Archives & Museum Informatics: International Cultural Herita David Arnold, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Michael Danks, United Kingdom Richard Griffiths, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria, University of Brighton, United Kingdom This paper describes the processes and outcomes from the production of an interactive exhibition devised for the Brighton Fishing Museum by post-graduate students, offering the opportunity to understand not only the museum environment and collection but also its purpose in the community as a place of and for learning. The final outcome is a sophisticated cocktail of user generated multimedia content in symbiotic relationship with the pre-existing live exhibition of artefacts housed in the museum. The conclusions drawn highlight the importance and value of activity- and game-based learning. Session: Reaching Young People [Audiences] Keywords: Interactive television, storytelling, cultural heritage, new learning, multimedia, user generated conten
fits - Project Hosting on Google Code What is it? The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors. FITS was created by the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems for use in its Digital Repository Service (DRS). Source code is now stored in Github: The current tools used are: The source code for each of the above tools is available on their websites. FITS also supplies two original tools: FileInfo and XmlMetadata. In addition, FITS includes the following open source libraries: The source code for each of the above libraries is available on their websites. To get started see the FITS User Guide. Changes: Note that starting with release 0.3.0 Java 1.6 is required. Version 0.6.2 (3/18/13) -Initial merge and commit from openfits -Updated Exiftool to 9.06 -Improved video support with Exiftool Version 0.2.6
ckan/eutransparency - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki Introduction This is an inventory of EU-relevant datasets that is being compiled by EU Transparency, the NGO that made farmsubsidy.org and the Open Knowledge Foundation. It includes data that is already available, as well as data that we know exists but is not published - from budget data and environmental information to postcodes and place names. How To Participate If you would like to get involved, either by taking part in the first European Open Data Summit in Brussels, 5-7 May 2009 or otherwise, please add your details to the participate page. How To Contribute Material If you know of a dataset that you think should be added, you can either: Registering Material On CKAN To register material on CKAN: Go to register page: Enter a short name, which will be the identifier for the package. Tags Following is a list of tags used in CKAN: Types of data we are looking for Scope Places to look If you know of existing places to look for EU data, please add a link below.
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2008: Wor Sebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Angelina Russo, Swinburne University, Australia Jerry Watkins, Queensland University of Technology, Australia This workshop is now full. This half-day workshop will explore the use of social media (blogs, wikis, digital stories etc.) to support museum communication. The workshop will address: The range of web-based social media available to museums. The issues that will arise in planning for such applications. Structure The workshop will be structured around four key topics: Changing communication models in the museum.Connecting youth audiences to museum content.Navigating internal resistance to implementing social media Strategies for engaging communities in the sharing of knowledge. Workshop participants will work in small groups to explore each of the topics and work towards an understanding of how social media can be used effectively in museums. Through small group activities, participants will address these questions: Why social media?
Research Briefs | Digital preservation: The uncertain future of Digital objects are becoming a critical component of scholarly research, but stakeholders show an alarming lack of concern about preserving digital data accurately and sustainably: those charged with archiving information have not yet developed strategies that will enable future generations to build their knowledge on what has gone before. How will research findings be communicated in the future, and how true to the original look, feel and behaviour of these publications will digital archives need to be? Scenario planning can address the challenge of developing strategies in the face of these uncertainties to help librarians and archivists maintain the time-honoured tradition of preserving the past to inform the future. This report is part of the RAND Corporation research brief series. RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.
52008DC0804 - FI Komission tiedonanto Euroopan parlamentille, neuvostolle, Euroopan talous- ja sosiaalikomitealle ja alueiden komitealle - ”Kohti esteetöntä tietoyhteiskuntaa” /* KOM/2008/0804 lopull. */ [pic] | EUROOPAN YHTEISÖJEN KOMISSIO | Bryssel 1.12.2008 KOM(2008) 804 lopullinen ”Kohti esteetöntä tietoyhteiskuntaa” Yhteiskuntamme on muuttumassa yhä enemmän tietoyhteiskunnaksi ja olemme kuin huomaamattamme tulossa yhä riippuvaisemmiksi teknologiapohjaisista tuotteista ja palveluista jokapäiväisessä elämässämme. Tietoyhteiskunnan esteettömyys on saanut viime vuosina runsaasti poliittista näkyvyyttä ja huomiota osakseen. Komission mielestä nyt on pikaisesti luotava johdonmukaisempi, yhteinen ja tehokas lähestymistapa sähköisten palvelujen ja erityisesti verkkosivujen esteettömyyteen , jotta voitaisiin jouduttaa tietoyhteiskunnan avautumista kaikille. Yhteinen ja johdonmukainen lähestymistapa tietoyhteiskunnan esteettömyyteen edellyttää seuraavaa: 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 6.
