The document provides a summary of several technology conferences attended by museum professionals. It begins with a format outline for the session which will include rapid reports from 10 colleagues on various conferences, followed by analysis from two panelists. The conferences that will be reported on are then listed, including Museums and the Web, CIDOC, the American Association of Museums annual meeting, the New Media Consortium Summer Conference, the Texas Association of Museums annual meeting, a research roundup on DCMI and ASIS&T, the Tate Handheld Conference, and Design4Mobile. Each conference report is limited to 5 minutes.
WNR.sg - The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructurewnradmin
The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructure
by Dr J.S.M (Bas) Savenije, Director General from Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of Netherlands)
WNR.sg - The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructurewnradmin
The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructure
by Dr J.S.M (Bas) Savenije, Director General from Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of Netherlands)
Museum as Platform; Curator as ChampionNancy Proctor
"Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion: Learning to sing in the age of social media," a presentation by Nancy Proctor at the conference, "Event Culture: The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art" organized by the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 7 November 2009.
Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
I created this Powerpoint for one of my Grad class to show how we can use social media in our libraries. Examples that I Used was taken from The Free Library Of Philadelphia where I currently work.
UCD Digital Library: Creating online access to historical and contemporary co...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, UCD Library Research Services Manager, at Academic & Special Libraries Annual Seminar 1st March 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Newman Numismatic Portal Overview - Mar 2015Chris Freeland
The Newman Numismatic Portal will create the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of American and Colonial coinage, currency, realia, and related correspondence and published literature. Materials from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society’s coin collections and supporting reference libraries will be digitized along with University collections and made available to an online community of scholars and enthusiasts. Digital content will be stored, curated and preserved by specialists in the Libraries, with corresponding curatorial activities on physical/analog materials. Outreach activities will raise awareness about the research portal and its contents.
Many libraries are acquiring much more than an individual’s papers. They are also acquiring community-based collections. Community-based collections are those which have been amassed not by one individual but by a collective, which may take the form of a museum, ethnic or cultural organization, or other diaspora group active in the documentation of its past. Often these collections are emotional collections, in that they speak to the community’s heritage and identity. As such, these broad archives are extremely personal to those who collected and, sometimes created, the materials. When libraries work with community based collections, they navigate new territory In working with community-based collections, libraries are navigating new territory in integrating and stewarding these communities as well as more traditionally caring for the physical collection. An ongoing commitment to community engagement, with some level of shared governance or other collaborative activity to build, process, or publicize the collection, is often a key part of acquiring community-based collections.
Documenting Ferguson: Building a community digital repositoryChris Freeland
The August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, along with other recent police-involved shootings around the country have inspired demonstrations, conversation, debate and calls for systemic change in our society. Soon after Brown’s shooting, Washington University Libraries and other St. Louis cultural heritage institutions established a repository to document events in or inspired by Ferguson. Appropriately named Documenting Ferguson, this community-sourced open repository now has more than 1,500 files of digital photographs, video recordings and other media contributed from all over the country. These are viewable online at http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson. Video of this talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6whGNsesYA.
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, and Stacey Erdman, Beloit College, for Creating Community through Digital Futures, held in Chicago on November 1, 2018
Got Tech? How Small-town museums and historical sites can go digitalBluecadet
Community pillars and repositories of history and memory, many museums are struggling the face of an ever evolving technological landscape. Consultants for local museums have commented that small museums “lack all of the new technology platforms” and as a result these museums will “most likely fall further behind the industry and become less relevant to the intended audience.” By looking at recent digital initiatives from across the country, this panel will highlight ways in which museums can use this opportunity to not only jump on the digital bandwagon, but also reach a new and larger audience.
The Smithsonian Institution, the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, and the Florida Humanities Council are a few of the national and statewide institutions that are partnering with small town museums and historic sites through new digital initiatives. We will discuss twenty-first century solutions for museums and historic sites by examining interactive experiences that explore how we can leverage current collections/resources and thus highlight the pivotal role these institutions can play within the larger community.
Museum as Platform; Curator as ChampionNancy Proctor
"Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion: Learning to sing in the age of social media," a presentation by Nancy Proctor at the conference, "Event Culture: The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art" organized by the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 7 November 2009.
Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
I created this Powerpoint for one of my Grad class to show how we can use social media in our libraries. Examples that I Used was taken from The Free Library Of Philadelphia where I currently work.
