what will the museum of the future be like?
Wikimedia@MW2010
We're hosting a pre-conference workshop at Museums and the Web 2010 that will bring together wikimedians and museum people from around the world.
Our goal, through some face-to-face conversation, is move through some of the policy and procedural questions that have proven stumbling blocks to date, and scope out ways we can truly collaborate.
In preparation for the workshop [described here] we're asking people to contribute their ideas and observations. We want to shape the agenda based on real issues and concerns, and need your input to be sure that happens.
So please, let us know your thoughts about museum / wikip|media collaboration! We're using a forum in the Museums and the Web online community at http://conference.archimuse.com/forums/wikimediamw2010 to collect concerns and suggestions.
Thanks in advance for helping us make our time together as productive as possible.
/jennifer
Our goal, through some face-to-face conversation, is move through some of the policy and procedural questions that have proven stumbling blocks to date, and scope out ways we can truly collaborate.
In preparation for the workshop [described here] we're asking people to contribute their ideas and observations. We want to shape the agenda based on real issues and concerns, and need your input to be sure that happens.
So please, let us know your thoughts about museum / wikip|media collaboration! We're using a forum in the Museums and the Web online community at http://conference.archimuse.com/forums/wikimediamw2010 to collect concerns and suggestions.
Thanks in advance for helping us make our time together as productive as possible.
/jennifer
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Permalink Reply by Gerard Meijssen on -
A special category of museums and archives are those who have material that is of specific interest to countries and cultures outside of the country where the GLAM is located. These museums often have a colonial past or are ethnographic museums. These museums are special because their collection represents a shared cultural heritage; the one of the country where the museum is located and the countries items of the collections originated.
By sharing its collection at Wikimedia Commons, the Tropenmuseum made its collection available to the world and, its collection became available to the people from Suriname and Indonesia and also to the rest of the world. Several items of the collection have been digitally restored and became great illustrations as well as "featured pictures".
When more material and collections about Suriname or Indonesia find their way to Commons, slowly but surely a more comprehensive collection becomes available bringing history to life. The challenge is to bring the material together, work on the annotations, geo tagging and include the images in articles.
In the end it is about bringing history and culture alive, this gives the GLAMs contemporary relevance and it gives the people who learn about this and from this a sense of history.
Thanks,
GerardM -
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