On April 17, 2010, I was appointed Director of Science for the Spinny Bar Historical Society.
Image courtesy brownwindsor.
Cultural heritage technologies, user experience design and research, digital humanities
On April 17, 2010, I was appointed Director of Science for the Spinny Bar Historical Society.
Image courtesy brownwindsor.
An incomplete, retrospective list of work, talks and more in 2009…
February – I did a talk: "Happy developers + happy museums = happy punters" at JISC's Dev8D; I blogged a transcript.
At some point in early 2009 I started the Museum API wiki, which still exists at http://museum-api.pbworks.com.
In April I was inspired by the Museums and the Web international conference to setup 'the MW2009 challenge' – 'take something from all the conversation at Museums and the Web 2009 and do something with them. So – pick one task. To keep the momentum going, you should do it while it's still April 2009.'
In June I gave a talk Bubbles and Easter eggs – Museum Pecha Kucha at the British Museum in London. In July I repeated Bubbles, icebergs and Easter eggs at the Melbourne Museum Pecha Kucha.
September – I had an article published on the Museum-iD website, Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites. It was based on a paper I gave at the Museum-iD seminar on "Museum as Media Company: Social Media, Broadcasting & The Web” about ‘the role of the web at the Science Museum’.
November – the 'Cosmic Collections' crowdsourced web mashup competition I ran got some press on two web developer sites! Yahoo Developer Network: A new API and hack competition – this time not from a tech company but by a museum! Programmable Web: Science Museum Opens API and Challenges Developers to Mashup the Cosmos
December – I was invited to Oslo to give a lecture on Social Media in the ABM (MLA) Sector: Opportunities and Challenges and curated a session at the UK Museums on the Web conference on ‘Sensory’. I also spoke with Elizabeth Lomas and Benjamin Ellis on Continued Communication: maximising your communications in a Web 2.0 world at the Online Information 2009 conference. The paper I wrote with Elizabeth and Ben is online at Continued communication – maximising the business potential of communications through Web 2.0.
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.
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 was held at the V&A, London, on December 2, 2009.
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 Ellis. Our paper is available in the published proceedings and online at Continued communication – maximising the business potential of communications through Web 2.0.