Starts with results of an informal poll conducted among museum technology professionals at MCN 2011. Continues with 4 more in-depth case studies: the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Tate, MoMA, and the Walker Art Center (WAC). What are the impacts of digital publishing on organizational structures, workflows, and institutional voice? Presented in Rotterdam at DISH 2011.
Connecting XForms to Databases: An Extension to the XForms Markup LanguageMarkku Laine
Our presentation at the W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications (DMDWA'07).
by Markku Laine, http://www.tinyurl.com/mplaine, Mikko Honkala, and Oskari Koskimies
Connecting XForms to Databases: An Extension to the XForms Markup LanguageMarkku Laine
Our presentation at the W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications (DMDWA'07).
by Markku Laine, http://www.tinyurl.com/mplaine, Mikko Honkala, and Oskari Koskimies
This provides 26 trends for the "Outernet," the virtual space that's in front of us when viewed via Augmented Reality or other geeky measures. Thanks to Steve Raikow who did the awesome graphics.
A lunch lecture was given at Differ (www.differ.nl) about another method of sequestering CO2. Olivine is one of the minerals that can be used for the application. It details three routes for CO2 sequestration. A focus is given on the development of a process intensification. This would increase the geological reaction rate to process engineering time scale.
The proposed process has got a parallel in the "VerTech process" as established in the 1990's in Apeldoorn (the Netherlands).
The lecture was from global scale (focussing on amounts of CO2 involved) down to atomic scale.
Experience Mining and Dialogues with a Pattern Language for Creative LearningTakashi Iba
Presentation in the workshop held at the International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs2011) in Basel, Switzerland, Sep. 9, 2011. In this workshop, participants talk about their experiences of learning with other participants, using the vocabulary provided in the Learning Patterns. The video of this presentation is available at the Livestream site http://www.livestream.com/coinsconference
This session is for those who are excited by the great power of Apache Solr search for Drupal and want to take things even further. Do you want take complete control over your search interface and offer more than the default features? Have you ever wondered what it takes to add data to your search index? Curious about defining facets, custom sorting, or making cool new widgets for filtering and faceting? Join us for a technical deep dive into the world of Solr search.
The general topics of this presentation will overlap with those covered at Drupalcon SF for the Drupal 6 version, but we will focus on use of the API as found in the Drupal 7 version.
Introducing the Solr index
* Learn about Solr fields, and how to map Drupal data onto them
* See how to add data to the search index
* Execute a search in PHP code and use the results
Using the API for custom search paths and interfaces
* How to use the prepare and alter hooks for the query object, and why they differ.
* Make use facing changes, or add filters that are transparent to the user.
Build custom facets based on node fields
* What comes OOTB
* Hooks to add facets for additional field types
Summary presentation for the monthly Twin Cities Eloqua user group held the last Tuesday of every month at the Relationship One office - www.relationshipone.com for more information.
Until recently, most low carbon retrofits have been carried out by experts and enthusiasts on their own houses. However, retrofit needs to move rapidly into the mass market if we are to meet our carbon reduction targets. What if occupants are not experts? Is "usability" dependent on context, user goals, and the user's ability to achieve these with "effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction" a useful framework for assessing the success of low carbon retrofit? Do the goals of users match those of designers? What evidence is there of good and poor usability in low carbon retrofit?
Residents’ primary motivations for involvement were reduced fuel bills and improved comfort, rather than green issues. Initial monitoring has revealed the importance of usability and personal control in achieving these aims for the residents. In this they are likely to be closer to the typical mass-market customer than the early pioneers.
Marianne Heasleip from URBED presented initial findings from a set of linked case studies of completed low carbon whole house retrofits in the social housing sector the UK. Her findings point to the importance of matters such as the specification of controls, the quality of handover information, the importance of communication whilst the works are in progress and the need for ongoing customer care. This is likely to have management and cost implications in any mass market retrofit scheme. She suggests that usability should indeed be a significant concern for designers, of both whole houses and individual products, at strategic and tactical levels.
This provides 26 trends for the "Outernet," the virtual space that's in front of us when viewed via Augmented Reality or other geeky measures. Thanks to Steve Raikow who did the awesome graphics.
