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Semantic Web and Museum Data Workshop

Marco — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:08:04 +0000

We would like to invite you to the upcoming Semantic Web and CIDOC CRM Workshop on October 25, 2009 in Washington DC

For further details please see:
http://www.semuse.org/index.php?title=Semantic_Web_and_CIDOC_CRM_Workshop

Best of the Web 2010: Nomination Process

jtrant — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:36:34 +0000

Each year, a committee of peers recognises the best museum work on the web.

Here's how the Best of the Web 2010 is going to work.

Better late than never (or so they say): my mw09 report

Conxa — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:30:35 +0000

Shortly after m MW Conference, back from Indianapolis, I wrote a report for my director, museum staff and other museums’ colleagues. It was even published on the Direction of Heritage of the Generalitat (Catalan Government) website, in Catalan. I thought I could have it translated into English as well, to share it with you. And so I did. And then, in the turmoil of everyday overload of work, I forgot about it. Oops. Putting papers and files in order before leaving for holidays, I realize now I never sent it. So, here you are.

What you thought of MW2009. Evaluation Data Analysis

dbear — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:06:48 +0000

Thanks so much for your evaluations of MW2009 – if you haven’t completed one, you still can online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.evaluationForm.html. Our preliminary analysis of these is proving immensely useful as always, but we’re always happy to hear more (so respond online even if you filled one out at the meeting but have had additional thoughts since).

You don't always agree ...

How does the conference work: People come

dbear — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:40:12 +0000

Of course the way the conference really works is that people attend and participate. We would like to think that the meeting is designed so that everyone who comes participates; if we count the unconferences, BOF's, blogs and tweats, everyone who wants to certainly does! We suppose, however, that some attendees were lurking, happily, and that's fine too.

MW2009 Eval – page 2

lendif — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:37:05 +0000

6. General Comments

My favorite sessions were unstructured, unled,
brainstorming, and open, but with a topic and time limit. Unconference/Birds of
a Feather-like.

MediaModes 09 - Call for Proposals for Graduate Student Conference at School of Visual Arts - due June 15th

anneybonney — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:15:17 +0000

Call for Proposals
MediaModes Graduate Student Conference
at the School of Visual Arts, New York City
http://www.mediaModes.com
Proposals due June 15, 2009 to abstracts@mediaModes.com

MediaModes is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference,
which provides a critical forum to present current scholarship and
academic research projects at the intersection of media, art, and

How does the conference work: Everything else

dbear — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:26:36 +0000

Having previously reviewed the venue, staff, food and publications related efforts and costs, in this last blog posting about the conference I’ll discuss a number of miscellaneous issues including the pre-conference events and exhibits that are important components of the overall program. Finally, I'll pose a question we've been noodling, about whether it makes sense to have a "membership" in Museums and the Web.

22nd International Sculpture Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

International Sculpture Center — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:45 +0000

22nd International Sculpture Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

London, UK – April 2010

How does the conference work: Publication

dbear — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:07:29 +0000

We invest a huge effort in getting the Museums and the Web conferences documented. As those who have proposed presentations for MW know, everything goes through extensive peer review. Once accepted, we require all our speakers to provide full papers and then we copy edit those papers and put them on-line, on CD-ROM and in print. After the meeting, we follow up by putting slides of talks on-line and providing transcripts or video of some events. The entire process, end-to-end requires a lot of attention and costs a great deal. We think it is worth it and hope you agree.

How does the conference work: Food

dbear — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:19:50 +0000

The conference, like any army, marches on its belly. This year we each ate or drank $177.57 of our registration fees. That included 625 bottles of water at $4.66 each and over 2400 cups of coffee, decaf and tea from hotel urns at $4.32 each (yes, the hotel over-charges for everything). One reason we give out 'free' tickets for Starbucks espresso drinks, is that this is cheaper for us than the hotel coffee.

