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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.

This article provides an overview for anyone producing content about these two options. We argue that most content producers should focus on the mobile web, especially if they want to make their content more widely accessible. Mobile apps may be appropriate if looking for new sources of revenue, or deep user engagement, but many other factors make the mobile web the more sensible platform for most content producers.

"This article provides an overview for anyone producing content about thesetwo options. We argue that most content producers should focus on the mobileweb, especially if they want to make their content more widely accessible.Mobile apps may be appropriate if looking for new sources of revenue, ordeep user engagement, but many other factors make the mobile web the moresensible platform for most content producers. I'll provide a detailed comparison of both mobile web and apps for thedissemination of content focusing on the following: making contentaccessible, dealing with a multitude of devices and platforms, cost ofproduction, control over what content can be published, leveraging socialnetworks and search engines, features (such as ability to access users'location), user engagement, and monetization." (Author)

"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".

Sparked by previous discussions, I wonder if anyone is aware of any successful projects/tools that allow users to geotag resources on the web (or to contribute corrections/enhancements to things already tagged)

7scenes gives you all the tools for your mobile city experiences, which we call scenes. Scenes let you explore places with your mobile, interact with other players and upload media on-the-go

Ich verwende aber nur die OpenStreetmap Karten. Die Software ist wirklich gut und jedem zu empfehlen, der viel mit GPS und Geotagging arbeitet.

This is a site to allow you to geotag other people's photos on Flickr by suggesting a location to the photo's owner. Likewise, someone else can offer you suggestions of where your un-geotagged photos were taken.

A phone in the hand tracks birds in the bush The technology is at last here to to launch Project Cassowary.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investigations on Digital Storytelling: The Development of a Reference Model [Taschenbuch]

Das klingt ja sehr spannend! Danke für den Hinweis...

Die Bewerbung von Kunst und Kultur ist gar nicht so einfach. TV-Spots oder auch Inserate kosten in der Regel sehr viel Geld, Plakate nimmt kaum noch jemand wahr und im Social Web geht man mit seinen Hinweisen unter, weil mittlerweile fast jede Kultureinrichtung diese Kanäle nutzt.

hart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer-a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour guide for the Museum's world-famous halls. Providing turn-by-turn directions, AMNH Explorer takes visitors from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a variety of Museum-designed tours or create your own from a list of popular exhibits, specimens, or artifacts.

Jüngst entschied sich der Egmont-Verlag, die Website für das Magazin FHM ganz aufzugeben und durch eine Seite bei Facebook zu ersetzen.

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.