miaridge

I hate writing these things, so here’s my last conference bio:

Mia Ridge is a cultural heritage technologist, and has worked internationally as an analyst, consultant and programmer at the Science Museum/NMSI, Museum of London, the Catalhoyuk Research Project, Museum Victoria, and in the commercial sector. Mia’s doctoral research at the Open University focuses on crowdsourcing the digitisation, aggregation and geo-location of historical materials.

Mia has published and presented widely on her key areas of interest including: best practices for metadata games for crowdsourcing, the participatory web and the cultural heritage sector, public participation and access to digital heritage, human-computer interaction theories, and user experience design. She tweets at http://twitter.com/mia_out and blogs at http://openobjects.blogspot.com/

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, I now live in London. I started as a Arts student, played around in multimedia, and eventually graduated as a software engineer. In 2011 I completed an MSc in Human-centred Systems at City University, London, for which I made museum metadata games. Various publications and presentations on my dissertation project are available at miaridge.com/category/games/.  I’m now working on a PhD in digital humanities with the department of History at the Open University.

In 2009, 2010 and 2011, I was a member of the Program Committee for the international Museums and the Web conference. In 2007 I was elected to the committee of the Museums Computer Group as Co-Webmaster (re-elected in 2010), and I help moderate antiquist, another a heritage computing community.  I was also a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Thinktank ‘UK Museums and the Semantic Web‘ in 2006/7 and am a member of JISC’s ‘Developer Focus’ group that works with their DevCSI project to improve the developer community in higher education.