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Archiving Flickr and Other Websites of Interest to Museums

ryand — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:32:39 +0000

MW2012

Ryan Donahue, George Eastman House and Aaron Straup Cope, General layabout / SBHS

Abstract

Program Item Reference:

Preserving Flickr and Other Sites of Interest to Museums

Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got

digitalopps — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:51:04 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

interactive

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

digital

Keywords:

low-cost multimedia

Keywords:

digital exhibits

Keywords:

development

Abstract:

IGOR (Interactive Galleries On Request) is a content development and deployment tool that enables museums to quickly and easily create four types of digital exhibit: touchscreen interactive, multi-video player, captioned slideshow and RSS viewer.

IGOR has been created with museums firmly in mind and is designed to enable museum staff to build their own exhibits, without recourse to expensive outsourcing. It brings digital exhibits within the reach of smaller museums - and allows larger museums to create simple, compelling exhibits for a fraction of the traditional cost, thus freeing up budgets for other, bigger, digital projects.

In this briefing, Digital Opportunities Director, Ian Smith - who has nearly 20 years experience in the heritage sector - will demonstrate how museums of all sizes can use IGOR to maximise their digital impact.

And for fun, Ian will use IGOR build a simple interactive from scratch in 15 minutes!

Type:

Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only

Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got

Site:

http://www.digitalopps.co.uk/igor/

Authors:

Ian Smith

SDNHM Tour and Digitization Discussion

Rich Cherry — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:03:07 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

tour

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

science

Keywords:

natural history

Abstract:

San Diego Natural History Museum

Take a special behind-the-scenes look at the Museum’s Research Library with the Library’s curator. Learn about the digitization project underway to put selections from the Rare Book Room collection, fine art collection, and archives online in order to share some of the Museum's most unique treasures with the public. Also take a tour of the Museum’s permanent exhibition, Fossil Mysteries, guided by one of our paleontologists. The exhibition travels through a 75-million-year timeline, from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, to explore the prehistory of southern California and Baja California, Mexico.

Type:

Other Interaction - describe in notes

Tour 1: Balboa Park Museums

Site:

http://www.sdnhm.org

Authors:

Cary Canning

Tour 1: Balboa Park Museums

Rich Cherry — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:38:40 +0000

Type:

Tour

Conference:

MW2012

Programs:

Mopa Tour and New Media Briefing

SDNHM Tour and Digitization Discussion

Old Globe Tour and Stage Technology briefing

Tech Level:

All

Date & Time:

April 10, 2012 - 7:30am - 5:00pm

Location:

offsite

tour

museum

behind the scenes

backstage

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Get a behind-the-scenes tour of the museums and technology of Balboa Park. The Park is the nation's largest urban cultural park.

CAM St. Louis App

aelmestad — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

cam

Keywords:

app

Keywords:

st. louis

Keywords:

contemporary

Keywords:

art

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

toky

Keywords:

branding

Keywords:

CMS

Keywords:

iphone

Keywords:

camstl

Abstract:

Do you want to engage with the most innovative and relevant art being made today? There’s an App for that. As a non-collecting institution, the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis focuses its efforts on featuring local, national and international, well-known and newly established artists from diverse backgrounds, working in all types of media. With an intense schedule of ever-changing exhibitions in the Main Galleries and Front Room mixed with diverse public programs, ongoing educational programs, and hip social events, an App is the logical tool for today’s museum visitor.

The CAM App is the first of its kind and functions on a local, regional, and national level. Utilizing the GPS of the iPhone, the CAM App provides users with a unique experience each time they launch the App. If launched within the museum, the interface is designed to act as an accessible tool that will help visitors navigate the aesthetic and conceptual landscape of contemporary art. With this App, users will be able to embark on a self-guided digital tour of CAM’s exhibitions currently on view. With each visit, the user will be able to move around the space, watch a video tour with architect Brad Cloepfil, listen to the Director speak about the history of the museum, and explore the mission and nature of CAM as a non-collecting institution with Chief Curator Dominic Molon. Continuing the self-guided tour, users can also listen as CAM curators introduce the work on view. As visitors explore the artworks, they will actually be able to see and hear the artist(s) talk about specific pieces featured in the current exhibition.