Eval - Page 1

lendif — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:01:09 +0000

Eval - Page 1

1. I first heard about M&W from a colleague, well ... my boss.
2. I received permission after asking to go for the last three years
3.
I have visited the website several times, where I obtained forms,
followed discussions, and read program descriptions and logistical info.
4. I didn't participate in online activities during MW2009 because I was too busy, but I will now -- twitter, flickr, archimuse.
I read the twitter fall when it was projected and a few sessions

How does the conference work: Staff

dbear — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:43:08 +0000

We take advantage of the clauses that we negotiate to permit us to bring in outside contractors. After all, as you have no doubt noticed, we have no staff. Jennifer and I do the conference year-round, though primarily during the six months leading up to the meeting when we estimate we spend about 50% time on it (eg. 2 people 50% x 6mo = 1 FTE very unevenly distributed and with lots of long days).

Unconference discussion notes: Small museum staff, big ideas

Layla Masri — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:49:03 +0000

Our session was a lively discussion of the challenges faced my museums with small staffs and even smaller budgets:

Making Museums Like Nature

smannion — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:29:05 +0000

In Nina Simon’s session Going Analogue we worked in groups to imagine how a museum might be transformed into something else. What something else? Well, that was up to us. Finding the answer involved completing the question: Make museums like [your idea here]. We then brainstormed concrete suggestions for how we would transform the museum into this new type of thing. Other groups filled that blank in the sentence above with a church potluck, bank, credit card, wiki and even fantasy baseball. Our group chose Nature. What did we mean by Nature?

Twitter – Populärt webbdeltagande på konferensen

Marika — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:16:37 +0000

”Bra fråga!”, ”Det har vi inte råd med”, ”Besökarna vill inte använda sina egne mobiltelefoner” Minibloggandet är en klar favorit bland oss som deltar på webbkonferensen.

Så himla bra

Marika — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:52:13 +0000

Arrangörerna av webbkonferens är både kunniga och metodorienterade. Nytt för i år är un-conference sessions som tar tillvara på de samtal och möten som uppstår på internationella konferenser. Metoden är informell och man tar med sig ett ämne eller fråga till ett rum och diskuterar fritt.

Programmet

Marika — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:11:55 +0000

Här är konferensprogrammet. Hör av dig om du vill att jag kollar upp något som du är nyfiken på. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/sessions/index.html

safe travels everyone

jtrant — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:49:07 +0000

Can you see the rabbit? from jtrant on flickr

we're looking forward to seeing you all in Indianapolis next week. Spring isn't quite as far along as in this picture, but temperatures do look good. See the full forecast on the weather network.

And remember, if you are coming from reminder: if you're coming to MW2009 from outside the US and Canada, you need to fill in the USA Immigration ESTA form.

there are details about airport transfers on the MW2009 Local Information page. Check out the MW2009 Yelp! page for Indy restaurant recommendations.

travel safely!

Varför Riksutställningar deltar på konferensen

Marika — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:26:06 +0000

Webbredaktörens deltagande på konferensen Museum and the Web leder på följande sätt att nå Riksutställningars verksamhetsmål.

#MW2009 on-line mentor Jon Pratty - getting people together in the backchannel

jon_pratty — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:45:26 +0000

Something social, networked and slightly different is happening at #mw2009. From a small base in the Directors Room, our team of editorial volunteers will be actively weaving threads between Twitter comment, external blogs, and live post-session feedback.

We’ll collect everything onto conference.archimuse.com while ideas are still buzzing. It's about weaving together all sorts of voices, on all kinds of platforms, telling the story of the place and the space as we unfold our sessions, workshops and in-between moments.

Museums and the Web: Current Issues

jtrant — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:53:40 +0000

the slides from my presentation yesterday at Keio University, Tokyo, are on-line now, at slideshare [and embedded below]. Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about what keeps you up at night.

