Two interesting pieces of reading for those of you who have to spend time on public transport. First from the Research Information Network in the UK comes a report that looks at the need of academic researchers in discovering the content of museum collections using online databases. Not surprisingly “their most important wish is that [...]
Entries from November 28th, 2008
Light reading – two totally different audiences: researchers and young people
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Boxee – really social media
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One of the projects I mentioned in one of my workshops at the NZ National Digital Forum was Boxee. I was alerted to Boxee by Shannon O’Neill only a night or two ago via his RSS. Boxee is a good example of the important social side of media use and consumption. It is also a [...]
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Crossing the 1000 in the Commons
November 25th, 2008 7 Comments
A little while back we crossed the 1000 image mark for our uploads of historic images to the Commons on Flickr. We’ve just started adding a third distinct collection of images – the Phillips Collection (which joins the Tyrrell and Clyde collections). The Phillips Collection is another set of glass plate negatives taken between 1890 [...]
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ABC Innovation’s Sidetracks – a mobile heritage pilot featuring some Powerhouse content
November 11th, 2008 3 Comments
ABC Innovation has launched their Sydney Sidetracks project. This is a lovely experiment in developing a mobile heritage application which takes some of the archives of ABC TV and Radio and combines them with static imagery and research from the cultural heritage partners – Powerhouse Museum, State Library of NSW, National Film & Sound Archives, [...]
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