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It's not always about the technology
This is an interestiong blog post from Giv Parvaneh, technical manager for the National Museums Online Learning Project (NMOLP).
It's a good response to some of the papers that are being presented at MW09 where organisational challenges are being overlooked and too much emphasis is being put on technology.
http://www.givp.org/2009/02/09/its-not-always-about-the-technology/
I'll be talking more about NMOLP at the conference. I look forward to discussing the project with you.
Hi Giv just read your article. I'm very interested to find out more about the online learning project and just how willing the museums were to allow visitor feedback, tagging etc. I'm delving into the whole subject for a dissertation. Are you UK based? Is there anyone in particular I should be talking to at the V&A? Appreciate any gudance you can give. YHH
hi Carolyn,
i just posted a comment on Giv's post -- where i saw many echos of our experiences with AMICO, and many other collaborative projects.
i don't know if you saw, but there's a Changing Organizations session at MW2009, at which just these kinds of questions will be the focus.
discussion at Museums and the Web tends to swing back and forth between
policy/planning and practice -- but our requirement that things be
'real' may preclude some kinds of papers, along with some reluctance to
write about organizational challenges. that's one of the reasons for unconference sessions this year.
/jt
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