Presentations and documents tagged “museums”
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Carolyn Royston, A guide to managing a large mu...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Business & Mgmt. 509 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
The National Museums Online Learning Project is the most significant UK national museum partnership project to date. It is a government sponsored project involving nine national museums: Briti...
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R. Stein and D. Incandela, Seeking Balance in t...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 553 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009
Online video has emerged as a powerful tool for distributing interpretive content to museum and web visitors. These technologies have created new ways to connect with and engage new audiences. [...
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Richard Morgan, What is your museum good at and...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 683 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
There has been an encouraging surge of interest in the museums sector in opening up museum data and building APIs on museum collections databases. However, a museum's collections are not the o...
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Seb Chan and Angelina Russo, Planning for Socia...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 953 views
A workshop from Museums and the Web 2009.
This half-day workshop will explore the use of social media (blogs, wikis, digital stories etc.) to support museum communication. The workshop will address:
* The range of web-based social med...
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ARLIS Roundtable 2009
from RLGPrograms, posted 8 months ago in Education, Books. 393 views
Presentation given by Günter Waibel and Dennis Massie at ARLIS 2009.
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My Karsh Mon Karsh
from Intiaz, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 449 views
This was demonstrated at Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 18, 2009.
December 23, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, widely recognized as Canada’s leading portrait photographer o...
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Megan Heckert, Putting Museum Collections on th...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 760 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
On-line mapping tools are quickly becoming ubiquitous, and have much to offer museums for both collection management and outreach. This paper explores potential applications of Geographic Infor...
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Sharna Jackson and Rob Adamson, Doing it for th...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 668 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
Children between the ages of six and 12 are not a homogenous mass. Both ends of the age range have differing needs, abilities and expectations. When designing a Web site for them, it is crucial...
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J. Grabill, S. Pigg, and K. Wittenauer, Take Tw...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 458 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
This paper presents early results from a large, multi-year study of the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on museum learning and practice. The study has two parts. One part is an examination of di...
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M. Salgado, J. Saad-Sulonen, and L. Diaz, Using...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 481 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
In this paper, we address what mechanisms are at play when using on-line maps in a museum context to trigger and expand visitors’ involvement with an exhibition and its content. Our analysis is...
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Steffen Böddeker, Alexandra McIntosh, and Adria...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Business & Mgmt. 507 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009
With the constant evolution of the Web, different browsing metaphors are expanding from navigation bars, drop-down menus, and sitemaps. More recent mechanisms such as tag-browsing, timelines, ca...
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Slavko Milekic, Action, affection and control: ...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Health & Medicine. 580 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009.
This paper examines emerging interface paradigms, to a certain extent exemplified by Apple’s iPhone interface, for interacting with complex visual content. It provides an overview of 15 years o...
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Dan Zambonini and Mike Ellis, hoard.it: Aggrega...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 756 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009:
A prototype system that allows the aggregation of data from museum and related Web sites, including object and event records, was rapidly developed. By screen-scraping the existing pages of 17 ...
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Rob Stein, Charles Moad, Ed Bachta, Museums and...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 2026 views
A paper from Museums and the Web 2009
The promise of distributed computing has long been touted by computer scientists working on Grids or in Clouds, but is the realization of these goals finally at hand? Recently several commercial offeri...
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Ari Davidow, Fedora, Drupal, and Cloud Computin...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 1252 views
A paper from Museums and the Web 2009
Digital asset management and digital preservation can require expensive, proprietary software and expensive servers. For a small, underfunded institution like the Jewish Women’s Archive, the answer lies...
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Tim Hart & David Methven, Organisational Change...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Education, Business & Mgmt. 765 views
A paper from Museums and the Web 2009: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/
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Museum Victoria is Australia's largest public museums organisation and, as the State Museum for Victoria, it is responsible for the care of the State's coll...
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Vincent de Keijzer & Patricia Deiser, Down to E...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Education, Business & Mgmt. 505 views
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2009 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/
Abstract: The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague is a museum for contemporary art and the applied arts. “Down To Earth” presents a case study of the museum’s recent pro...
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Darren Peacock, Stuart Tait and Corey Timpson, ...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Education, Sports. 675 views
School-based users, both students and educators, have always been a primary target audience for museum on-line content. Museums and other cultural organisations have made significant investments in developing and disseminating content on-li...
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Mariruth Leftwich and Martin Bazley, Pedagogy a...
from museumsandtheweb, posted 8 months ago in Technology, Education. 1129 views
As museums increase access to collections through Web-based digitization projects and create accompanying educational activities, it is important to consider the success of these as teaching tools in classrooms. This paper examines the peda...
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Eden Plaza Kensington – Budget Hotels near Earl...
from orsondixon, posted 8 months ago in Travel. 302 views
The Eden Plaza Kensington Hotel is a superior tourist class two star hotel offering comfortable accommodation near great locations Earls Court and Knightsbridge in Central London.Visit us-http://www.edenplazakensington.co.uk/