A lunch lecture was given at Differ (www.differ.nl) about another method of sequestering CO2. Olivine is one of the minerals that can be used for the application. It details three routes for CO2 sequestration. A focus is given on the development of a process intensification. This would increase the geological reaction rate to process engineering time scale.
The proposed process has got a parallel in the "VerTech process" as established in the 1990's in Apeldoorn (the Netherlands).
The lecture was from global scale (focussing on amounts of CO2 involved) down to atomic scale.
Experience Mining and Dialogues with a Pattern Language for Creative LearningTakashi Iba
Presentation in the workshop held at the International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs2011) in Basel, Switzerland, Sep. 9, 2011. In this workshop, participants talk about their experiences of learning with other participants, using the vocabulary provided in the Learning Patterns. The video of this presentation is available at the Livestream site http://www.livestream.com/coinsconference
This session is for those who are excited by the great power of Apache Solr search for Drupal and want to take things even further. Do you want take complete control over your search interface and offer more than the default features? Have you ever wondered what it takes to add data to your search index? Curious about defining facets, custom sorting, or making cool new widgets for filtering and faceting? Join us for a technical deep dive into the world of Solr search.
The general topics of this presentation will overlap with those covered at Drupalcon SF for the Drupal 6 version, but we will focus on use of the API as found in the Drupal 7 version.
Introducing the Solr index
* Learn about Solr fields, and how to map Drupal data onto them
* See how to add data to the search index
* Execute a search in PHP code and use the results
Using the API for custom search paths and interfaces
* How to use the prepare and alter hooks for the query object, and why they differ.
* Make use facing changes, or add filters that are transparent to the user.
Build custom facets based on node fields
* What comes OOTB
* Hooks to add facets for additional field types
Summary presentation for the monthly Twin Cities Eloqua user group held the last Tuesday of every month at the Relationship One office - www.relationshipone.com for more information.
Until recently, most low carbon retrofits have been carried out by experts and enthusiasts on their own houses. However, retrofit needs to move rapidly into the mass market if we are to meet our carbon reduction targets. What if occupants are not experts? Is "usability" dependent on context, user goals, and the user's ability to achieve these with "effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction" a useful framework for assessing the success of low carbon retrofit? Do the goals of users match those of designers? What evidence is there of good and poor usability in low carbon retrofit?
Residents’ primary motivations for involvement were reduced fuel bills and improved comfort, rather than green issues. Initial monitoring has revealed the importance of usability and personal control in achieving these aims for the residents. In this they are likely to be closer to the typical mass-market customer than the early pioneers.
Marianne Heasleip from URBED presented initial findings from a set of linked case studies of completed low carbon whole house retrofits in the social housing sector the UK. Her findings point to the importance of matters such as the specification of controls, the quality of handover information, the importance of communication whilst the works are in progress and the need for ongoing customer care. This is likely to have management and cost implications in any mass market retrofit scheme. She suggests that usability should indeed be a significant concern for designers, of both whole houses and individual products, at strategic and tactical levels.
Slides from my Web Directions @Media London talk, 27 May 2011.
Looking through the lenses of industrial design, architecture and animation, I talk about the skills interaction designers will need in the future and my experiments / experiences.
MW17 Closing plenary: Creating the Visitor-centered MuseumPeter Samis
A rare opportunity to come full circle: 10 years ago I presented about an interpretive evaluation that showed that even if our digital interpretive resources made a huge difference for those who used them, most visitors didn't. For five years I've been researching and co-writing a book on innovative museums that use more holistic ways of reaching their visitors. Here's the presentation I gave. (I was followed by Merilee Mostov, Director of Inclusive Interpretation at the Columbus Museum of Art--one of our ten case study museums.)
"Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum" Book Launch at OMCAPeter Samis
My new book co-authored with Mimi Michaelson, titled "Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum," was the subject of an event at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) on Friday, February 3, 2017. I presented the accompanying slide deck as a backgrounder for a dialogue with OMCA Director and CEO Lori Fogarty before we both took questions from the audience. A great and stimulating time, with friends, students, and colleagues from near and far. Many thanks to the John F. Kennedy University Museum Studies Program and OMCA for organizing it!
