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Category Archives: museums
Paper: Where next for open cultural data in museums?
My latest article for Museum Identity magazine, Where next for open cultural data in museums?, is now live online and in the current print issue of Museum-iD 13. Site abstract: “Museums have increasingly been joining the global movement for open … Continue reading
Keynote: ‘The gift that gives twice: crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritage’
I was invited to give a keynote at ‘The Shape of Things: New and emerging technology-enabled models of participation through VGC‘ at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. This was the first event for the AHRC-funded iSay: Visitor-Generated Content … Continue reading
Posted in conference, crowdsourcing, museums, presentation
Tagged Leicester, United Kingdom
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Panel: ASPIRE Digital Roundtable: “Horizon Scanning: Living in the Digital World”
I was invited to be a panellist for Oxford ASPIRE’s first knowledge sharing event on 13th November 2012, Living in the Digital World: Horizon Scanning for Museums (PDF). Oxford ASPIRE is a consortium of Oxford University Museums (the Ashmolean, Pitt … Continue reading
Guest post: Center for the Future of Museums blog
I co-wrote a post with Suse Cairns in reply to a post from Jasper Visser on Opportunities and Challenges with Reproductions for the American Alliance of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums blog. As the introduction to A Reply … Continue reading
Keynote: Global communities and open cultural data: movements towards linked open data in libraries, archives and museums
I was invited to Taipei, Taiwan for the ‘eCulture & Open Cultural Data Forum’ by TELDAP (Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Programs), MCN Taiwan and Culturemondo Asia Pacific. Many thanks to my hosts and organisers for their hospitality, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Taipei, Taiwan
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Interview in Museum Identity magazine on open linked data and digital audiences
I was interviewed for Museum ID magazine as part of a series of interviews with the ‘alternative museum establishment’. The online version is accessible at Interview: Mia Ridge – open linked data and digital audiences.
Review: QRator at the Grant Museum of Zoology
I was invited to review the QRator project at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology for the Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2012: QRator at the Grant Museum of Zoology.
Scholar-in-residence, Cooper-Hewitt
I was invited to spend a week in New York as scholar-in-residence at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a museum of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to design. At the end of the week I presented my results to staff and … Continue reading
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Tagged New York, United States of America
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Talk: ‘Inspiring connections with collections’
I was invited to Auckland Museum to give a lecture on ‘Inspiring connections with collections’. Discussions with staff and the process of preparing for the talks inspired two blog posts: ‘Designing for participatory projects: emergent best practice, getting discussion started‘ … Continue reading
Talk: ‘What’s the point of a museum website?’
In April I was invited to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, in Wellington, New Zealand, to talk about the role of museum websites in the relationships between museums and their audiences. Preparing for the talk, the discussion … Continue reading