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"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".

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.

"Facebook groups v fan pages Facebook allows you to set up two kinds of pages for your museum, either a group or a fan page. While the difference between the two may not seems obvious until you join the website, a museum will be better served by a fan page."

"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."

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 Forumsksdiskussion Museum 3.0: http://museum30.ning.com/forum/topics/projects-linking-source I'm working on several projects linking the historic collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum with Indigenous source communities in Canada. Ironically,, I'm finding that the Indigenous groups are way more savvy about social media than this academic...So, we are posting images of objects on Flickr for people to think about before they come to Oxford to see them, have started a Facebook (invited) group for participants, and are thinking about other ways to use new media to create new relationships between museums and overseas source communities.

Gutes Beispiel wie Themen/Storytelling wichtiger werden als die Objekte Das Deutsche Museum war mal das wichtigste Technik-Museum der Welt. Die Schätze hat es noch. Doch seine Exponate präsentiert es so lieblos wie eine Behörde. Es fehlt am Geld - und am Willen.

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.

Ein Beispiel für neue Zielgruppen erreichen (s. Konferenzbeitrag Archimuse: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/abstracts/prg_335001837.html Our solution (in progress): - By creating many experiments across the widest range of existing social networking models we are making links with the local community who in turn show what the Gallery and the area is really about through their own images, ...- We always ensure we can back each experiment with adequate resources and talent to ensure a high quality result that does justice to the Gallery we represent.

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

Die Alternative zu museum plus-software. Eine Datenbank software von Künstlern entwickelt für Künstler und Kuratoren. ein schweizer produkt. unter anderem interessiert sich das Centre Pompidou in Paris dafür. soll viel intuitiver bedienbar sein, und

"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."

Two and a half years ago, Charlene Li and I introduced Social Technographics, a way to analyze your market's social technology behavior. Social Technographics was carefully constructed, not as a segmentation, but as a profile (that is, the groups overlap). That's because the actual data told me that people participate in multiple behaviors, and not everyone at a higher level on the ladder actually does everything in the lower rungs.

Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment.

The outcome of MUSTEL is the development and dissemination of recommendations for theoretically-motivated design principles for technology enhanced learning in museums. The success criteria for the outcome is the integration of Kaleidoscope research on TE

The Art Mobs: "A million artworks on Facebook. We will get there. Join us for inspiration, exclusive content, tutorials, and even the chance to win real original art for your own collection." " We started today!"

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.