Analysis Methodology for Museum Data
In a previous post, I’ve shared some background about the data analysis phase of our Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant, and posted some of the questions our museum participants wanted …
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Museum Data Exchange: Tools for Sharing
As all good things in life, this took a little longer to see the light of day than I had thought it would, which means I am doubly delighted to …
Read MoreMuseum Data Exchange: Asking the right questions
The logistical details of publishing the tools we have produced as part of the Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant continue to unfold in a slower fashion than I had hoped, …
Read MoreUK National Museums get creative
Creative Spaces, a UK project formerly known as the National Museums Online Learning Project, just launched as a Beta, and is being hotly debated among museum professionals in a number …
Read MoreLibraries / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Museums / OCLC Research Library Partnership / Visual Resources
“Things don’t really get moving until a page is turned.”
I’ve slipped the draft of my survey of user studies into a drawer, walked away from my desk, and crossed the Bay to CODEX, a veritable orgy of international arts …
Read MoreThe People and the Commons
The Flickr Commons is a remarkable project in many ways, and we’ve certainly followed its birth and progress closely on hangingtogether (see here, here, here, here and here.) Just in …
Read MoreWhat’s up with museum data exchange?
I’ve recently received an e-mail from a researcher in Lugano, Switzerland who is asking about an update on our Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant. This request made me realize that …
Read MoreA web-based Collections Management System
I recently stumbled upon an announcement for NZMuseums, a website run by National Services Te Paerangi, itself a department of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. NZMuseums brings …
Read MoreRLG Partners Among Early Grid Services Adopters
At the prompting of my colleague Constance Malpas, I pulled the list of current users of OCLC Grid Services [PDF] to see how many RLG Partner institutions have already signed …
Read MoreThe future of museums – the massively multiplayer forecast
I’ve just received an announcement from AAM about a Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game they’ll use to shape our thinking about the museum of the future. (If you’re a member of …
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