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UK Museums on the Web program online: 19 June 2008
UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008
19 June 2008
Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester [campus map]
organised by the Museums Computer Group
sponsored by Culture 24
How (and why) should museums connect their online collections?
- Should
museums pursue a policy of standardised and heavyweight national
integration, or a mixed portfolio of more localised lightweight
solutions? - Should the sector continue to plan for users
visiting museum Web sites, or is the future instead of more agnostic
usage of distributed content? - Might semantic technologies (rather than a ‘Semantic Web’) hold part of the answer?
- And
what role is there for non-sector partners and specialist (perhaps
commercial) Web services in making museum collections discoverable and
useful online?
By drawing together an impressive
range of national and international speakers, from academia, from
industry and from the sector, this year’s UK Museums on the Web
conference explores how a raft of new projects and initiatives are
beginning to take museums into a new era of online integration.
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.45-9.30 | Registration and coffee Henry Wellcome Building foyer |
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| 9.30-9.45 | Welcome and introduction |
Ross Parry (University of Leicester) Jane Finnis(Culture 24) |
| 9.45-10.15 | Keynote SpeechTom joined Ofcom in September 2007 - previously he was at the forefront of much of the BBC's new media strategy since joining the corporation in 2001 as Head of Broadband. He co-authored 'Building Public Value', the BBC's strategic vision for the next ten years, and also lead a major review of the BBC's activities on the Web. |
Tom Loosemore Senior Advisor, Digital Media (Ofcom) |
| 10.15-11.15 | SESSION 1Joined up thinking | - |
| How does the Web connect content? | Lee Iverson (University of British Columbia | |
| How should collections connect online? | Paul Marty (Florida State University) | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee break | - |
| 11.45-1.00 | SESSION 2Sector-wide initiatives | - |
| The National Museums Online Learning Project | Carolyn Royston (NMOLP) | |
| The European Digital Library | Jeremy Ottevanger (Museum of London Group | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Buffet lunch providedin the Henry Wellcome Building foyer - hosted by The Collections Trust | - |
| 2.00-2.45 | SESSION 3Next-generation approaches | - |
| Sharing museum collections through Flickr | George Oates (Flickr) | |
| 2.45-3.35 | SESSION 4Quick-and-light solutions | - |
| Different ways of seeing online collections | Fiona Romeo (National Maritime Museum) | |
| The guerilla approach to aggregating online collections | Frankie Roberto (The Science Museum) | |
| Results from the the MCG 'Mashed Museum' day | Mike Ellis (Eduserv) | |
| 3.35-4.00 | Afternoon tea and cake | - |
| 4.00-5.00 | SESSION 5Here-and-now decisions | - |
| The Integrated Architecture Project | Jane Finnis (Culture 24)Nick Poole (The Collections Trust) | |
| Then taking their lead from some recent key threads on the MCG discussion list, a final panel session will identify and discuss the key choices (both technical and strategic) now facing the sector. |
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| 5.00-5.15 | Take homes from the day | - |
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