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Upcoming talks
A vaguely updated list of upcoming talks around the world…
In March 2012 I’ll be in Australia for various things – more details to follow…
I’ll be in Canberra in late March for Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting to give a paper called ‘Why look a gift horse in the mouth? Exploring resistance to crowdsourced resources among historians’.
You can also follow me on twitter (@mia_out) for updates.
Most recent past papers
I was in Atlanta in November for MCN2011 (my ‘Hacking and mash-ups for beginners’ workshop is a highlight, woo!) and a panel discussion on ‘What’s the Point of a Museum Website?‘.
Update: I also debated the question “There are too many museums” in the ‘Great Debate‘ for MCN’s closing plenary.
Then it was back to London where I chaired a session at the MCG ‘Museums on the Web’ UKMW11 conference.
October 2011
I was one of two keynotes at Europeana Tech in Vienna, with a paper titled ‘Open for engagement: GLAM audiences and digital participation’. The next day I was back in London for LODLAM-London October 6 (with the Open Knowledge Foundation).
A few days later I was on a panel on the Digital Humanities at the Open University – my talk notes are at Notes on current issues in Digital Humanities.
I was also interviewed for the Microtask crowdsourcing blog, ‘Games at the museum: Mia Ridge interview‘.
Previous papers are generally listed at miaridge.com or on my blog, Open Objects.
New site!
In a moment of constructive procrastination, I’ve migrated my site over from custom PHP pages to WordPress. Lots of bits still to tidy up and move over, but it’s been a smooth process generally. It’s even been fun, and I think I can see potential for using blogging software as a kind of ‘living CV’ – I haven’t really updated my CV since 2005, but the occasional post about papers or project milestones should give the casual visitor an idea of my current interests and work.
Career highlight
On April 17, 2010, I was appointed Director of Science for the Spinny Bar Historical Society.
Image courtesy brownwindsor.