All,
Sorry that I didn’t learn about this earlier, but today I’ve glanced
once or twice at a fascinating project: Museum in a Day. You can learn
more about it at http://museuminaday.com.
Basically, two IT professionals who work in the cultural heritage sector
in the UK have given themselves one day to build a museum website for a
fictional museum — except now the museum is sort of real, in a virtual
way. Using Omeka and WordPress, they took one day, today, November 2, to
build a website for “The Future Museum,” an online museum of fictional
technologies such as teleporters and hoverboards, “the technologies and
ideas that humankind thought would change the world . . . and didn’t.”
The point, they say, was to prove that “making (museum) websites should
be easy.”
You can see the “dev” (i.e., draft) version of what they built today at
http://dev.thefuturemuseum.com, and you can read about what they did
today on an hour-by-hour basis on the Twitter feed at
http://twitter.com/museuminaday, and you can take a look at their
planning document on their public Google Docs spreadsheet at
http://bit.ly/museuminadaygoogledoc.
Neato!
Amanda
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Amanda L. French, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scholar, Digital Curriculum Specialist
Archives and Public History
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Subject: MW2010 CFP: Deadline Wed. Sept 30, 2009
MW2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2009
Museums and the Web 2010
the international conference for culture and heritage on-line
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/
Don’t miss this chance to present your best work at the premiere
international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and
science on-line: Museums and the Web. Taking an international
perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of
networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community
has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and
influencing the role museums play on the Web.
PROPOSALS ARE DUE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009.
Submit your proposal using our on-line form at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/mw2010.proposalForm.html
We’re open to proposals on on any topic related to museums and their
communities creating, facilitating, or delivering culture, science or
heritage on-line. Proposals for MW are peer-reviewed by an
International Program Committee.
Full details about MW2010 can be found on the conference web site at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/
We hope to see you in Denver,
jennifer and David
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