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kaliya's posted her slides

jtrant — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:04:08 +0000

kaliya has posted her slides about user-centric identity. you can find them on her blog at

http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/Iwoman/?p=568

/jt

j. trant archives & museum informatics www.archimuse.com

Closing Plenary Panel

jtrant — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:54:43 +0000

We're looking forward to the closing plenary session -- though not to the end of the conference! We've invited a few people to kick-start a discussion about what we've learned over the conference, what we we want to 'take away', what issues we still need to face, and what we're hoping to see in the next year.

So, as you're exploring all the activity in the sessions today and tomorrow, keep some notes about things you want to highlight. Friday's break-outs are great, but we can't all be everywhere.

Panelists will be:

David Rumsey, Cartography Associates
Kaliya, Identity Woman
Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jason Ediger, Apple Computer
Seb Chan, Powerhouse Museum

And then there's lots of time for contributions from the floor.

jennifer

Further Thoughts

BrianKelly — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:40:55 +0000

I'd endorse the two previous comments Mike Ellis and ThT.

Web 2.0 is happening - and we need to enage with it. I therefore suggest that, as well as making use of blogs and wikis to support the museums community, next year's conference should wencourage sumissions which address strategies for overcoming institutional inertia.

And, as ThT said, many thanks to David and Jennifer for organising such a sucecssful conference.

Brian Kelly, UKOLN

thoughts..

dmje — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:27:09 +0000

1. OpenID. Hurray.
2. Stop worrying: work quicker, think less, lose the fear
3. Our stuff is no longer solid, but nebulous. This is to be embraced, not feared. Get it out there through whatever (and multiple) means possible.
4. Increasingly, our content consumers won't care that we're a museum. Get used to it.

Challenges in Building the Social and Participatory Web

ThT — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:31:05 +0000

In my view it needs a participatory community of museum professionals to master the challenges in the social and participatory Web.

At the conference I learned a lot about

tools
difficulties & barriers (e.g. institutional)
successful initiatives & projects
great projects in progress
communities

in museums & institutions
with visitors, users, ...
user communities somewhere in the Web

and the conference focussed all these topics very well as I see it.

BUT the conference community will come apart soon.

My vision is, to have a platform for a participatory and collaborative community of museum professionals to live a participatory culture.

Out there in the World Wild Web there is a "baby" waiting for it's ʻohana to grow up with. The name of the baby is MuseumsWiki and if many of you join this wiki, it may grow to that platform I've been talking about. I'm looking forward to meet you there to move on with all the topics (and more) of the conference.

Many thanks to Jennifer and David for the wonderful conference organization, and greetings to all I had the opportunity to talk with.

ThT