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Re: Recording audio
April 22, 2013 - 4:00amHi Linda,
We've done some simple recording using a Zoom recorder and a mic with a
push to talk button, there's an auto track function on the recorder so that
each contribution ends up on it's own track - it was a fairly simple way of
doing things
D
On 21 April 2013 08:53, Gavin Brockis wrote: [...]
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Re: Recording audio
April 21, 2013 - 3:53amHi Linda
I have done a lot of audio recording of oral history etc. For simple 'snaphot' recording the onboard Voice Recorder app is fine, or something like BlueFire, but for more sophisticated features, editing and processing Garageband for iOS is excellent.
Dragon Dictation is a good choice for speech-to-text, or you could try YouTube's machine transcription service. [...]
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Recording audio
April 20, 2013 - 2:43amDear All
Hoping to pick you collective brains...
Has anyone recorded (as an audio file) any short oral histories / visitors comments using an iPad or similar?
Can anyone recommend any software or app to convert audio to text?
We want to set up a mobile audio booth in the gallery but it's not something I've done before so any pointers would be most gratefully received. [...]
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Tickets now available for our Spring event, Engaging Visitors Through Play, Belfast, May 30
April 19, 2013 - 12:45pmDear MCGers,
the MCG Committee are delighted to announce that tickets are now available
for our Spring event, Engaging Visitors Through Play. Hosted by the
University of Ulster's Centre for Media Research, Engaging Visitors Through
Play will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on May 30, 2013. Book now
at http://mcgplay-mcglist.eventbrite.com
A symposium showcasing local talent and international best practice, this
event will provide delegates with a platform from which to explore how
their museum could use games and play to create meaningful visitor
engagement. It will provide game developers with an insight into emerging
opportunities to work with museums [...]
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National Library of Scotland - Wikimedian in Residence
April 19, 2013 - 11:01amHi
My pals at National Library of Scotland have asked me to circulate this.
Tessa
*** apologies for cross posting. Please forward this email to other lists as appropriate***
An exciting opportunity has arisen!
National Library of Scotland in collaboration with Wikimedia is seeking to appoint Scotland's first ever Wikimedian in Residence for a period of 4 months. This is a unique opportunity to help enrich and develop Wikipedia with information about the Library's collections and knowledge from its staff. The Wikimedian in Residence will work with NLS staff, the library community, members of the public and researchers to encourage [...]
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Digital culture research project (CATH) – seedfunding available
April 19, 2013 - 10:25amDear MCGers,
The University of Birmingham and University of Leicester are launching a scheme to create 3-way partnerships between their academics, cultural organisations and commercial companies.
As part of the scheme (funded by the AHRC) 16 different partnerships will each receive £4K in seed-funding to develop new digital prototypes.
The CATH launch is in Birmingham on 15 May (http://cathlaunch.eventbrite.com/), which will be an opportunity for cultural organisations and companies to meet with academics from the two universities, and to begin to form some of the potential partnerships. [...]
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'Reel to Real' archival sound website launched
April 19, 2013 - 9:44am***
Dear All,
'Reel to Real' is a sound curating project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, designed to catalogue, digitise and make available online, in gallery spaces and beyond the Pitt Rivers Museum's unique archival field recordings. The content of the recordings ranges from spirits singing in the rainforests of the Central African Republic to children's songs and games in playgrounds throughout Europe. [...]
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Europeana Inside
April 19, 2013 - 6:59amDear all,
I write on behalf of the Europeana Inside project. Our second newsletter is out!
The aim of Europeana Inside http://www.europeana-inside.eu is to help cultural institutions and aggregators overcome barriers opening up content by part-automating the workflow of delivering collections metadata to Europeana and creating a toolkit - the Europeana Connection Kit - for the management of the data. [...]
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Re: Visiting museums via your phone
April 18, 2013 - 5:14pmI was an employee of the BBC's online department just over 10 years ago and I remember those people well! They did prevail for a bit when political pressure got our budgets slashed.
We had deja vu thanks to those types via the Brighton Argus when we released the Brighton Museums app! But there were some nice rebuttals from other readers thankfully. [...]
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Re: Visiting museums via your phone
April 18, 2013 - 4:43pmTen years ago the same people were probably up in arms that tax-payers'
money was funding the BBC to put stuff on the web, but now it's that
digital technology that has allowed those same people to share their
ignorance and narrow-mindedness rather than just bore themselves with it!