UCD Digital Library: Creating online access to historical and contemporary co...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, UCD Library Research Services Manager, at Academic & Special Libraries Annual Seminar 1st March 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Newman Numismatic Portal Overview - Mar 2015Chris Freeland
The Newman Numismatic Portal will create the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of American and Colonial coinage, currency, realia, and related correspondence and published literature. Materials from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society’s coin collections and supporting reference libraries will be digitized along with University collections and made available to an online community of scholars and enthusiasts. Digital content will be stored, curated and preserved by specialists in the Libraries, with corresponding curatorial activities on physical/analog materials. Outreach activities will raise awareness about the research portal and its contents.
Many libraries are acquiring much more than an individual’s papers. They are also acquiring community-based collections. Community-based collections are those which have been amassed not by one individual but by a collective, which may take the form of a museum, ethnic or cultural organization, or other diaspora group active in the documentation of its past. Often these collections are emotional collections, in that they speak to the community’s heritage and identity. As such, these broad archives are extremely personal to those who collected and, sometimes created, the materials. When libraries work with community based collections, they navigate new territory In working with community-based collections, libraries are navigating new territory in integrating and stewarding these communities as well as more traditionally caring for the physical collection. An ongoing commitment to community engagement, with some level of shared governance or other collaborative activity to build, process, or publicize the collection, is often a key part of acquiring community-based collections.
Documenting Ferguson: Building a community digital repositoryChris Freeland
The August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, along with other recent police-involved shootings around the country have inspired demonstrations, conversation, debate and calls for systemic change in our society. Soon after Brown’s shooting, Washington University Libraries and other St. Louis cultural heritage institutions established a repository to document events in or inspired by Ferguson. Appropriately named Documenting Ferguson, this community-sourced open repository now has more than 1,500 files of digital photographs, video recordings and other media contributed from all over the country. These are viewable online at http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson. Video of this talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6whGNsesYA.
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, and Stacey Erdman, Beloit College, for Creating Community through Digital Futures, held in Chicago on November 1, 2018
Got Tech? How Small-town museums and historical sites can go digitalBluecadet
Community pillars and repositories of history and memory, many museums are struggling the face of an ever evolving technological landscape. Consultants for local museums have commented that small museums “lack all of the new technology platforms” and as a result these museums will “most likely fall further behind the industry and become less relevant to the intended audience.” By looking at recent digital initiatives from across the country, this panel will highlight ways in which museums can use this opportunity to not only jump on the digital bandwagon, but also reach a new and larger audience.
The Smithsonian Institution, the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, and the Florida Humanities Council are a few of the national and statewide institutions that are partnering with small town museums and historic sites through new digital initiatives. We will discuss twenty-first century solutions for museums and historic sites by examining interactive experiences that explore how we can leverage current collections/resources and thus highlight the pivotal role these institutions can play within the larger community.
An introduction to LIBER as an organisation, and the key ways in which we help our network of 400+ libraries across Europe. Presented in Slovenia in September 2016.
Presentation at 2013 World Summit on the Information Society multistakeholder review event (WSIS+10)
UNESCO, Paris, 25-27 February 2013
ISSC Session: Critical Social Sciences in the Digital Age
On 14th November 2014, members of ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) were invited to a study tour at the AHRC offices in Swindon. The day provided ARMA members with the opportunity to learn more about the AHRC, and upcoming developments of interest. The day included presentations on:
- The AHRC’s 10th Anniversary activities
- The AHRC's new area of Business Processes and Analysis
- European Funding – Horizon 2020 and HERA
- The Knowledge Exchange Hubs: lessons and legacy
- Research Outcomes and Researchfish
HMG Strategy session, February 23, 2023. Virtual: Lessons in Global Leadership. This presentation explores the application of psychology to digital transformation, with a focus on the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), including the mindset and leadership required to drive successful digital transformation initiatives, and the importance of insight, empathy, and other "soft skills" in achieving success. In addition, it examines the psychological principles of motivation and what drives people crazy. Suggested recommended reading is included for those wishing to delve deeper into the topics discussed.
Keynote address for the International CIMED Conference about Museums and Digital Strategies - “II Congreso Internacional de Museos y Estrategias Digitales”, dedicated to Museums and Digital Strategies for the Spanish and Latin American professionals https://remed.webs.upv.es/cimed22/ on October 19, 2022. This talk explores the origins and current state of digital in the museum sector, which enable us to put a frame of reference on the accelerated changes that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic and examine what is likely to come next. Museums have faced numerous challenges on the journey to digital transformation, and success often depends not only on a clear vision and strategy, but also on how that strategy is implemented in day-to-day work. It is vital for the digital function to be closely-aligned with the overall strategy of the organization, empowering staff to work together in close collaboration. This talk will include specific examples of successful digital strategies and initiatives, along with a few illustrative failures. We will also take a look at how ongoing rapid changes in technology create particular challenges for the cultural heritage sector.
