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Digital technology has the potential to influence every aspect of the cultural heritage environment. Archaeologists and cultural heritage scientists as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts have in the past collaborated to find solutions to optimise all aspects of capturing, managing, analysing and delivering cultural information, but many unsolved problems remain. The goal of VAST 2012 will be to build on the open dialogue between these different areas of expertise, and in particular allow ICT experts to have a better understanding of the critical requirements that cultural heritage professionals have for managing and delivering cultural information and for the ICT systems that support these activities.

Kristen defined six possible roles for museums on the Internet: 1) Filter - find and share relevant, accurate, trustworthy information 2) Curator - become a one stop shop for primary and secondary source material on specific topics 3) Node in a network - package information to live beyond your walls, monitor conversations around your content 4) Community builder - create your own network, be involved in online conversations 5) Lifesaver - provide portable information when and where people need it most 6) Tour Guide - connect your content to the real world

Potential museum visitors access information about the organization and decide if they want to visit by using web-based sites such as a museum's website, social media platforms, and peer-review sites over more "traditional" forms of advertising. In fact, when comparing how folks get their information about leisure activities, it's not even close: web and mobile platforms (including social media) are disproportionately influencing your museum's visitation and attendance.

The National Archives is the central advisory body on the care of records and archives, in all media, from creation to long-term preservation. These pages contain information for owners and custodians of records, archivists, special collection librarians, records managers and conservators.

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web British Museum & UCL Study Day - Jan 13th The World Wide Web is an essential part of the Museum's toolkit for publishing information, engaging visitors and communicating across the globe. However, museum web sites and information systems are still largely silos that make it difficult for us to realize the benefits of bringing data together. The growing momentum of the Semantic Web movement means a greater investment in the technology and tools needed to convert its potential into practical opportunities that museums can utilise. Und: "A museum object is more like an illustration, or witness of the past, than information in its own right. Cultural historical research means understanding 'possible pasts', the facts, events, material, social and psychological influences and motivations. It lives from understanding contexts, by pulling together bits and pieces of related facts from disparate resources, which can typically not be classified under subjects in an obvious way. It lives from taking into account all known facts." 

ein Wettbewerbs-Projekt des Frauenhofer Inst. / Thema: Medienprojekte zu Fragen zum Leben ineiner vernetzten Gesellschaft. Projekte sind u.a. Könnte int. sein für Ideen für audience+ Projekte sind z.B. - interaktives Plakat - semantische Karte (Werkzeug zur semantischen Kontextualisierung von Information) - timeline: Werkzeug zur zeitbasierten Visualisierung von Information - knowledge explorer: Ein kollaboratives, agentengestütztes Werkzeug zur Visualisierung von Information

PEW-Daten zur Internetnutzung in den USA: Grounding Digital Information Trends: "Mobile change our relationship to time and space" - location based and apps are the next big thing - the use of the internet from 2000-2010 (Broadband adoption (2000-2010), demographics of use, ect.)

Information 2.0 and Beyond: Where are we, where are we going? Plenary presenataion at MW2011

Get accurate information about your community using different search criteria that will help you to make strategic and error-free decisions. Take advantage of knowing exactly who shapes your community: where your followers are from, which language they speak, their activity on Twitter, etc.

The 2012 Museums & Mobile Survey finding are now available! Please jump right in and feel free to dig deep into the information we collected in this years' survey.

Seit 1998 wird mit der JIM-Studie im jährlichen Turnus eine Basisstudie zum Umgang von 12- bis 19-Jährigen mit Medien und Information durchgeführt. Neben einer aktuellen Standortbestimmung sollen die Daten zur Erarbeitung von Strategien und Ansatzpunkte für neue Konzepte in den Bereichen Bildung, Kultur und Arbeit dienen.

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.

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. 

The Andy Warhol Museum released the AR Mobile App 'Layar'. "The Layar turns your mobile device into an augmented-reality viewer. By adding The Andy Warhol Museum Layar, you'll be able to view locations pivotal in Andy Warhol's life and work overlayed on real-time images from your device's camera. View locations in Pittsburgh, PA and New York, NY and dive into related information and photos prepared by The Warhol's education curators." [the warhol]

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. "

meridian is the easiest way for locations to provide maps, directions, and information.

MuseumNext is Europe's big conference on social and digital media within the museum sector. We believe that technology is changing the expectations of museum audiences. They no longer want to have information just broadcasted at them, they want to create, to curate and to co-produce experiences.

Culture24 exists to promote and support the cultural sector online and to serve the needs of online audiences. We are a not-for-profit online publisher, working across the arts, heritage, education, and tourism sectors.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.

Das ist spannend, weil die Initiative des Instituts of Museum and Liebrary Services, US) sowohl Fallbeispiele integriert als auch ein Dokument publiziert hat zum Thema "21st century skills". Ausserdem wurde ein "self assesment-tool" entworfen. "The tool allows museums and libraries to determine where they fit on the continuum of 21st century skills operations and programming." Und die Seite des Instituts sammelt News und Veranstaltungen zum Thema.

Gut gefällt mir daran, dass hier eben nicht Web2.0-Ziele im Vordergrund stehen, sondern übergeordnete Ziele mit Hilfe dieser Tools erreicht werden können. Vom Ansatz und Grundverständnis her sehr hilfreich.