Can you recommend Museums in Europe with interesting information technology?

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Permalink Reply by Monika Lechner on October 6, 2009 at 1:53am

Dear Machi,

I know of a few examples of museums in Holland that are participating in a pilot project called CATCH (plus): Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage. There all kinds of explorations with Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web are made. But I am afraid you will not find this presented in the museums themselves yet. If you want to find out more, here is the website:
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5XSKYG_Eng

And here is the brochure (pdf): http://www.nwo.nl/files.nsf/pages/NWOA_79BCX8/$file/CATCH%20Factsheet_lowres.pdf

However, there is a very good museum on (information) technology in Austria: Ars Electronica. Their website is also available in Japanese: http://www.aec.at/index_de.php

I hope this was useful for you! Kind regards, Monika

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Permalink Reply by Machi Takahashi on October 6, 2009 at 12:47pm

Dear Monika,

Thank you so much for kindly introducing the information about CATCH.
It is very interesting and I will definitely study this in detail.
In our lab, we invite interns from the industrial department of TU/e, NL, every year.
I have also lived in Eindhoven for 6 months, and am especially excited to find out about CATCH.
Is there a contact person in TU/e to find out more about their contribution to the project?

For 2009 ars electronica festival, the human size android from our lab attended...
....wonder if anybody has seen it.
http://www.aec.at/humannature/en/category/featured-science-art


Thank you very much again. It was very useful for me.
Kind regards,
Machi

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Permalink Reply by Mia on October 6, 2009 at 11:30pm

The British Museum will be experimenting with the semantic web; the Science Museum (London) is experimenting with linked data and RDFa.

You could also search the archives of the international Museums and the Web conference for past papers (http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html)

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Permalink Reply by Paul Reynolds on October 9, 2009 at 1:56pm

You should talk to web people at the V&A, London.
They have a new collections search interface. Has some neat features.
Also, talk to Nick Poole at the Collection Trust about Culture Grid.
Finally, Jan Finnis and her team at Culture 24 should also be on your radar.

I am interested in what you mean by " the semantic web' - would be great if you could be more specific about the kinds of things you are interested in ?

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