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May 2008 Blog Posts (8)

Some future trends for the Internet and museums

I was part of a panel at a seminar - "Collections and the Web: Audiences, Content and Technologies" - organised by CAN (Collections Australia Network) on Tuesday, 27 May: "Future Trends". I began with a short presentation in which I attempted to plot a number of future possibilities in terms of probability and desirability:

  • Spam to increase (almost certain), which may lead to...
  • The total collapse of email, as we now…
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Added by Jonathan Cooper on May 29, 2008 at 11:00am — 9 Comments

More new posts at Fresh & New - some thoughts on APIs and augmented reality

Some new posts over at Fresh & New might be of interest.

On APIs.

On augmented reality.

Added by Seb Chan on May 28, 2008 at 11:15pm — 2 Comments

New at Fresh & New - Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and 'architectures of participation'

I've just posted a long and slightly rambling (as usual) reflection on the activities of the past few weeks both virtual and physical.



I talk about a few things I've been at recently - Museum Australia's Museum Futures, a State Library reference librarians conference - and some things I've been reading.…



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Added by Seb Chan on May 27, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Futures Forum - blog updates

Over at Social Media in Museums blog, I've uploaded notes on the two day conference!
Read it here! http://nlablog.wordpress.com/

Added by Angelina Russo on May 20, 2008 at 12:36pm — No Comments

Arts and Humanities Research Council collaborative doctoral award: the internet and the archive

This is a call for applications for a PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh: co-supervised by Sian Bayne, the principal investigator on the National Museums Online Learning Project research strand.





School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), UK



This studentship, fully funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, with additional funding from the collaborating… Continue

Added by jen on May 16, 2008 at 1:39am — No Comments

Inclusive Museum conference, Leiden

I'm working on a paper for the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden in June. The paper will focus on inclusive online museum learning, and the National Museums Online Learning Project in particular. It's structured around four key concepts: reach, relevance, relationship and recontextualisation, and touches on themes of the digital vs physical museum, the shift in museum learning from a focus on objects to a focus on users, what 'quality' means in online learning, tensions in schools between… Continue

Added by jen on May 16, 2008 at 1:15am — No Comments

New blog post on Fresh & New - Commons on Flickr update

See over at http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/05/06/commons-on-flickr-one-month-later/ for the latest update on the Powerhouse in the Commons.

Added by Seb Chan on May 6, 2008 at 10:39pm — 1 Comment

New interview up at Fresh & New - AWM on collection-oriented blogging

I've done and posted a huge interview with the Australian War Memorial's Mal Booth, Liz Holcombe and Adam Bell over at Fresh & New.



http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/05/06/rich-collection-oriented-curator-blogging-an-interview-with-the-australian-war-memorial/



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Added by Seb Chan on May 6, 2008 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

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