The XY&Z of Digital Storytelling: Dramaturgy, directionality and designPeter Samis
Talk presented at Museums & the Web 2015 in Chicago on April 9, 2015. Co-authored with Tim Svenonius, it's a reflection on how digital narratives have become more efficient--for instance, cross-platform compatible--but less affecting, and an appeal to find more original ways to tell our stories.
Visitor-Centered: What Does it Mean to Walk that Talk?Peter Samis
Presented at the National Museum of Denmark to a mixed audience of Nationalmuseet curators, educators, and staff from other Danish museums. The presentation addresses responsiveness to visitor needs in developing interpretive components and gallery design. I followed the talk with a hands-on workshop in which participants wrote labels in new ways, observed visitors, and edited their galleries with visitor experience in mind. Part of a 2-day symposium organized by Mette Boritz of the National Museum.
Drawing from the Well of Language: Droughts, Floods, and Flows of MeaningPeter Samis
An attempt to distill some rules of thumb for museum interpretation, covering the spectrum from analog to digital. Delivered to an international audience of museum professionals in Yerevan, Armenia on October 21, 2012.
A slightly enlarged version of a talk given on the panel "Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication" with Allegra Burnette, Costis Dallas, Lev Manovich, Susan Hazan, and Sarah Kenderdine. Museums & the Web, San Diego, CA, April 13, 2012. The discussion was just getting underway when the hour ended!
Creating Dramas of Context, Communities of InterestPeter Samis
A presentation given in various forms at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the University of Texas at Austin, and most recently via videoconference at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Presented in London at Tate Modern's symposium, "Museums & Mobiles in the Age of Social Media," on Sept. 7, 2010. Talks about the explosion of the old single provider audio tour model in the face of apps, museums assuming a greater role in their own mobile content creation, and some visitors (though by no means all) wanting to use their own personal devices. How will museums bring their mobile multimedia interpretation to a broader public than the ones who own iPhones? Suggests opportunity spaces born of the disruption in this field.
Closing keynote given at the Museum Educators of Southern California Summer Workshop on June 25, 2010. It starts with a nod to John Seely Brown and his wisdom about solution confusion in rapidly changing technological times, then explores the boundaries between traditionally siloed museum departments that are merging/under threat in this new environment. From there a brief history of the role for new media interpretation in museums (art and otherwise), a summary of the Visual Velcro idea, and the role of mobile multimedia in supplying hooks to the hookless. Finally a summary of "Making Sense of Modern Art Mobile," and the implications of taking on publication and distribution of a mobile tour in-house. Ends with future plans and questions about the integration of social media in such publications.
After the heroism, collaboration: Organizational learning and the mobile spacePeter Samis
A presentation given with my colleague and co-author Stephanie Pau on April 16, 2009 at Museums & the Web in Indianapolis. It starts out with a report of inter-departmental collaboration around interpretation planning for exhibitions at SFMOMA and then focuses on mobile technologies, including the results of two evaluations indicating visitor preferences. Finally, we outline future directions for mobile multimedia development at SFMOMA.
The eyes want to have it: Multimedia Handhelds in the Museum (an evolving story)Peter Samis
A variant of this presentation, titled "Knowledge on Demand, Knowledge in Hand: Visitor-centered mobile multimedia," was delivered on 3 October 2008 at the conference "Knowledge in Demand '08" in Bern, Switzerland.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. Let‘s DISH:
―Rapid digitisation is the defining trend in today‘s
society. The public expects their institutions to be
as active on the Internet as they are.‖
―How do you equip yourself for these new
roles, that demand new functions and
new competencies in your
organisation?‖
-from the DISH 2011 Call for Entries
3. And equally importantly:
How do we use the digital as an agent
of change in how we relate to our
publics?
Multiplying modes, venues, voices…
8. We conducted an un-scientific survey.
Attendees at the Museum Computer Network conference:
• Museum director
• Web Editor
• Exhibit Developer
• IT Systems Analyst
• Curator
• Marketing & Communications Officer
• Education
• New Media Initiatives
• Visitor Services
• Publications Associate
9. Question: Do you see digital publishing platforms
changing the organization’s structure?
• Pool of content creators has increased dramatically.
• New kinds of workflows, less hierarchies.