Presentation given to students in the Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Course instructor Alaine Arnott, CEO of the Liberty Museum. This is a genera overview of digital strategy for museums and cultural heritage organizations, including my perspective from a background in psychology. Also focused on audience engagement and the importance of centering all decisions on human experience and connection.
October 11, 2021
Presentation/Lecture examining digital strategy, cultural heritage, audience engagement and the power of brand. In addition, a look at the role of psychology in the development of strategies for public engagement and also a peek at a few emerging technologies and how they might have important applications in the cultural heritage and museum sectors.
Agenda:
1. Introduction – career, position
2. Context for digital strategy
3. Digital at The Met
4. Brand and digital strategy
5. Case Study: from the MIA to Mia
6. Future vision and emerging technology
7. Q & A
Slides from 28 September 2021, event hosted by Museo Nazionale Etrusco - Villa Giulia, Italy. Titled: Italy and the United States: Culture, Business, Economy. Investment Models for Economic Recovery. This presentation looks at the importance of brand + digital strategy in the success of museums and cultural heritage organizations, and includes a specific case study from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Slides from May 25, 2021 online session.
Session description: With the outbreak of Covid-19, 95% of museums across the world were forced to close doors.
Commemorating World Museums Day, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai invites you to a panel discussion with distinguished museum leaders to address how museums have creatively dealt with the challenges of the pandemic. Panelists will showcase strategies for exhibiting their collections, reaching audiences globally and nationally to fulfill their mandate of cultural access and public education, building new skills, and developing new models for future sustainability.
Panelists
• Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Managing Trustee and Honorary Director, Dr, Bhau Daji Lad Museum
• Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director General of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS Museum)
• Douglas Hegley, Chief Digital Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderator
Ravina Aggarwal, Director, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai
Keynote talk on 14 April 2021
The New Era of Digital Culture
Web Live Conference
Session Abstract:
The broad impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic has been felt across all industries, including museums. Faced with sudden closures and drastic reductions in revenue, museums were forced to pivot to digital engagement – but some were better prepared than others, and the overall lack of strategic preparation was evident. Over the past year, museums have learned important lessons, which the sector can take into the future. We are not “going back to normal” even after the pandemic is over. Digital engagement is here to stay. This keynote will focus on the strategic approach to moving forward and will include several specific recommendations to help museums remain audience-focused and relevant through the range of onsite visits, virtual engagement, and hybrid experiences that combine both.
What makes a CxO tick? Particularly within the context of enterprise architecture and digital transformation. How can the value of IT and innovation align with leadership practice? This presentation is from a roundtable event on April 1, 2021.
Presentation from May 14, 2020 - a little about the nature of the CDO role, and how that is different from a CIO and CTO - along with some ideas about disrupting traditional leadership models.
Presentation from the MCN Conference, November 7, 2019.
Session Title: Acing the Interview
Session Description: As rapidly as technologies change, so does the employment landscape for digital professionals. Hiring managers are increasingly challenged to find not just the right talent to fit organizational needs, but also to hire people who can join their existing teams as rapidly and seamlessly as possible. At the same time, job seekers want to present their best work and highlight the skills and characteristics that will make them the perfect candidate for the job. Whether you are an emerging professional, switching up your career after many years in the field, or anywhere in between, we want to help you ace the interview and get the job of your dreams.
Through short presentations, mock interviews (demonstrations), and ongoing interactive discussion, attendees will witness the good, the bad, and the ugly of the interviewing process and learn how to handle its twists and turns. Topics will include: managing your resume, interview questions and how best to answer them, communication strategies throughout the hiring process, negotiating salary, and a few potential “gotchas.” Attendees will leave better prepared to navigate the complexities of the interview process.
Slide deck from keynote address to regional meeting of TribalHub and Midwest Tribal Technology Council (MTTC) for tribes in the Midwest- Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
May 17, 2019
The Innovation Mindset
Session description:
Instead of waiting for the next change to happen, we can adopt a strong innovation mindset and BE the next wave (instead of being hit BY the next wave). Staying with a primary theme of this regional meeting, this morning kickoff will emphasize how applied innovation - positive disruption - leads to new successes. By developing an innovation mindset we can more-readily identify and seize moments of opportunity for our organizations to be more nimble, productive and resilient. Take away inspiration and methods to help you and your organization focus on new possibilities.
