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.
Interview: 'Games at the museum'
I was interviewed for the Microtask crowdsourcing blog. Their abstract:
Culture heritage technologist Mia Ridge is a champion of crowdsourced museum gaming. Mia has worked as a developer for several world-class museums and is now writing her PhD on crowdsourcing digital heritage. She describes games as the “participation engine” of crowdsourcing.
Taking time out from her busy speaking schedule, Mia told us how and why museums should be raising their game…
'Games at the museum: Mia Ridge interview'.
Interview for BBC Outriders
I was interviewed by Jamillah Knowles for BBC Outriders: Digital relaxation. I think the podcast should be downloadable from their archive.
From the episode blurb:
If you are interested in history anywhere, then you might be interested in LODLAM too. LODLAM is Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums. Imagine the world of history all linked up? Amazing!
I spoke to Mia Ridge who is currently a Phd student in Digital Humanities in the Department of History at the Open University and she explained more about LODLAM, what it can do and how we might be able to help us understand and work with global archives and more.
Research, design and code: metadata crowdsourcing games for museums
For more information, see the page about my MSc Dissertation: crowdsourcing games for museums. The beta games I made are hosted at Museum Metadata Games (and have recently been updated to include some of the million images the British Library have released on Flickr Commons). The initial data was loaded from APIs from the Science Museum and Powerhouse Museum.