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Re: Drupal partners - recommendations needed
June 11, 2013 - 11:51amHi Angie
Not sure if they fit the bill size wise, but I did a project with
http://www.miggle.co.uk/ last year and found them pretty good.
Cheers.
Jason
Jason Webber
Web Content Manager (Collections)
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London EC2Y 5HN
Tel: 020 7814 5587
Email: jwebber@museumoflondon.org.uk
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Don't miss our special exhibitions:
The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels, Museum of London (11 October 2013 - 27 April 2014) http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/cheapside
Estuary, Museum of London Docklands (17 May - 27 October 2013) http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/estuary [...]
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Drupal partners - recommendations needed
June 11, 2013 - 11:46amHello
We're on the hunt for a Drupal partner who can build sites and provide all the supporting services (hosting and maintenance etc). We'd rather go with a medium to large provider.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Many thanks
Angie
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Job posting: Web Producer, Wellcome Library
June 11, 2013 - 5:09amHello all
I'm reposting this job with fingers crossed that the second time's a charm.
Wellcome Library (London, UK) is recruiting a Web Producer for a 2-year fixed term contract - do you or someone you know fit the bill? Please share with anyone you know who might be qualified and interested. Please note that this position is not currently listed online, but I can provide application details and a position description on request, or answer any questions you might have about this new role.
Who we're seeking:
We're looking for a self-motivated, detail-oriented web producer who is enthusiastic about [...]
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Job posting: Web Content Manager at the RSC (maternity cover) [Scanned]
June 11, 2013 - 4:41amDear all
A maternity cover job doing web content has come up at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.
To apply go to: http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/work/vacancies.aspx
JOB DESCRIPTION
Reference Number
RSC0294
Location
Stratford-upon-Avon, Chapel Lane Offices
Department
Press & Communications
PURPOSE
To drive the creation of compelling digital content across the organisation, ensure audience experiences online are coherent, supporting brand, reputation and audience engagement and to encourage and increase audience engagement.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES [...]
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Re: Free Use of Museum Images
June 11, 2013 - 1:27amColin
Not sure if I've missed some of the debate around this but here goes....
Can you clarify what you mean?
What sort of size images are you looking at?
What do you mean by download?
Our Black Country History website provides access to over 35,000 images with a CC by nc licence. By access I mean users are free to save images using the functionality of their browser, there is no download this image link. Also the images are only 600 pixels wide so we aren't talking about high resolution images. [...]
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Bruce McLean is not an archivist...!
June 10, 2013 - 2:50pmThe leading British artist, Bruce McLean has released an extract of a new film work, Archiving The New. The piece was produced especially for an event launching an important new publication, All This Stuff: Archiving The Artist, which took place at the White Cube Gallery, Bermondsey on May 23rd 2013. [...]
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Re: Free Use of Museum Images
June 10, 2013 - 1:06pmOliver,
Just wait a week or so and all will be revealed.
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Vicars-Harris"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Free Use of Museum Images
>I wanted to pick up on Colin's question on Friday and the replies from
> Jeremy and David surrounding what museums are offering in terms of
> free high resolution image downloads.
>
> Moving beyond free access to images for non-commercial use, does anybody
> know of any notable examples of institutions in the UK offering free use
> of
> images [...]
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Re: Free Use of Museum Images
June 10, 2013 - 12:50pmI wanted to pick up on Colin's question on Friday and the replies from
Jeremy and David surrounding what museums are offering in terms of
free high resolution image downloads.
Moving beyond free access to images for non-commercial use, does anybody
know of any notable examples of institutions in the UK offering free use of
images under a more open CC BY license in the way we are starting to see
emerging in the US? [...]
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Re: Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples
June 10, 2013 - 10:31amAnd another one - highly organised but then they are a much bigger organisation....
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Subject: Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples
Hi Mark,
Here at IWM, social media is coordinated by many people across departments, with the Digital Media department at the helm. [...]
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Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples
June 10, 2013 - 9:35amHi Mark,
Here at IWM, social media is coordinated by many people across departments, with the Digital Media department at the helm.
We use a Basecamp Writeboard for our content plans. Various members from our Marketing, Retail, Collections and Learning teams have access to the Writeboard and can go in and update it. We generally try to plan at least 2-3 months ahead, giving ample lead time for things that we know will be big topics of conversation on social media (e.g. D-Day), fleshing out those plans along the way. [...]
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INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION: Classification & Visualization, The Hague, 24-25 October 2013
June 10, 2013 - 8:44am*Apologies for cross-posting*
=== INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ===
International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification& Visualization:
Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in
the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague
Conference website:http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.