Users launching the CAM App outside of the museum will be informed as to about how many miles they have to go before reaching the museum doors. Within the same screen an option exists that links users to an online map and directions to CAM from their current location. Those within a regional (50 mile) radius will also see an entire calendar including scrolling featured events and programs hosted by the museum year round. If a user is over 100 miles away, the App functions as an engaging well-designed mobile interface for online museum visitors that represents and enhances the museum’s brand nationally and internationally. Users are introduced to the CAM mission and programming via several avenues including: access to a shared blog with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the ability to connect with CAM’s social media platforms, and access to the CAM Channel which contains a wealth of educational and interpretative content focusing on the current exhibition. Watch artist interviews, listen to discussions with curators and educators, or view performances and public programs that occur in the museum’s Performance Space.

The CAM App pulls its content from the CAM website (camstl.org) which is controlled through Eero, a content management system (CMS) designed by TOKY Branding + Design. Features such as calendars, current exhibitions, general info, and hours are all pulled and updated automatically when updates occur to the main website via Eero. Features such as digital tours are organized and updated independently from an additional tool located within the same Eero CMS as the CAM website. The demonstration will include the CAM App and Eero.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Site:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cam-st.-louis/id477147137?ls=1&mt=8

Authors:

Alex Elmestad

Kidding Around: Hands-on Digital Learning for Children and Families

smannion — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:59:05 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

digital learning

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

on-site

Keywords:

on-site

Keywords:

children

Keywords:

young people

Keywords:

teens

Keywords:

families

Abstract:

Building on the success of the workshop at MW2010, three London museums are uniting to offer a half-day workshop on designing digital learning activities for children and families. The British Museum, Museum of London and Victoria & Albert Museum all have on-site digital education centers that offer ambitious programs for young people.

The nature of our collections and the unique interests and expertise of the teams running these programs means that they are incredibly diverse. The British Museum (Shelley Mannion) focuses on 7-9 year olds through augmented reality, animation, media production and web-based presentation tools. The Museum of London (Paul Clifford) covers a range of ages with photography, video production and mobile applications. The V&A (Alex Flowers) focuses on Adobe design tools, gallery photography and collaborations with media artists.

We propose a workshop that offers a jump start to museum educators or managers thinking about how to serve these audiences. Topics would include:

What are kid-friendly objects? How to use them in digital learning?
What are the profiles of young visitor types (e.g., very young children, elementary school age, pre-teens and teens? What does each group need?
How to integrate technology effectively into successful models of gallery education?
How to create a digital learning program on a budget?
How to approach technology sponsors and write a proposal for funding
What is the difference between gaming and game-like learning?
How to use web-based and social media to connect with young audiences?

The workshop will include discussion, quick hands-on activities selected from our vast repertoires of fun ways to engage children in the galleries, and a design activity where participants are asked to break up into small groups to brainstorm and describe a digital learning activity for an audience and institution of their choice.

Particularly in the context of the recently announced MacArthur Foundation grants for museums and libraries in Digital Media and Learning, there is increased interested in on-site digital learning activities and best practice in serving young audiences through digital media.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Kidding Around: Hands-on Digital Learning for Children and Families

Site:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/samsung_centre/

Authors:

Shelley Mannion

Alex Flowers

The Use of Social Media in the Danish Museum Landscape

nholdgaard — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:28:00 +0000

MW2011

Nanna Holdgaard, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract

This paper examines Danish museums' use of social media on their own websites and on external sites like Facebook. The paper takes its point of departure in a study of the Danish online museum presence through an analysis of the museums' websites and presence at social media sites. The results of exploring 123 Danish museum websites and social media presences show that half of the Danish museums use social media - art museums being the most active among the Danish museums. Despite the fact that half of the Danish museums are on Facebook and write blogs, the majority of museums on a general level communicate with a low degree of user interaction, participation and engagement. The paper concludes that Danish museums in general use social media in order to attract more visitors to the physical museums.