Slide deck from HSDAMNY 2019
DAMs and Cultural Heritage - A Professional Dialog
May 2, 2019 - New York, NY
with Susan Wamsley, Digital Asset Manager, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
and Douglas Hegley, Chief Digital Officer, Mia
Session Description:
Join us for an in-depth look at the current state and future horizon of digital asset management within the Cultural Heritage sector (which includes museums, archives, libraries and other organizations dedicated to preserving and sharing the wonders of our human experience). This session features a dialog between two professionals - a C-suite executive and a leading DAM practitioner - who will explore challenging topics from their perspectives. Among the ideas to be discussed are the impact of a collecting/preserving mission on DAM practice, some of the unique needs of museums and cultural heritage organizations, the stark reality of nonprofit budget constraints, and how the sector is currently going through a “second wave” of DAMs implementation and usage. Attendees are encouraged to join in throughout the discussion with questions and comments.
Slide deck from MCN 2018 Session
Tacking Ticketing and Other Complex Online Transactions
November 16, 2018
Session description:
Event ticket sales is hardly a new industry, but museums face particular challenges regarding online and onsite ticketing. Navigating variations across a wide array of event types, ever-changing sales plans, and numerous pricing levels based on membership status and/or donation history all add complexity to every transaction. Producing sane and sustainable workflows is difficult.
In this session, technology leaders at four museums will talk about their approaches to ticketing and other online transactions, spanning the range from off-the-shelf products, site-specific customizations, and bespoke solutions. Ticketing has been hard and stressful for too long, not only for our customers but also for our staff. How can we make this better?
Panelists:
Ethan Holda, Cleveland Museum of Art
James Vitale, LACMA
John Higgins, SFMOMA
Douglas Hegley, Mia
Abridged slide deck from MCN 2018 session Pain Points & Sweet Spots: An open and honest discussion about professional development and its relationship with personal life stages. November 15, 2018, Denver.
Find this presentation on google docs here: https://tinyurl.com/y9q9fp52
As a community we often speak to the transformative work we do in our organizations to bust silos, collaborate interdepartmentally, build bridges, and extoll the values of understanding how our staff share interconnected goals. Often, we fail to apply these values to ourselves consistently as we navigate our careers and personal lives. Instead, we might passively deny how interconnected work and life are, or worse we might actively attempt to firewall them off. By acknowledging how these aspects of our lives influence us for better and worse, we can look for patterns, and learn from others in our community who have already gone through certain phases and can help those that haven’t yet done so.
During this session, hear from and ask questions of colleagues, each at different phases in their lives and careers, who will speak candidly about their experiences and concerns across a range of topics including: balancing school with finding a job, starting out in the museum world, managing people/projects, marriage/partnerships, raising families, transitioning to management, caring for aging parents, coping with loss, when to leave or find a new position in/out of the field, and preparing for retirement.
Slide deck from presentation to SIM MN meeting on October 25, 2018. Using a set of effective lenses can help us understand leadership and the promise of disruptive transformation. Strings together digital stewardship, systems thinking, positive disruption, people, and the need to disrupt (1) org structures, (2) leadership paradigms, and (3) talent strategy. Also available as a google presentation: https://tinyurl.com/yd99wknh
Lightning Talk given at the October 2018 Synapse Symposium "Envisioning a Regional Innovation Festival". A short sprint through arts innovation in Minnesota, and a provocation on bringing the different lenses of art and artist to bear on innovation practice - turning STEM to STEAM.
Slides (with notes) from Keynote address delivered July 20, 2018 to the 2018-19 National Digital Stewardship Art Cohort at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Framing digital transformation and positive disruption through the lens of digital stewardship, systems thinking and The Innovator's Dilemma.
The Continuing Evolution of DAMs in the Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofit organizations are driven by their missions and for many decades they have delivered on those missions effectively by using primarily manual processes.
However, the world has changed dramatically. The digital transformation of the past two decades has resulted in an entirely new set of opportunities as well as challenges. In today’s world, nonprofits achieve mission-focused success and competitive advantage by implementing and leveraging best practices with digital technologies.
Managing information and digital content is vital, leading to the embrace of powerful digital asset management tools and practices. Viewed from the perspective of 2018, there has been a remarkable evolution, as organizations have adapted and thrived (or not) in this new, technological ecosystem. This session will explore how nonprofit organizations have evolved as they continue to fulfill their important missions.
Using an interactive case study format to include multiple perspectives, panelists from different types and sizes of nonprofits will share their stories. We will examine the origins of adopting new tools such as DAMs, the challenges faced, and the evolution that has taken place in our sector. We will look at changes to strategy over time, and the different ways that organizational structures have shifted in response. Through open sharing and plenty of audience participation, attendees and presenters will learn from each other, gain practical knowledge, expand professional networks, and set the stage for continued success.
