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As part of a series focusing on national identity and the future of the United Kingdom, we'd like to know what you think about the idea of being British and part of the UK. What sort of terms would you use to describe your nationality and how you fit into the UK as a whole? ("Liverpudlian, Welsh, Welsh-Irish, Black-british" - what words do you use if any?).

3DVisA was funded between 2006 and 2008 by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The Network was hosted by King's Visualisation Lab in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. It was an integral part of a wider UK Visualisation Support Network, VizNET, spanning the UK academic research community. This website documents some of 3DVisA activities and provides access to publications and resources created in 2006-2008, some of which continue to be maintained by King's Visualisation Lab. 3DVisA was also the Secretariat of The London Charter for the use of three-dimensional Visualisation in the Research and Communication of Cultural Heritage.

"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."

"UK Museums on the Web 2009: The everyday web: situated, sensory, social" Today, the Web is becoming increasingly a more multi-sensory place, with new visual interfaces, rich sound content, where content can adapt to our physical location, and even where interactions can be triggered by bodily movement. Likewise, software and services (just like our content) can today move with us. This year UKMW will look at digital heritage in the everyday - situated, sensory, social.

The annual UKMW conferences, convened by the Museums Computer Group, have long been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today. As the UK heritage sector continues to live through difficult times, this year's conference is an opportunity to reflect on the new landscape museums are now in, learn from inspiring speakers and network with your peers.

Hinweis aus der Museum Computer Gruppe. Online-Postkartendruck-Angebut aus MODES-Database (almost 15k images). Läuft über Google Shopping Cart Code.http://www.wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp? Der Erfolg wird als mässig beschrieben

Time travel through Bristol on the iPhone: The Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol project will launch a website later this week and an iPhone app at on July 28, allowing users to browse archive material and upload their own images of contemporary Bristol. It features 100 years of film and photography focused on six areas of Bristol, and invites users to superimpose archive material on a 3D model of contemporary shots - some of which were badly damaged during WW2, like Castle Park.

Diskussion Museum Computer Group: User generated / crowd-sourced geotagging? I'll just give one practical example..  Take an image such as one of the Normandy landings from the Imperial War Museum - http://bit.ly/cIr4zG.  The description tells us it was taken in Villers-Bocage.  I could then (or perhaps even an automated tool could) generate tags that put it in that locality.  And then someone who lives or visits there should be able to track it down pretty easily.  In fact people have done such things - see http://virtualfunzone.com/normandy-1944-then-and-now.html - but for all their effort, without that relatively small step that such a tool would have facilitated nothing has gone back to the original images.  Without that an opportunity of providing an enhanced experience, whether through a web tool like HistoryPin or via a mobile based AR app, is lost.

A small JISC grant has enabled a group of us to give public access tohistorical maps from the National Library of Scotland and Landmark (OSmaps).  The maps centre around Edinburgh but there is also a map from 1890 forLondon. It's a free app for the iPhone at the moment and if we have enoughsuccess we're hoping to encourage Landmark to release the maps for theentire UK. We'd appreciate any thoughts or comments from the museum group.

19th Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Records: You can search and download documents from a number of Poor Law Unions across England and Wales, from series reference MH 12. We are fortunate to be able to provide free access to the records because this is a project by The National Archives with the aid of, and in partnership with, volunteers in several parts of the country.

Blog des "Collections Trust":The Collections Trust is the new UK organisation for collections. Our aim is to improve the quality of life by ensuring that cultural collections are available for use and enjoyment by everyone, now and for the future. Infos zum Euopeana-Projekt, Collection-Management ect.

Social Media have become standard in journalists' workflows but complement traditional working tools. ... Results also show that Social Media are not replacing traditional channels but complement them. Almost 70% of journalists in all three countries state that they use traditional tools such as press releases, PRs and corporate websites as often today as they did three years ago.

Here is a post to inform you of two conferences that will take place at the end of November and beginning of December, one in London, one in Paris. Both are organised by the Wikimedia Foundation in partnership with arts institutions who will be presenting and discussing their experiences on knowledge sharing and partnerships with Wikimedia in that regard. As structured organisations with a deep sense of hierarchy and copyright protection of their pieces and collections,  arts organisations tend to present themselves as essentially resisting these notions, although avid readers of Museum 2.0, Museum 3.0, and French speaking readers of Mixeum are fully aware that the picture of museums today on these issues is a fragmented one. 

Every day millions of Britons engage with the arts and cultural sector through digital media.1 This engagement comes in many forms and is in a constant state of evolution, driven by technological change. Five years ago, mobile phones were for texts and calls and Facebook barely existed. Today, a quarter of us have a smartphone through which we can listen to a song, or watch a trailer for an artistic performance.2 Over 40,000 people track the Royal Opera House, and over 58,000 the British Museum, through Facebook; while FACT in Liverpool has 7,000 Twitter followers.However, this research represents the first time that this online engagement with arts and culture in England has been captured and quantified

"Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010, Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK PhoenixST Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February, 2010, 9:30 - 17:30"

"Welcome to UKOLN's Cultural Heritage blog. The blog aims to provide a key communication channel for UKOLN's engagement with the cultural heritage sector, for disseminating information on UKOLN's activities in this area and for encouraging discussion and debate on innovation and best practices."

When Jonathan Ross is helping with the kids' homework, when Jamie Oliver bakes, when any of my 75 closest pals have coffee, I know about it - instantly. Why? Because, like at least 100,000 Brits, I Twitter. I Twitter from bed before I get up; when I arrive at work; when something happens; when nothing happens. Once I chain-smoked, now I chain-Twitter.

BP's slick green logo doesn't suit a company that wants to invest in tar sands, the dirtiest oil there currently is.

To coincide with the opening of the Dickens and London exhibition, the Museum of London has launched a new iPhone and iPad app which takes users on a journey through the darker side of Charles Dickens' London.

Following on from the success of award-winning app Streetmuseum™, the Museum of London has joined forces with AETN UK's flagship channel HISTORY™ to develop a new app which gives users the opportunity to see Roman London as it was 2,000 years ago