Archives & Museum Informatics: International Cultural Herita Samuel Mann, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand Khyla Russell, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand The SimPā project aims to convey and strengthen research aspects in regard to Māori culture, tikaka and knowledge using innovative and cutting edge technology. In short, the project aims to provide a means of telling whānau, hapu and Iwi Māori stories in 3D game format. This paper reviews the first stage of the project. The paper discusses learnings from the first stage of the project the creation of the “SimPā toolkit” to enable participatory development (he kohinga o nga mea rauemi). Session: Audience as Author [Audiences] Keywords: Maori, interactive, partipatory, gameplay, landscape, story
AIDA: A JISC project » Toolkit The AIDA self Assessment Toolkit is a toolkit to enable your institution to perform self-assessment of your capacity, state of readiness, and overall capability for digital asset management. New! Mark II version of the Toolkit released May 2009 Previous version (July 2008) This is not intended to function as an audit. It’s about measurement, not improvement; you don’t need to supply ‘evidence’ that you are doing anything. Although the toolkit will be weighted and scored, there’s no such thing as a ‘bad score’. The toolkit is structured as a set of simple elements, each one describing an aspect of digital asset management. The process is spread over three discrete areas. These Five Stages (Acknowledge, Act, Consolidate, Institutionalise and Externalise). and the Three Legs are based on the Cornell University maturity model, originally designed to assess an Institution’s readiness for digital preservation. Along with the typical characteristics, we provide indicators of practice.
Archives & Museum Informatics: International Cultural Herita Harlan Wallach, Northwestern University, USA This paper describes the Imag(n)ing Shuilu’an project, its goals and its results. The goals of this project were multifold, and were designed to produce both a lasting archive of the Shuilu’an temple, train the Xi’an Center for Conservation in imaging techniques, and explore the methods of 3-D capture and application. This project also worked to develop a prototype of a unified annotation and presentation toolset to explore networked based presentation models of the combined deliverable components, and to explore and evaluate the scholarly use and value of the 2-D and 3-D datasets. The acquisition phase began in October 2005 and ended in May 2007 with a culminating conference in Xian, China. It was a collaborative project between Northwestern University and the Xian center for Conservation and Restoration, and was funded by the Andrew W. Session: Conservation [Documentation]
AIDA: A JISC project Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2008: Wor Rose Cardiff, Tate, United Kingdom Carolyn Royston, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom This half-day workshop will focus on how to develop effective online learning resources. It is aimed at educators and content producers and will provide practical guidance on how to develop e-Learning resources using museum collections. The workshop will cover: Methods on how to plan for your resourceHow to develop an online learning frameworkGuidelines for writing online contentSuggestions for user testing The emphasis of the workshop will be on how to achieve the learning objectives for your online resource, and how technology can be used effectively to achieve those aims. The workshop will use the methodology developed in the National Museums Online Learning Project (NMOLP), a partnership project involving 9 UK national museums and galleries. In this workshop, we will focus on the resources created for pupils and teachers. Workshop: Learning in e-Learning [Morning]
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2 When's the next Museums and the Web? Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, senior speakers with extensive experience in Web development review and analyze the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Together, we are transforming The MW Program MW2009 featured plenary sessions, parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, commercial exhibits, mini-workshops, professional forums, a usability lab, a design 'Crit Room,' and the Best of the Web awards. See the Program On-line. Prior to the conference, there were full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops and a day of pre-conference tours. Social events included receptions each evening, a Birds-of-a-Feather Breakfast, and plenty of refreshment breaks to provide hours of discovery and debate among hundreds of colleagues from around the world.