Moderator:
Douglas Hegley, Chief Digital Officer, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Panelists:
Jessica Berlin, Director, Digital Asset Management, American Cancer Society
Peter Dueker, Head of Web and Imaging Services, National Gallery of Art
Susan Luchars, Librarian and Archivist
Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski, Director of the Digital Library, The White House Historical Association
Museums and cultural heritage organizations wrestle with ticketing systems, finding it hard to access the data, apply complex discounting, and maintain brand experience. In 2017, two organizations took on innovative approaches to solve some of these problems. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) developed a new ticketing site internally, a Web product called Museum Nice and Simple Ticketing (MNST). Its key concept: a cart-less and login-less experience. Also in 2017, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) launched a new ticketing and transaction platform called Hive which uses an open source Web-standard approach to run transactions and work seamlessly with customers’ membership records in Salesforce. Both institutions recognize the complexity and stress of developing these systems. And yet, both ACMI and Mia took this route. The session will explore key details of each project, including the following:
– Why a ticketing project? What problem(s) were we trying to solve?
– How each platform was built;
– Similarities/differences between the organizations and projects;
– Integration—the word that scares all technologists.
This session is designed to be meaningful and useful for a number of different MW attendees, from senior decision-makers to software developers and the staff who spend their days working directly in ticketing and transaction systems. Attendees will learn real-world information about the technology, code base, APIs and UI/UX of each system. Attendees can expect an open discussion and active debate about the “best way to do this”—after all, not every organization can or should take the same approach. Attendees will take away practical knowledge about business systems, software development, and transaction processing that can be applied to their own organizations and professional careers.
Slides from session at Henry Stewart DAM LA Conference
November 14, 2017
Session description:
The cultural heritage sector plays an important role in our society, primarily because it has the responsibility to collect and preserve both artifacts and knowledge from the past in order to share them in the present and maintain them for the benefit of future generations.
Nearly all cultural heritage organizations operate as nonprofits, with specific mandates and very tight budgets. With those constraints in place, the sector must still find a way to compete for the same customers as all other consumer-oriented businesses - in that light, leveraging digital content offers a strong potential path to success.
In order to attract and engage 21st century audiences and contributors, cultural heritage organizations have become digital publishers, creating and providing access to meaningful content on a scale that was never anticipated. While most have become adept at producing digital content, the sector has been playing catch up when it comes to organizing, cataloging and sharing that content.
This session will look at how cultural organizations can achieve mission-focused success and competitive advantage by adopting best practices in digital asset management and digital curation. In addition, we will examine the formal responsibility and challenge for nonprofit/cultural heritage organizations to ensure long-term preservation and provide access to digital assets in perpetuity.
2. • Museum technology professionals are BUSY
• So many great conferences, meetings,
organizations, consortia, publications, etc.
• How can you possibly keep up?
3. Goal of this session:
• Presenters share highlights from a variety of
relevant conferences/meetings
• We hope this will be informative and thought-
provoking
4. Format:
– Part One:
• Rapid-fire reports from 10 of your colleagues
• Time-limited (5 minutes maximum for each)
• Hopefully less …
– Part Two:
• Analysis, trends, etc. by our two Panelists
– Rob Lancefield
– Richard Urban
• Audience participation, Q & A
5. The Line-up Card (in order):
– Bruce Wyman - MW
– Erin Coburn - CIDOC, ICOM
– Rob Lancefield - AAM
– Rachel Varon - NMC
– Ruth Ann Rugg - TAM
– Richard Urban - "Research Roundup" (DCMI, ASIS&T)
– Ted Forbes - Tate Handheld
– Beck Tench - Design4Mobile
– Nancy Proctor – Design4Mobile, continued
– Paco Link - SXSW
9. Description
• Program built from the bottom up
– based on what people are working on and thinking about now
• A meeting of people really doing stuff
– with plenty to time to talk to other people and share solutions
• Flexibility in formats
– Different kinds of sessions for different things
– Responsive (e.g. intro of unconference sessions last year)
11. Resources / Backchannel
• Use media ourselves --> twitterfall / sponsor
backchannel display @ MCN
– @museweb for updates and other interesting stuff
• Online papers + searchable bibliography
– To learn from others, document developments
12. Next Year: 15th Annual Museums and the Web Conference
• Program live before end of Nov., including sessions on
– Organizational strategy
– Organizational change
– Collaboration
– Outcomes + process
– Tagging, searching and collections online
– Open source developments
– Wikis for content management
– Mobiles
– Research results [5 min. presentations]
+ unconference, crit room, usability lab, demonstrations, professional
forums, good food and drink ...