/jt

RFP: AAM + ACM session (Five-Minute Media Matinee and Big Impact/Low Budget)

Suzanne — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:27:13 +0000

AAM + ACM session (Five-Minute Media Matinee and Big Impact/Low Budget)

Has your museum been experimenting with different types of media outlets and devices to advance your promotional or educational goals? Do you know of someone who has? We'd like to know about it!

Best of the Web 2009: Nomination Process

Best of the Web — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:34:51 +0000

Here's how the Best of the Web 2009 is going to work.

Culture Geeks - December's talk: multilingual subject access to collections

val.cartei — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:58:08 +0000

The next Culture Geeks’ talk is a special Christmas edition, with
speaker Etienne Posthomus, who will be joining us from Amsterdam to talk
about:
" The polyglot collection – making multilingual subject access to collections possible using ICONCLASS and Arkyves "

At http://www.arkyves.org/
Arkyves you will find a collection of images and descriptive metadata

how not to encourage web participation at a conference

jtrant — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:52:20 +0000

i spent a chunk of today "participating online" in the 'web 2.0 summit' hosted by the City of Toronto, subtitled "Moving towards Government 2.0" [see the Agenda]. i hadn't heard anything about it until a tweet from Kevin Von Appen of the Ontario Science Centre mentioned he was speaking. the event offered 'on-line participation' and since i didn't have a time to head downtown i figured i'd check it out.

what i got was a lesson in how not to run an on-line event. rather than use the opportunity to model the kinds of changes in communications patterns that 'web 2.0' tech enables, the event was a one-way, an opportunity to watch 'guys in the know' talk to each other. video went out from the meeting, complete with horrible music when there was a break in the audio feed. "questions" could be submitted through an 'ask a question' form, but they turned out to be highly moderated. [there was no mention of moderation anywhere in the prep materials.] there was a link to 'view the moderators board', but from my experience a lot of what was asked never made it there. at one point it disappeared completely for me. there was also a form to enter 'comments'. where they went was anyone's guess. i couldn't find any trace of what i submitted, anywhere [though tech support did tell me the went 'into the same database as everything else'. how reassuring.]

tagging and folksonomy keynote @ DC2008

jtrant — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:39:58 +0000

i gave a keynote this morning at the Dublin Core Metadata Meeting - DC2008 on access to art museums on-line: a role for social tagging and folksonomy? that reports on more of the steve.museum tagging data analysis. this talk built on what i reported at NKOS last week [steve.museum: public and professional vocabularies. presentation @ NKOS 2008] and extended it to include some thoughts on user-generated metadata – useful in the context of DC, which began its life as a format for encoding user-created metadata – and a bit of work about the relationships between tags and search logs.

my slides are here (without some of the funky builds).

while we'd hypothesized that there might be a tight relationship between tags and search terms, what we found was a much looser coupling. whether this is a self-fulilling prophesy – because searches on the kinds of subject and genre terms that they use to tag fail, people don't use them – or because description and retrieval vocabularies vary at some other level still needs some thought. that's what the examples we looked at seemed to indicate, and a place i'll be looking further.

Houston… We have a wiki workshop

ngamble — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:15:52 +0000

I flew into Houston, Texas yesterday for the 21st Annual Visitor Studies Association conference. This is my first time in Space City, as well as the Lone Star State, for that matter. This morning, I presented a workshop with Jes Koepfler, a fellow Museum Studies grad and my “partner in crime” on the Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum online exhibition project (we co-managed this project put together by the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies Class of 2008 using a wiki). Appropriately, we presented Using Wikis for Project Management.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: American Association of Museums, Media&Technology

Muse Chair — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:03:41 +0000

The deadline for submitting a program proposal for American Association of Museums, Media&Technology 2009 Philadelphia (April 30-May 4) is approaching quickly. For Media&Technology endorsement, the deadline is July 11, Friday, 2008.

Slidecast of Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags

smannion — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:46:59 +0000

For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/