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James Morley
www.jamesmorley.net / @jamesinealing
www.whatsthatpicture.com / @PhotosOfThePast
www.apennypermile.com / @APennyPerMile
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Visiting museums via your phone
April 18, 2013 - 4:06pmDear all
Please read this and in particular make sure you read the comments.
Knowing that you have read them too will help me cope with the burden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22203498
yours
Mike
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Re: visual timeline ideas
April 18, 2013 - 3:30pmAnd another one I just stumbled across - DPLA have a nice one that's not
just presentational but acts as an alternative interface into their
collections (or rather their content providers' collections).
e.g. http://dp.la/timeline?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=daguerre#/?year=1839
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James Morley
www.jamesmorley.net / @jamesinealing
www.whatsthatpicture.com / @PhotosOfThePast
www.apennypermile.com / @APennyPerMile
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Mia wrote:
> I'm a bit late to the discussion, but some people like Tiki-Toki (
> http://www.tiki-toki.com/) or Neatline's timelines + maps combination (
> http://neatline.org/).
>
> A lot depends on the final audience and on whether you've got an existing
> [...]
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What makes for a good museum website?
April 18, 2013 - 12:23pmDear MCGers,
there seem to be a number of conversations about 'what's the point of
museum websites?' and 'what do you want from a museum website?' at the
moment and I thought it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts. (And that
does mean *you* - there are over 1000 of you on this list, it'd be lovely
to hear some new voices chipping in too :) [...]
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Re: visual timeline ideas
April 18, 2013 - 11:08amI'm a bit late to the discussion, but some people like Tiki-Toki (
http://www.tiki-toki.com/) or Neatline's timelines + maps combination (
http://neatline.org/).
A lot depends on the final audience and on whether you've got an existing
set of content you'd like to re-use rather than re-creating within new
software. For example, Viewshare now works with content published as JSON
but that's only useful if you can easily publish data from spreadsheets or
collections systems in that format. [...]
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Re: DAM systems integration with CMS databases
April 17, 2013 - 7:39amThank you to all to all who contacted me, if I have not done so already I shall reply to you all in due course.
Tony Harris
New Media Officer & Photographer
Government Art Collection
0044 (0)20 7580 9123
www.gac.culture.gov.uk
www.facebook.com/governmentartcollection
www.youtube.com/user/GACpodcasts
Revealed: Government Art Collection brings together nearly 200 works spanning the breadth of the Collection from 16th century to the present at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery until 24 February 2013 and then touring to Ulster Museum, Belfast from 15 March to 9 June 2013. Find out more at www.gac.culture.gov.uk
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Job posting: Web Producer at Wellcome Library, London
April 17, 2013 - 7:16amHello all
We are recruiting a Web Producer for a 2-year fixed term contract. Can you help get the word out?
Who we are and who we're looking for:
The Wellcome Library is one of the world's major libraries for the study of medical history. We are developing a world-class online resource for the history of medicine by digitising a substantial proportion of our holdings and making the content freely available on the web. [...]
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Thank you - visual timeline ideas
April 17, 2013 - 3:47amDear All, Thanks for the many pointers and ideas. We shall digest and ponder.
Cheers, Linda
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Re: Lovely new tech with lots of museum possibilities [Scanned]
April 16, 2013 - 8:53amWow. That's ace. Thanks John!
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Re: Lovely new tech with lots of museum possibilities [Scanned]
April 16, 2013 - 8:24amDrooling! I wonder what the captured image quality is like though?
I can immediately see an application for this where people bring in their
old photos and document which get 'instantly' digitised and then they can
drag and drop them into collections, onto virtual maps, timelines etc and
with a hard or soft keyboard add titles, captions, notes - digitisation and
data capture all in one seamless activity. [...]
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Re: visual timeline ideas
April 16, 2013 - 7:39amGreat to see such interest in interactive visual timelines here! This is the subject of my PhD which I am undertaking at the Royal College of Art, supervised by Stephen Boyd Davis and in collaboration with System Simulation.
We are working on interactive timelines, which we are considering not only as a means for presenting data, but also as a tool for examining and discovering patterns and relationships through time. We feel that there could be a lot more gained from exploring collections in visual timelines than is possible with current interactive timelines. [...]
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