Keywords: museum, online presence, social media, Facebook, Denmark

Program Item Reference:

Online Presence and the Act of Not Just Being There. The Use of Social Media by Danish Museums

Understanding the Distributed Museum: Mapping the Spaces of Museology in Contemporary Culture

ssbautista — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:58:41 +0000

MW2011

Susana Bautista and Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Abstract

Where is the museum for the digital generation? We use the term ìthe distributed museumî to describe the form that the museum takes as it is part of the creation and movement among new spaces that comprise contemporary networked learning environments. No longer located in a particular physical space, the museum extends its presence through all sorts of virtual spaces on the Web as well as in the transient spaces created through the diverse practices and technologies of mobility. This paper offers an analytical framework to describe and map the museology of the distributed museum as it unfolds across conceptual divides between physical and the virtual, the fixed and the mobile, and closed and open.

Keywords: museum, distributed, digital age, participatory, learning

Program Item Reference:

Understanding the Distributed Museum: A Creative Visualization of Contemporary Digital Practices

Building LOD for cultural information resources in Japan

Tetsuro Kamura — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:21:14 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

Linked Open Data

Keywords:

LOD

Keywords:

linked data

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

sematic web

Abstract:

Museum information in Japan is maintained distributedly and nonuniformly. This leads to difficulty in crossover searching for museum information. The LODAC (Linked Open Data for ACademia) project is building a prototype system (LODAC-Museum) to aggregate information across multiple sources. We identify and associate artists and works from different museum collections to provide integrated views for them. The key technology is Linked Data. All the aggregated data is transformed to the standard metadata schema and linked to each other via generated ID resources.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations III

Site:

http://lod.ac

Authors:

Tetsuro KAMURA

Hideaki TAKEDA

Ikki OHMUKAI

Fumihiro KATO

Toru TAKAHASHI

Hiroshi UEDA

Tour 2: New Media in Arts and Social Science Museums

dbear — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:12:32 +0000

Type:

Tour

Programs:

Tour of the National Museum of America Jewish History

Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Online activities at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthroplogy

ICA Tour

Tech Level:

all

Date & Time:

April 5, 2011 - 8:15am - 4:00pm

Location:

offsite

tour

art

museum

behind the scenes

backstage

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Learn how the leading Art, Contemporary Art, Archeology and Anthropology museums in the city are innovating on site and on the Web.

Meet at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market Street.
8:00 am

Tour 1: Science Museum New Media

dbear — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:06:58 +0000

Type:

Tour

Programs:

Tour and briefing on new media at the Franklin Institute Museum

Tour and briefing at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Mutter Museum New Media Tour and Briefing

Tech Level:

all

Date & Time:

April 5, 2011 - 8:15am - 4:00pm

Location:

offsite

tour

science

museum

behind the scenes

backstage

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Three important early 19^th century science museums within a few blocks of each other in Center City Philadelphia are meeting their audiences in new ways in the 21^st century.

Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking

JulianBickersteth — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:34:39 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking

Keywords:

google analytics

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

visitor

Keywords:

mobile tracking

Keywords:

visitor studies

Abstract:

Google Analytics provides museums with extensive data around visits to their virtual sites. Physical visits and the way in which visitors track around museums is currently much harder to monitor. This paper discusses the opportunity that mobile phone WiFi, Bluetooth and TMSI signals provide to allow visitor tracking. The resulting data has potentially great value to museums in understanding how exhibitions and museums spaces are used, in forming exhibition design, assessing the return on investment of interactives and even profiling visitors. Two pilot studies using comparative technologies will also be discussed.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Authors:

Julian Bickersteth

Christopher Ainsley