• New functional organisation, new positions, new
relationships between departments (more intensive
collaboration, publication planning on a longer term, trend of
digital content co-production).
• The way we conceive of transmitting information
has changed.
• The need for dedicated digital content staff is
apparent and overdue.
• and…
10. Question: Do you see digital publishing platforms
changing the organization’s structure?
―Not sure it will happen, but
there is a lot of
pressure.”
11. Question: If multiple departments self-publish, what are
the impacts, if any, on institutional voice?
• It is appropriately diverse.
• Quality of content & writing is impacted…
• Not sure I believe in ‗institutional voice‘. I don‘t
think this is important anymore. So I think the
impact is that this concept itself is going away.
• Subject matter is often at odds with institutional
goals.
• What institutional voice? (That was a joke.)
12. Question: Do you see digital media as a democratizing
force in your organization? If so, how?
• Yes, digital media is less controlled by curators and
is deeper rooted in the organization.
• It certainly broadens the pool of people who get to
be custodians of the Museum‘s mission…
• Yes, relatively young, junior staff are taking on
more responsibility for being the institution‘s voice
and our audiences are also part of our brand now.
• Yes, in that younger staff members who are not part
of the curatorial staff have a way to contribute
stories and content via the blog or social media,
whereas 10 years ago these staff would have had no
voice.
14. A partial Timeline
2005: Building renovated/technology refresh.
2007: Website relaunch.
2009: IMA Lab founded.
2010: Website re-relaunch, with a difference:
Designed & built in-house.
2010: New Division of Research, Technology,
& Engagement under Rob Stein
18. An emphasis on
Research.
Objective #3 in their new Strategic
Plan:
Establish the IMA as a research leader
among its peers in the areas of art
history, conservation science,
information science, and visitor
studies.
19. An emphasis on
Research.
Goal #4:
• Become an organization where
models for evaluation are
conceived, implemented, and
shared
• Commit to long-term evaluation &
the analysis of results as part of
routine planning processes
20. The Education Dept.
has been renamed
Audience Engagement.
“We’re in the process of defining what
that means.”
–Rob Stein
But it will be data-driven.
22. Emphasis on Conversational Engagement:
• Free-choice learning
• Intrinsic motivation
• Critical thinking
• Epiphanies
How do you measure an epiphany?
23. Wrestling with the Perceived Authority
of the museum in the minds of the
visitors.
“Authoritative” Authoritarian
= we have expertise and = demanding respect without
are willing to share it earning it
24.
25. Tate
Photo by chaoticzee, Creative Commons license
28. Leonardo Live in 40 cinemas around the country
“We need to be where the people are.” –Jane Burton
Director, Tate Media
29. ―Be everywhere all the time—and ideally, free to
everyone.‖ Sponsored & commissioned—not internally
funded.
• Legacy Trust
• Bloomberg
• SkyTV
• Channel 4
• BBC
• Even BP
Additional revenue through Tate Enterprise, digital catalogues,
freemium apps & games
30. ―The Artist is core.”
• The Physical
• The Virtual
• The Artist
31. Curators are becoming more active
collaborators.
―Their voices are present in the debate
along with the artists, along with other
cultural commentators, along with
museum visitors and experts in their own
fields.‖
In the Gallery • On the telly • Online • In the App
space • At the cinema • In people’s lives, everywhere
41. And a Re-org:
WALKER ART CENTER
Director
Chief of Audience Engagement
Chief of Operations and Chief of Finance and
and Communications, Curator of Chief Curator
Administration Development
Design and Architecture
Director, Education and Director, Senior Curator, Chief Financial Officer
Community Programs Human Resources Performing Arts
Director, Marketing and Director, Curator, Director,
Public Relations Merchandising Film/Video Annual Fund
Director, Director, Director, Special Projects
Facility Rentals Registrar
New Media Initiatives Fundraising
Director,
Design Director Librarian
Information Technology
Director, Director,
Building Operations Program Services
Assistant Director,
Visitor Services
Updated March, 2010
42. Now for something completely different:
• Education & New
Media report to new
chief
• New Journalist-Editor
mentors curators
• Builds their comfort
contributing to Web
• Online voices
multiplied