Category Archives: museums

Everyone wins: crowdsourcing games and museums

A presentation called ‘Everyone wins: crowdsourcing games and museums’ for MuseumNext in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 26, 27th. The link to my slides was retweeted so much the slides made it onto the front page of slideshare, which was especially … Continue reading

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Museum Games and UGC: Improving Collections Through Play

A presentation on ‘Museum Games and UGC: Improving Collections Through Play’ for ‘UGC4GLAM – Joint Workshop on User-Generated Content for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums‘, Vienna, Austria, May 16-17, 2011. Museum Games and UGC: Improving Collections Through Play View more … Continue reading

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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: Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites

The article ‘Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites’ was published in Issue 3 of Museum Identity magazine and is also available online at Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites. Site abstract: “Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer … Continue reading

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Museum API wiki

I’ve been maintaining a publicly-editable wiki, museum-api.pbwiki.com since early 2009.  The impetus was the development of an API for a subset of the Science Museum’s collections.  I introduced it with a post on Open Objects, Get thee to a wiki … Continue reading

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Presentation: “Happy developers + happy museums = happy punters”

This was a ‘lightning talk’ at JISC’s dev8D ‘developer happiness’ days held in London in February 2009. The slides are downloadable and I’ve put a transcript on my blog.

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Report: The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

I reported on The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference for Issue 56 of Ariadne.  Mashed Museum was held at the University of Leicester on July 18, 2008 (and is the first museum hack day … Continue reading

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Presentation: “Web 2.0 in the Real World”

This was a case study for an MLA London Workshop on ‘Web 2.0 and Social Networking for Museums, Libraries and Archives’, held in London on July 14, 2008.

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Panel paper: The role of the IT professional in a heritage institution

I was a guest speaker on a panel for a course in ‘Culture and Heritage Informatics’ at Kingston University, London, April 28, 2008. I have summarised some of the discussion on the Museum of London blog and on my personal … Continue reading

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Presentation: MultiMimsy and the possibilities for OAI

Presentation: MultiMimsy database extractions and the possibilities for OAI-based collections repositories at the Museum of London UK MultiMimsy Users Group. Museum in Docklands, London, April 18, 2008.

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