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Paper: Continued Communication: maximising your communications in a Web 2.0 world

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 … 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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Presentation: Bubbles and Easter eggs – Museum Pecha Kucha

Shelley Mannion organised the first museum pecha kucha night, held at the British Museum, London, on June 18, 2009. I blogged my writeup of the talks and these are my London museum pecha kucha slides. The evening was a good … 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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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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Class: Computer assisted interpretation; integration of finds and site sequence

I taught one class on ‘Computer assisted interpretation; integration of finds and site sequence’ in the Birkbeck MA Archaeology Module “Archaeological Post-Excavation and Publication”, based on material originally written by Rich May.

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Paper: Sharing authorship and authority: user generated content and the cultural heritage sector

Paper: Sharing authorship and authority: user generated content and the cultural heritage sector Web Adept: UK Museums and the Web 2007, Leicester, June 22, 2007.

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Classes: Introduction to Digital Humanities

‘Introduction to Digital Humanities’ was a new postgraduate course run by Dr Suzanne Paylor at Birkbeck College that examined the impact of technology on humanities research practice. It combined aspects of media studies, humanities computing and literary studies to foster … Continue reading

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