Archive for the ‘presentation’ Category
Current issues in Digital Humanities
On October I was on a panel on the Digital Humanities at the Open University – my talk notes are blogged at Notes on current issues in Digital Humanities.
I co-authored paper titled ‘Colloquium: Digital Technologies: Help or Hindrance for the Humanities?’ (with Elton Barker, Chris Bissell, Lorna Hardwick, Allan Jones and John Wolffe), published in the ‘Digital Futures Special Issue Arts and Humanities in HE’ edition of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.
My Europeana Tech 2011 keynote
I was one of two keynotes at Europeana Tech in Vienna in October 2011. I’ve posted my talk notes at My Europeana Tech keynote: Open for engagement: GLAM audiences and digital participation. There’s a video of the talk on YouTube (but I haven’t watched it so have no idea if it works as a video).
Some of my other notes from the conference are at Notes from EuropeanaTech 2011.
Crowdsourcing at ‘Collaborating to Compete’
On 16 September 2011 I chaired a session (including a brief overview of my research, at the request of the organisers) at the Museums Galleries Scotland Conference 2011 Collaborating to Compete in Edinburgh. My presentation notes and some thoughts on the conference are at ‘Entrepreneurship and Social Media’ and ‘Collaborating to Compete’ and Conference notes: Museums and Galleries Scotland’s ‘Collaborate to Compete’.
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.
Changing contexts: museums, audiences and technology
A presentation for the International Training Programme run by the British Museum for museum professionals from around the world. This is based on a presentation I prepared for OpenCulture 2011, but includes additional material on mobile phones/devices including the ‘Hidden Histories’ pilot.
The future of museums and learning to love change
A presentation on ‘The future of museums and learning to live with love change’ for OpenCulture 2011 in Birmingham, UK, on June 8, 2011.
Owen Stephens live-blogged my talk, his notes are at
Open Culture 2011 – Looking to the Future.
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 nice as I’d had a lot of fun making the presentation interesting enough to combat the post-lunch slot and to help non-tech/game people stay engaged for the whole talk.
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 Crowdsourcing Games: Improving Collections Through Play (and some thoughts on re-inventing museums)
A presentation for the Inspiration Seminar on Digital Communications and Heritage (Inspirationsseminarium Digital kommunikation & kulturarv, #kulturwebb) at the Nordic Museum, organised by the Nordic Museum’s New Media department in collaboration with Mabb and IdeK lab.
I’ve saved my slides and speaker notes as a PDF (7mb): Museum Crowdsourcing Games: Improving Collections Through Play (and some thoughts on the future of museums) and the video is at http://bambuser.com/channel/nordiskamuseet/broadcast/1646762 (though I’m not sure how long it’ll be there).
You can also find related posts on my blog, Open Objects, at http://openobjects.blogspot.com/search/label/crowdsourcing and http://openobjects.blogspot.com/search/label/games.
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 Museum Collections.