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In this paper we illustrate how Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), combining lightweight information architecture with advanced search paradigms (like faceted search) and interactive visualization strategies, can be used to better support a number of communication goals.

Museums are quickly adapting to Web 2.0, and engaging with a new on-line audience. Social media projects are being developed and used by museum staff, and curators are starting to explore this new space. When the Powerhouse Museum's curatorial department created their first blog, they had no idea what they were in for, or what challenges they would face. They also had little idea of how curators as a whole are participating in social media activities. This paper will use the Powerhouse Museum's 'Object of the Week' blog and a major international survey of curators to investigate how social media activities are impacting on curatorial practice.

This paper looks at the use of cell phones for tours of cultural sites in Europe. Although several projects have experimented with IVR, SMS and even multimedia tours on standard and next-generation networks, take-up of this platform by museums has remained low in comparison to US activity, despite cell phone usage being more wide-spread and longer-developed than in North America. Through case studies of recent phone tour projects at Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we examine what the key differences and similarities are between phone-based tours on the two continents, and what each can learn from the other.

"ECHO (Education Through Cultural and Historical Organizations), a partnership of six widely dispersed cultural institutions, fosters that learning. Individual missions vary, but the ECHO partners all seek to enhance appreciation of regional heritage;"

This year MuseumNext will focus on 'What's Next' and will use this call for papers to create a programme that is structured around eight key themes. These will be directed by the proposals submitted from our community to highlight the direction in which museums and technology are heading.

The following manuscript, consisting of 281 handwritten pages of unlined drawing paper, was discovered in the studio of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) shortly after his death. Recorded as Lot 49 in the legendary 1918 auction of Degas's collection, the manuscript was purchased by economist John Maynard Keynes, who attended the sale as a buyer for the London National Gallery. The pages apparently remained in Keynes's possession until his death in 1946.

This new book brings together papers given at a recent major conference jointly organised by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University (the world's first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication) and Liberty Science Center (the New Jersey-New York City region's largest education resource).

Salgado untersucht Partizipation von interaktiven Auststellungsstücken. Sie entwirft anhand von 6 Fallbeispielen Paramter zur Entwicklgn und Beurteilung von Partizipation: * Theme (chosen for participation, and the openess with wihich it is presented) * Atmosphere (of the piece) * Input-output modalities * Accessibility * Time: Ties to the actual time of the visit * Community: Ties to the community Konference-Beitrag an der "Museums an the Web"-Konference, 2008 in Motreal

"Papercraft Toys by Bryan. Print. Cut. Fold. Tape. "

Where Do We Go From Here? Continuing with Web 2.0 at the Brooklyn Museum "As we moved forward with Web 2.0 and social media in 2007, we had two objectives in mind while overhauling earlier initiatives and creating new projects for visitors: * Keep it real: We aimed to personalize content as much as possible, since Web 2.0 for the Brooklyn Museum is all about social connections and growing communities. * Deliver content their way: Museum surveys have shown that visitors want to consume more information in shorter visits. Hence, we wanted to allow our audiences to easily receive information from the Museum, and dynamically share it with others. We continued to focus on our community-oriented, visitor-centered mission, and these goals became paramount as we thought about (and adjusted) our early initiatives; they also served as philosophical barometers when we created new projects. "

"Next event: UK Museums on the Web (#ukmw11) will be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, on Friday, 25 November 2011. Join the MCG email list or follow @ukmcg on twitter for updates. View call for papers, deadline for submission of proposal 2 September 2011."

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The next Stage: Moving from isolated digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries: Online collections do not yet function like conventional libraries. Many digital collections are experimental and lack service components, and few have preservation components. The function of searching across collections is a dream frequently discussed but seldom realized at a robust level. This paper places a conceptual framework upon digital library development, and discusses how we might move from isolated digital collections to interoperable digital libraries.

Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures. The report looked back 25 years to 1984 as it predicted what museums will look like 25 years from now.

Trends and Potential Futures of the museum. The report looked back 25 years to 1984 as it predicted what museums will look like 25 years from now. Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled Museums & Society 2034:

"Sente 6 is the next-generation academic reference manager. Sente helps you find, organize, review and cite the academic literature in your field, and it does it in ways that you have probably not thought possible before. Sente also helps you build and maintain your library of PDF files for these references, because having ready access to the full text of important articles can be critical. Sente also excels at properly formatting bibliographies in your papers, but you probably already knew that. "

Materialsammlung zur Konferenz "The Transformative Museum", Roskilde University, Denmark

SPEAKERS Josephine Bosma (nl): Acceptable Loss. Tales of Life and Death in the Digital RealmThis paper is based on an essay from my book. It is a case study and comparison of two projects in the digital domain that deal with memory and conservation. Anne Laforet (fr) Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and ArtistsArtists have appropriated the Internet as soon as it became public to experiment new artistic, social and technical practices.

User participation Focus on the 'critical success factors' for user participation: what are the conditions, do's or don'ts, to make user participation really work? Are there any crucial or determining (external and internal) factors to take into account when developing user involvement strategies?"

"How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector - museums, archives, galleries, arts organizations, libraries and publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards. The result is a confusing mixture of statistics and reporting that reveals little about genuine user satisfaction."