13. April 6-9, 2011, Philadelphia, PA
• Still opportunities for participation @ MW2011
– Demo proposals due December 31
– Unconference sessions proposed on site
• Future MW Conferences:
– April 11-14, 2012 in San Diego, California, USA
– April 17-20, 2013 in Portland, Oregon, USA
21. Conference Review Report: American
Association of Museums
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
With some background content from Douglas Hegley’s MCN 2009 report on AAM 2009
MCN 2010, Austin, Texas 29 October 2010
22. • Widely known as AAM
• Founded 1906
• Membership across entire scope of museums includes more than:
17,000 individuals, 3,000 institutions, 300 corporate members
• Helps to develop standards and best practices, gather and share knowledge,
and provide advocacy for the entire museum community
• Represents all types of museums: art, history, science, military, maritime, and
youth museums, as well as aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums,
historic sites, science and technology centers….
• Website: http://www.aam-us.org
• MCN is an AAM Affiliate Organization, as are many other such free-standing
organizations with shared areas of interest regarding the communities and people
we serve. Affiliate organizations are not part of AAM, but we seek alignment
from both sides wherever possible and useful in our service to the community.
American Association of Museums
23. AAM Media and Technology SPC
• AAM has Standing Professional Committees
• Media and Technology (MAT) SPC is one
• MAT overlaps with MCN in membership and
topics, but with somewhat different focus
• For more than 20 years, MAT has presented
annual MUSE Awards for excellence in media
produced by or for museums:
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/
24. Theme: Museums without Borders
Key soundbites from advance information sheet:
“The young 21st century is about connectivity.”
“Connectivity has helped to dismantle
borders—social, cultural and geographical..”
“Can we be a community of museums
without borders?”
Annual Meeting: AAM 2010
25. AAM 2010 Program
• Large and diverse program including:
– 160 sessions on a wide range of topics
– Networking opportunities
– Keynote and “thought leader” speakers
– Huge vendor expo with more than 300 exhibitors
– Numerous committee and business meetings
– Popular “Career Café”
– Onsite events at Los Angeles museums and more
26. AAM 2010 Attendees
• Over 6,000 attendees this year, despite
the challenging economic environment
• AAM members and conference attendees
span the full range of museum occupations:
– directors, curators, registrars, educators, exhibit
designers, art handlers, conservators, marketers,
development people, security managers, trustees,
volunteers, technology and information workers
(some familiar faces from MCN!), and on and on.
27. AAM 2010 Highlights
• Great discussions about social interactions in
home institutions between people with quite
different levels of comfort with technology
• Lots of dialogue (also in and out of sessions)
about the uses and implications, for museums,
of social networking and other technologies
• Key sessions this year included:
— “Demystifying the Mighty I.T.”
— “Beyond the Shiny Object”
— More!
28. Annual Meeting Value
One person’s very subjective take, in a nutshell:
• AAM includes virtually all museum topics, so…
• Can be diffuse, unless you focus yourself, but:
• Premier venue for serendipitous conversations
with other museum people who work in very
different institutional roles and settings, as
well as for learning from formal presentations
on a similarly wide gamut of subjects. That is…
• Knowledge-sharing and community-building
across the museum field’s diverse subfields.
29. Backchannel / Durable Traces
• Twitter (hashtag #aam10, some used #aam2010)
• Session audio recordings (sold for fee)
• Website seems to be partially swept over, or
to be rendered navigationally obscure(?), by
subsequent/upcoming conference content
30. 2011 AAM Annual Meeting
Theme: The Museum of Tomorrow
http://www.aam-us.org/am11
Houston, May 22–25, 2011
Come back to Texas!
