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Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

My slides for ‘Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections’ for Museums and the Web, 2011 in Philadelphia, USA. They cover the material in my MW2011 paper, Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve … Continue reading

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Paper: Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

My paper for Museums and the Web 2011, Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections, is online and is also available in the printed proceedings. Abstract: Crowdsourcing the creation, correction or enhancement of data about objects … Continue reading

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‘Museums meet the 21st century’ – OpenTech 2010 talk

I gave a talk at OpenTech 2010 on ‘Museums meet the 21st century‘ – I’ve blogged my slides and notes. Museums meet the 21st century View more presentations from Mia .

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Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang

A paper for Museums and the Web conference in Denver, April 2010. Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang Abstract ‘Cosmic collections’ was a Web site mashup competition held by the Science Museum in late 2009 to encourage members of the … Continue reading

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Social Media in the ABM (MLA) Sector: Opportunities and Challenges

In December 2009 I was invited to Oslo to give a lecture on social media and museums, libraries and archives to the The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling) . The Opportunities and Challenges slides are online and below. … Continue reading

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Chaired: UK Museums on the Web conference, ‘Sensory’ session

I curated a session relating to the UKMW09 themes of ‘The everyday web: situated, sensory, social’. I was particularly interested in investigating what we could learn from games and how that could be translated to interactions with museums. The conference … Continue reading

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Paper: Continued Communication: maximising your communications in a Web 2.0 world

I spoke on ‘Continued Communication: maximising your communications in a Web 2.0 world’ at the Online Information 2009 conference in London, December 1, 2009, presenting some of the research of the ‘Continued Communication’ research group with Elizabeth Lomas and Benjamin … Continue reading

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Paper: Sharing authorship and authority: user generated content and the cultural heritage sector

Paper: Sharing authorship and authority: user generated content and the cultural heritage sector Web Adept: UK Museums and the Web 2007, Leicester, June 22, 2007.

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Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped pipes makers’ mark website

Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped makers’ mark website SCPR Annual Conference, September 16, 2006 London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House The paper discusses the process from initial specification through requirements gathering, database design, … Continue reading

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