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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.

Hey so will any of us museum web nerds be Twitter-ing during the conference?

Before my workshop I'm looking at how Yahoo Pipes works. Is there anyone at MW 07 who has used this interesting new setup?

I've always been a fan of Google and I make it a point to try out pretty much anything they release, so it made sense to make my own map in Google Maps. So what to map?

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?

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.

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To post a link and thus to relate two or more contents is a basic method to create a freely accessible and modular network of personal associations on the World Wide Web. The act of linking, which has come to be one of the most common cultural practices on the Internet and which is a simplified version of the copy/paste-technique, creates new contexts on Web-based platforms, personal homepages, blogs and last but not least (art-)databases.

Yet, what if a link turns into the representative of the artefact, the context and the exhibition at once?

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

In autumn 2006 the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) released the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D, and Narrative Animations.