34. 2010 NMC Summer Conference
• Held in Anaheim, California
• Hosted by the University of Southern
California
• Over 75 sessions offered
• Attended by faculty members in new
media disciplines, mid- to upper-
management personnel, and senior
technologists at colleges and universities
47. Conference Roundup Report
October 2010
Texas Association of Museums (TAM)
Ruth Ann Rugg
Executive Director
Texas Association of Museums
48. Texas Association of Museums (TAM)
http://www.texasmuseums.org
• TAM is a non-profit 501C3 museum service organization founded in 1975
• Supports professionals working in Texas museums, historic sites, and other
arts, cultural, and community organizations
• Provides professional development opportunities, skills training, and other
educational resources
• Promotes national standards and best practices for museums and
museum professionals, working closely with AAM and AASLH
• Works to keep membership informed of museum-related news,
challenges, trends, programming, advocacy avenues, and funding sources
• Includes 700 individuals and institutions in TAM membership, each
representing diverse subject matter and cultures
• Headquarters in Fort Worth and employs two full-time staff members
49. 2010 Annual Meeting Theme
“All Aboard: Museums on Track”
March 16-19, 2010
Bryan-College Station
Texas museums are facing many challenges in these uncertain economic
times. In addition to weathering a slower economy, many of our museums
in Texas are also recovering from devastating weather conditions and are
busy at work restoring their institutions. …
Our 2010 TAM Annual Meeting will focus on ways that museums can pull
together and ‘stay on track.’ Let’s explore resource sharing, collaboration
on restoration projects, creative and innovative fundraising, and ways to
motivate and inspire the ‘engines’ in our museum communities.
50. TAM Annual Meeting
• Attracts 500 museum professionals, volunteers, trustees, and
other colleagues from the cultural community for:
– Sessions, panel discussions, and workshops
– Keynote speakers and “Feature Speaker” forums
– Tours of local museums and historic sites
– Exhibit Hall and Vendor demonstrations
– Affinity Group Meetings
– Regional Museum Association Meetings
– Networking opportunities
51. 2010 Annual Meeting Highlights
• Keynote speaker Nina Simon, Principal of Museum 2.0,
addressed opening luncheon of 250 and presented a follow-
up session with 150 participants
• Keynote speaker Barbara Bush, former First Lady, addressed
the closing luncheon of 250
• Feature speaker Ford Bell, President of AAM, addressed
opening luncheon of 250 and lent expertise in small groups
• Feature speakers Beth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for
the Future of Museums, and Peter Bishop, Futurist and
coordinator of the graduate program in Futures Studies,
University of Houston, directed a working group on scenario
planning for the future of Texas Museums
52. More Highlights
• Offsite behind-the-scenes-tour of the Conservation Research
Laboratory at Texas A&M University working on the LaSalle
Shipwreck Project. Q&A with nautical archeologists.
• Over $6,000 in scholarship money provided by Affinity Groups
and Regional Organizations to assist accessibility, including
first-time GLBT scholarship award
• Mitchell A. Wilder Publication Design Awards Competition
honored 21 winners at 14 institutions
• Participants included over 40 university students
• Participants included 10% first-time attendees
53. TAM Affinity Groups
• AMAG Art Museums Affinity Group
• CMC Collection Managers Committee
• HSHAG Historic Site/House Affinity Group
• TAMEC TAM Educators Committee
• MIC Multicultural Initiatives Committee
• MELT Museum Emerging Leaders of Texas
54. Pro & Con: TAM Annual Meeting
• TAM seeks to improve technology and
availability of online meeting facilitation tools
• Discussions need a forum for follow-up
• Balance is often a challenge (small/large)
• High-value opportunity for job seekers
• High-value opportunity for collaborations,
resource sharing, development leads
• Relaxed environment
55. 2011 TAM Annual Meeting
• 2011 Theme: A Place to Discover
• Irving, TX, August 4-6, 2011
• Host Chair: Irving Arts Center
• Conference hotel: OMNI Mandalay,
Las Colinas (TAM rate $105 per night)
• Registration opens online May 2011
57. • @dublincore
• #dcmi10
• Proceedings Available
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs
• Attendance
– Library, information science
– Industry
– International
• Conference rotates between Asia, North America & Europe
– Next Year, Europe TBA
58. • DCMI Highlights
– Community is actively struggling with the
necessity of the DC Abstract Model and its
relationship to RDF
– Implications for the DC Application Profile
specification
– Focus on “linked data” and implications for DCMI
recommendations
59. • Papers
– The Case for Implementing Core Descriptive
Embedded Metadata at the Smithsonian
Christensen & Dunlap
– The One to One Principle: Challenges to Current
Practice
Steve Miller
– Building Metadata Application Framework for
Chinese Digital Library: A Case Study of National
Digital Library of China
