Museums and the Web: Current Issues

Museums and the Web:
Current Issues
J. Trant | Archives & Museum Informatics | www.archimuse.com

January 24, 2009

whitehouse.gov – with a blog on the front page


on-line activism


Jane Sledge’s photos of the Inauguration taken from the terrace of the
National Museum of the American Indian.

Availability of Data: Satellite images of Inauguration


Not Just Current Events: Historical Geography


Museum Collections in Context: Prado Museum in Google Earth


Prado in Google Earth: Place building in urban context


Prado in Google Earth: Explore building


Prado in Google Earth: Explore building in detail

Prado in Google Earth: Explore some of the collection


Prado in Google Earth: See cataloguing


Prado in Google Earth: Explore painting


Prado in Google Earth: Explore painting in detail


Issue: Only possible for a few works

Prado in Google Earth: Explore painting in detail


On-line Collections: Powerhouse Museum: Most popular item


On-line Collections: Powerhouse Museum:


On-line Collections: Powerhouse Museum: First “delta goodrem dress” on Google


On-line Collections: Powerhouse Museum: Tags helped fans identify it


Most Tags not found in Museum Cataloguing

Found
14%
Not Found
86%

steve.museum: multi-institutional research project

Issue: Enabling effective collections search


Flickr Commons: Museum images in public photo space


Flickr Commons: Sample images


Flickr Commons: A Powerhouse Museum work


Flickr Commons: A video feature exploring that work


Flickr Commons: A Library of Congress work with description


Flickr Commons: A Library of Congress work with description corrected


Flickr Commons: Corrections from user tags, notes and comments


Flickr Commons: Different type of comments


Flickr Commons: Tag Game

Flickr Commons: Then and Now


For the Common Good:
The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project
• 10.4 million views

• 79% of the 4,615 photos have been made a “favorite”

• More than 15,000 Flickr members made Library of Congress
a ‘contact’

• 7,166 comments were left on 2,873 photos by 2,562 unique
Flickr accounts.

• 67,176 tags from 2,518 unique Flickr accounts.

• 40% from 10 super-taggers

• 98% of photos given at least one tag.

• < 25 cases of inappropriate content

Indiecommons: a blog for the Commons Community


ArtShare on Facebook


ArtShare on Facebook: Participating Museums


Art on Personal Proﬁle Pages


Issue: Changing platforms ...


YouTube: The Black List Project. Participatory Media.
“Using kiosks in the gallery, visitors are sharing their personal experiences related
to race and the impact it has had on their lives and accomplishments.”

YouTube: The Black List Project. Active and responsive community


YouTube: The Blacklist Project: Featured Video


Brooklyn Museum Blog: How it was done...


Brooklyn Museum Blog: The Black List Project. In-gallery installation


Mattress Factory: iConfess quick capture video


Issue: managing user generated content over time

Mattress Factory: iConfess quick capture video


Twitter: a microblogging platform


Twitter: Signiﬁcant usage, with peaks around major events


Twitter: Analysing behaviour using twitter as evidence


Twitter: 1st fans @ Brooklyn Museum


Twitter: What do you get as a 1st fan?


Wikipedia Loves Art:


Wikipedia Loves Art: Bridging Wikipedia, Flickr and Museum Collections


Wikipedia Loves Art: Yes – you can make the rules complicated!


Issue: Working with what’s already happening

Wikipedia Loves Art: Yes – you can make the rules complicated!


Social Network for Single Museum: Shedd Aquarium’s own site


Issue: Our space or public space?

Social Network for Single Museum: Shedd Aquarium’s own site


Expectations of participation are changing


Issue: On-line parallels to events - whether you want them or not


Issue: Policy questions


Pew Internet and American Life Survey:
Adults and Social Network Websites
➡ 35% of American adults have a proﬁle on an
on-line social network site.
80%

60%

40%

20%

0%
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
Age


Webkinz: Mixed reality for kids


Webkinz: Stuffed toys have ‘life’ online


Webkinz: Rooms, spaces, things to do


Webkinz: some kids have lots of rooms ...


Webkinz: Your toy talks to you


Webkinz: Chat with your friends and invite them over


Issue: expectations of inter-penetrated spaces

Webkinz: Chat with your friends and invite them over


Bring the collection out of the museum: National Museum of the American Indian


putting the Museum
where the people are
enable use + re-use of museum content

today’s examples @
http://delicious.com/jtrant/jtrant-tokyo-0901

my blog @


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