Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

Museums and the web 2013

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How to Win an Art Prize Without Making a Thing: QR codes, Classifications and Controversy

Susan Cairns, The University of Newcastle, Australia

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How to Win an Art Prize Without Making a Thing: QR codes, Classifications, and Controversy

How to Win an Art Prize Without Making a Thing: QR codes, Classifications, and Controversy

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Classification
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controversy
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Augmented Reality (AR)
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QR codes
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art prize
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A growing number of museums have begun to seize upon the possibilities of Quick Response (QR) codes linked to electronic records and multimedia as a way to augment in-gallery information. QR codes seem to provide museums with a simple and accessible way of providing additional in situ information about objects. However, access does not necessarily lead to engagement.

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Demonstration - show your project
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http://www.classifyme2.com
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Susan Cairns
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Mixing It Up: Developing and Implementing a Tagging System for a Content-Rich Website Which Uses Aggregated Content from Multiple Sources

Andrew Lewis, Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom

http://beta.vam.ac.uk

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In 2009, the Victoria and Albert Museum website had a very large amount of in-depth content including museum content and user-generated features. This presented a challenge in connecting users with site content that they may not have been aware of. In January 2011, the Museum made live a beta version of its redesigned website which aimed to address this issue. The new site moved away from a hierarchical navigation model to a dynamic concept-driven one. This aimed to collect and present content relevant to the user's subject of interest. A central method in achieving this was the development of a tagging system to classify Web content so that it would aggregate as required. This paper looks at the reality of developing and implementing a bespoke tagging system that could be effective for users yet simple enough to use for staff who are not specialist classifiers. The human issues for staff in developing the system are discussed, with some early results and feedback from the early beta-testing period. It is hoped the paper will offer insight into what happens in practice when using tagging for real on a live website.

Keywords: tagging, content, staff, classification, management

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Mixing it up: Experiences of managing and displaying aggregated content from multiple sources, combining editorial selection, subject classification using tagging and automated retrieval.

Linking Text and Image Databases in GENREG: A Multi-media Museum Management at the National Museum of Denmark

Rold, L. (1997).  Linking Text and Image Databases in GENREG: A Multi-media Museum Management at the National Museum of Denmark. Museum Interactive Multimedia 1997: cultural heritage systems design and interfaces. Selected Papers from ichim97.