jtrant — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:09:02 +0000

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.

Map of Museums in Libya Thanks to Web2.0 Tools

lamusediffuse — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:49:30 +0000

These last days we have been very busy trying to find information about museums in Libya. At the end, and thanks to web2.0 tools such as Flickr, we have ellaborate a map of museums in that country.

Unfortunately, the International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM) is not including information about Libyan Museums in its website. However, they are wonderful institutions which specifically need of more visibility to be recongnized as they should be in the international landscape. That is the reason why we have elaborated this map which gathers and places all museums we are aware of.

Thanks to Web2.0 tools it is our pleasure to share this map of Libyan Museums with all of you. You can find more information in our blog e-artcasting and in e-artcasting Photoproject, where you can also add your comments as well as tags to the image.

steve.museum gets imls funding

jtrant — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:17:08 +0000

The IMLS announced today that the steve.museum application to the National Leadership Grants was successful. We'll be exploring whether social tagging and folksonomy can improve access to art museum collections on-line.

We're excited!

Researching Social Tagging and Folksonomy in Art Museums

Abstract
Can social tagging and folksonomy improve access to art museum collections on-line? Our two-year research project (October 2006–September 2008) is designed to answer this question.

There are now millions of works of art from museums on the Web.

Trust, audience and community: museums, libraries and identity

jtrant — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:06:48 +0000