The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of
application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream
bibliographic and documentary classifications. [...]
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SV: Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples?
June 10, 2013 - 7:04amHi,
This is a Scandinavian example:
At the Nordiska museet in Stockholm, Sweden, we have an interdepartmental team since January 2012. It is made up of people from Marketing, New media (me), Collections (Archives and Library) and Education.
There are so far only pros. Our activities in social media are growing every month and we: [...]
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Re: Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples?
June 10, 2013 - 6:49amHi Mark
RAMM is a local authority museum and only six of us can view social media which makes coordination a challenge!
The two of us who contribute to social media are in the content and collections team. The museums manager, marketing manager, publicity assistant and designer have access to social media too. [...]
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Social media output coordinatinated by an interdepartmental team. Any examples?
June 10, 2013 - 6:37amHello all,
Has anyone got experience or examples of a museum's social media output being coordinated by an interdepartmental team (comprised of staff from PR, collections, exhibitions, education etc.)?
I'm interested in hearing about any experiences and examples, including successes and failures, pros and cons.
Mark Maguire
Assistant Curator: Education & Community
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital
Military Road
Kilmainham
Dublin 8
Republic of Ireland [...]
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Re: Free Use of Museum Images
June 10, 2013 - 5:44amWhat's the rationale, separately, for each of NC and ND?
How many of these are digital reproductions of artworks which are
themselves out of copyright?
On Jun 10, 2013 9:00 AM, "David Saywell" wrote:
>
> Colin
>
> We currently have 51,994 images available under a Creative Commons (CC
BY-NC-ND) licence. As cataloguing and digitising our collection is ongoing,
the figure increases on a weekly basis when we refresh our licensing
databases feeding the website. We also currently provide registered
academics free access to 88,475 images. Both are self-service options
available from the 'Use this image' link next [...]
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Engaging Visitors Through Play
June 10, 2013 - 4:58amHi AllAs some of you will know the MCG Spring Meeting 'Engaging Visitors Through Play' was held in Belfast a few weeks ago, below are few blog posts about the day which may be of interest:
MCG Guest blog post by Mairead Quinn http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2013/06/10/engaging-visitors-through-play/ Blog post by Mia Ridge http://openobjects.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/engaging-visitors-through-play-museums.htmlBlog post by Alex Moseley http://moerg.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/engaging-visitors-through-play/
Alex Moseley has kindly shared the game he created for the event with the MCG community, info on how to play can be found on his blog http://moerg.wordpress.com/curate-a-fact/ and game cards can be found on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k0ukji23jn1jl7x/M6vx_bIKpt/Cards
We are currently editing videos of all the [...]
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Re: Free Use of Museum Images
June 10, 2013 - 4:00amColin
We currently have 51,994 images available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. As cataloguing and digitising our collection is ongoing, the figure increases on a weekly basis when we refresh our licensing databases feeding the website. We also currently provide registered academics free access to 88,475 images. Both are self-service options available from the 'Use this image' link next to each portrait in our Search the Collection facility. [...]
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MCG's Museums on the Web 2013: call for papers
June 9, 2013 - 8:56amThe Museums Computer Group’s 2013 Museums on the Web conference will
be held at Tate Modern on 15 November 2013. The theme for UKMW13 is
‘Power to the people’.
We are interested in proposals on topics such as:
* projects that integrate public participation and core museum work,
including crowdsourcing, citizen science, citizen history and other
forms of participation and engagement
* grassroots digital projects, whether people organising themselves to
save museums or find innovative uses for museum collections and
knowledge
* enabling museum staff to learn and play with digital technologies
and platforms
* the rise of director-level and [...]
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How technology benefits learning
June 8, 2013 - 9:36amHello, I am currently doing a masters in museum studies and this seems to be a great place to find out information. I was wondering if anybody could point me in the direction of information that shows the importance of technology in museum learning with particular focus on young children and young adults. Any help would be extremely grateful.
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'Giving up the Archive?' study day - Full Programme
June 8, 2013 - 7:15amWe now have full details of our programme for the 1 July 'Giving up the Archive?' study day on the archives of arts organisations - see details and information on booking below:
Giving up the archive?
Reflections on the creation, examination and dissemination of arts organisations’ archives.
Many arts organisations are interested in locating and exploring their archival heritage. What are the driving forces behind this interest? How much archive material survives, where and in what condition? What can archives tell us about the history of these organisations and how important are they to their contemporary activities? This study day [...]
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