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One of the most common questions we get is about the use of computers in museum settings.  Are they necessary?  Should museums be putting them in to attract broader audiences?  Do visitors expect them?  Or do visitors come to museums for other reasons?

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.

"Galaxy Zoo: Hubble" verwendet wunderschöne Bilder von hunderttausenden von Galaxien, die aus dem NASA-Archiv des Weltraumteleskops Hubble stammen. Um zu verstehen, wie diese Galaxien - und unsere Heimatgalaxie - entstanden sind, benötigen wir Ihre Hilfe bei der Klassifikation der Formen der Galaxien - eine Aufgabe, der das menschliche Gehirn besser gewachsen ist als selbst der fortschrittlichste moderne Computer. Wenn Sie sich beeilen, könnte es sogar sein, dass Sie der erste Mensch sind, der das Bild einer der Galaxien, die Ihnen zur Klassifizierung gezeigt werden, mit eigenen Augen sieht!

"Companies often approach Social Computing as a list of technologies to be deployed as needed - a blog here, a community there - to achieve a marketing goal. But a more coherent approach is to start with your target audience and determine what kind of relationship you want to build with them, based on what they are ready for. You can use the tool on this page to get started."

Companies often approach Social Computing as a list of technologies to be deployed as needed - a blog here, a community there - to achieve a marketing goal. But a more coherent approach is to start with your target audience and determine what kind of relationship you want to build with them, based on what they are ready for. You can use the tool on this page to get started.

Social Tagging-Projekt aus D.: Was machen wir, um diese Reproduktionen wiederzufinden, und zwar möglichst nach den unterschiedlichsten Kritereien geordnet? Manchmal wollen wir Bilder finden, die einen spezifischen Inhalt oder eine spezifische Form haben. Da die Möglichkeiten, über den Computer direkt auf die Reproduktion zuzugreifen, noch sehr beschränkt sind, vergeben wir Schlagworte, sogenannte Metadaten. Das ist ein sehr zeitraubendes Geschäft und kann am besten von einer großen Anzahl von Mitarbeiter/innen übernommen werden. Um diesen Beitrag bitten wir Sie mit diesem Spiel. ... Der zugrundeliegende Bilderbestand wird der Datenbank Artemis entnommen, die am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU München in Zusammenarbeit mit der IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften der Universität aufgebaut wurde und die inzwischen mehr als 25.000 Bilder enthält. Diese Version von ARTigo basiert auf einem führend von Dr. Gerhard Schön von der IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften entwickelten Spiel. ... Die Idee für dieses Projekt stammt von Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle nach einem Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. François Bry über „Games with a Purpose".

"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."

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

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.

This report describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. adults that participated in the arts (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances) via electronic media (e.g., TV, radio, computers and portable media devices) in 2008, based on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Separately, the report examines broad categories of arts participation via Internet. The report also investigates factors contributing to the likelihood of some Americans experiencing art through media. Finally, the report considers the relationship between media-based arts activities and other types of arts participation, such as live attendance and personal arts creation. June 2010. 146 pp.

Super, das ist ja ein toller und hilfreicher Report, danke fürs Aufspüren. ;-)

"I thought you might want to know about and possibly contribute to this" (Museum Computer Group)EC consultation on digitisation and 'boosting cultural heritage online'. It's looking at "how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibilityand preservation of cultural works across Europe. Contributions to thisconsultation will feed into the recommendations the Group will make beforethe end of the year" and they say, "the Group will come forward with a setof recommendations for the digitisation, online accessibility andpreservation of Europe's cultural heritage in the digital age, looking inparticular at the issue of public-private partnerships for digitisation inEurope".

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.

In the conference's closing plenary, leading museum thinkers teamed up to participate in formal, Oxford-style debates about thought-provoking questions faced by today's museum professionals. This year's debate topics were: Museums that are not run as businesses will ultimately fail. Engagement with online-only visitors is as important as engagement with those on site.

Hier lagern Computer, Fernsehkameras, Projektoren. Hightech von gestern - nicht selten das Beste und Teuerste, was es zu kaufen gab. Der Kurator Rolf Wolfensberger und der Museumstechniker Max Leiser vom Berner Museum für Kommunikation gewähren im Gespräch mit Dominik Landwehr einen Blick hinter die Kulissen eines technischen Museums.

"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.

"What can all of this tell us? Museums are creating YouTube videos but only a small number of users watch them and an even smaller number interact with them. YouTube's front page shows us their most popular videos. Users are catching up on TV programmes, getting their celebrity fixes and watching those random funnies."

MCN supports museum information professionals and the greater community by providing opportunities to explore and disseminate new technologies and best practices in the field. With an annual conference, special interest groups, listserv, and project registry, MCN is here to help you seek out and share knowledge about technology trends and issues you face every day.