Yunyun Shen, Long Xiao, Ying Feng
60. • Posters
– Towards a Premodern Manuscript Application Profile
Sheila Bair, Susan Steuer
– Universal Access to Cultural Heritage Material: The
Europeana Resolution Discovery Service for
Persistent Identifiers
Lars G. Svensson
– Creating Collection-Level Metadata: A TELDAP Case
Study
Hsueh-hua Chen, Chiung-min Tsai, Ya-Chen Ho
61. • American Society of Information Science &
Technology (ASIS&T)
– http://www.asist.org
– Established in 1968
(formerly the American Documentation Institute)
• ASIS&T and MCN have held a joint meeting in the past
– Conference proceedings published by the
Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) Digital
Library (but many can be found in individual
authors’ websites)
62. • @asist2010
– #asist2010
– In conjunction with:
• the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM)
– Workshops like Getting Started with Business Taxonomy Design
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Four tracks:
– Information User/Behavior
– Information Retrieval
– Information Systems, Interactivity, Design
– Knowledge Management (industry)
– Information in Context (economic, cultural, policy)
63. • Museum Highlights
– Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for
Scholarly Use
Carole Palmer, Oksana Zavalina and Katrina Fenlon
– Digital Cultural Collections in an Age of Reuse and Remixes
Kristin R. Eschenfelder and Michelle Caswell
– Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage
Institutions: Case of PREMIS
Daniel Alemneh and Samantha Hastings
– How Historians use Historical Newspapers
Robert Allen and Robert Sieczkiewicz
– ImageSieve: Exploratory Search of Museum Archives with Named Entity-
Based Faceted Browsing
Yiling Lin, Jaewook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky and Daqing He
– Rule Categories for Collection/Item Metadata Relationships
Karen Wickett, Allen Renear and Richard Urban
64. • Papers (con’t)
– Katz Out of the Bag: The Broader Privacy
Ramifications of Using Facebook
Shannon Oltmann
– How and Why Scholars Cite on Twitter
Jason Priem and Kaitlin Light Costello
– Triggering Memories with Online Maps
S. Tejaswi Peesapati, Victoria Schwanda, Johnathon
Schultz and Dan Cosley
– Questions are Content: A Taxonomy of Questions in a
Microblogging Environment
Miles Efron and Megan Winget
66. Future Events
• ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit
March 30 - April 3, 2011
Denver, CO
http://iasummit.org
• Annual Meeting
October 7-12, 2011
New Orleans, LA
• Also check out regional chapters for events
http://asist.org/sigschapters.html
90. Truisms
• Mobile phones are Borg-like tech: Every new
technology they encounter, they absorb (video,
camera, gps…) @justlikeair
• Great mobile products are created, never ported.
@justlikeair
• "Web content management systems are the
mainframes of the mobile era.” @grigs
• Next gen CMS systems separate content from the
style presentation layer: single content entry,
many devices display @justlikeair
91. Audiences
• Who is your audience? Focus on audience as well as
hardware
• Users often misbehave, and they don’t follow the path you
expect
• "If someone runs into a poll using your mobile product it's
their own damn fault!”
• 3 minute rule: what were users doing 3 min before & 3 min
after?
• 3 motivations for mobile: I'm micro tasking, I'm local or I'm
bored
92. Contexts
• What role does mobile vs tablet play, integrated
cross-platform with technology & artifacts
• In-room or lobby experiences
• Car dealership as museum
• How can visitors to IBM briefing center influence
the experience, give mobile info as they are
coming in…
– Co-discovery, figuring out people’s tacit knowledge –
how do we discover that manipulating objects
– eLearning: can people come together to create a
world-wide museum?
93. People
• Itai Vonshak: @vonsh
– iPhone demo from Auntie Kath, aged 91: http://bit.ly/9Fr3Rk
– "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy" http://bit.ly/199gT1
• Cory Pressman @exprima
• Josh Clark @GlobalMoxie: see his book Tapworthy on designing
iPhone Apps from oreilly.com
• Jason Grigsby @grigs
• Luke Wroblewski @lukew see blog post Mobile First:
http://bit.ly/aIKxMs
• Oliver Weidlich @oliverw
• Rod Farmer @rodfarmer
• Shane Pearlman @justlikeair
94. Notes & Resources
• http://bit.ly/aLVzNr
• http://bit.ly/cBKFYh
• http://bit.ly/cqZyTo
• http://bit.ly/9J7NNd
• http://www.mobileactive.org – global mobile for social
• good@designcaffeine: Slides from my #d4m2010 talk:
Designing Resourceful Mobile E-Commerce Search
http://slidesha.re/d2Yshv
98. Thank you
Reminder: please fill out a conference evaluation form at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MCN2010
This presentation will be available on Slideshare at
http://www.slideshare.net/event/museum-computer-network-2010
Editor's Notes
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as leading museums, key research centers, and some of the world's most forward-thinking companies.
Initiatives and Projects:
Emerging Technology Initiative
New Scholarship Initiative
New Media & Learning
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