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Museums and Civic Discourse

Last Saturday, I was fortunate to attend the “Museums and Civic Discourse” symposium at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley. The room was packed with some West Coast and national leaders in the field–really some amazing women there (and a few men, too). The symposium sought to imagine what civic discourse in museums […]

Web 2.0 and Museums, from Museums and the Web

Just catching up on my Museums & the Web notes. . . Please forgive the bullets. My comments are in italics.
This session was a study in vast contrasts. I completely understand each institution’s approach to Web 2.0 technologies, but I must say the Smithsonian approach, while it may produce quality content, does […]

Designing a web site for young people, at Museums and the Web

Rough notes on this one. . .
“Designing a web site for young people: the challenges of appealing to a diverse and fickle audience”Rose Cardiff, Tate Online - full paper online here
User-generated content
Potential issues:

child protection law for children under age 16 in UK
IPR and copyright
cost and effort of moderating site if it’s a success
server requirements for […]

Brewster Kahle, keynote, Museums & the Web conference

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive opened Museums and the Web 2007 with an inspiring keynote address. He argued that providing universal access to all published human knowledge is within our grasp. Yes, you read that correctly: public access to all published texts, audio, video, etc. is possible and practical with our current […]

Pseudo-liveblogging Museums and the Web

The wireless access in the Grand Ballroom here at Museums and the Web leaves something to be desired, so I’m not liveblogging so much as delayed blogging.
All right. . .bring on the posts!