Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the final set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness). Closing off my time at Picnic were visits to a couple of parallel [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2008
Picnic08 – Surprising Africa, data visualisation and a little augmented reality
September 30th, 2008 1 Comment
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OCLC’s Beyond the Silos of the LAMs report
September 30th, 2008 2 Comments
Just a few days after the Picnic08 discussions of ‘openness’ comes a very timely report from the OCLC on cross-sector collaboration between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) titled Beyond the Silos of the LAMs. Diane Zorich, Günter Waibel and Ricky Erway are the authors of the report. The report is the result of a series [...]
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Picnic08 – The Internet of Things
September 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is another set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness). Day Three was full of clashes and I was out at Westergasfabriek terribly early [...]
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Picnic08 – Open Musuem (more)
September 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here are some more notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes on the [...]
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Picnic08 – Open Museum part two
September 29th, 2008 1 Comment
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the next set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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Picnic08 – my presentation in the Open Museum sessions / Open Museum part one
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Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the second set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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Picnic08 – the first report from the conference with fake sheep and wifi donkeys
September 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’, or as my presentation was called “Sorry we’re open: the open, collaborative museum“. Set in the reclaimed grey zone of Westergasfabriek, Picnic08 was quite a remarkable thing to behold. On [...]
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Commons on Flickr: an interview with one of our Flickr friends, Bob Meade (part one)
September 18th, 2008 Comments Off
Bob Meade has been one of our most prolific ‘friends’ on Flickr. He has done an enormous amount of tagging, added a great deal of additional research to our images, and was the man behind the discovery of the Mosman Bay Falls. Paula Bray (the Museum’s Image Services Manager) and I conducted a long face [...]
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Teens, Games and Civics 2008 Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project / some implications for interactives in museums
September 17th, 2008 1 Comment
Another fascinating report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Teens, Games and Civics came out recently. Focussing on teen use of games (defined in very broad terms) the report is interesting reading. It is revealing in that it shows that game playing is most definitely mainstream (95%+ participation) and that gaming is a [...]
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