The Future of Museums
I usually make plans to read a report or two on Fridays, and while it doesn’t always work out that way, this Friday I managed to delve into “Museums & …
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The 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 MoreInternational professional LAM organizations bond
Nancy Gwinn recently (well, as recently as before the holidays!) alerted me to an interesting development concerning library, archive and museum collaboration. Apparently, on 21st of November 2008 IFLA President …
Read MoreLIFE photography reborn on Google
Google is digitizing 10 Million photographs from the LIFE photo archive. 2 Million are already available, and the complete set will be accessible from Google Image Search as well as …
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 MoreLC-Flickr: updating the catalog
In the context of John MacColl’s guest blog on Karen Calhoun’s Metalogue, I was reminded of the stats from the LC-Flickr project pertaining to changes LC made in their own …
Read MoreBeyond the Silos of the LAMs
The last couple of weeks have been busy and gratifying for the team working on library, archive and museum convergence issues. We’ve now published our final report capping a year-long …
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 …
Read MoreCollective Collections / Digital Preservation / Libraries Archives and Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice
It’s still: Think Global, Act Local
For the last 5 years, my friend Mary Elings from the Bancroft Library and I have made a trip to upstate New York in the summer to teach a one …
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