One of the best things I saw at the National Digital Forum in Auckland last week was DigitalNZ. Being a Kiwi myself, I am immensely proud that New Zealand has leapt forward and produced a federated collection product that aggregates and then allows access through a web interface and an open API. That it has [...]
Entries from December 2nd, 2008
NMC Horizon.au Technology Report for Aus/NZ is released
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
Earlier this year the Horizon New Media Consortium convened in Australia to develop up a Horizon report specifically for the local education space. The report, detailing six technologies in the education sector to watch, has been released. Here’s a snippet – but I encourage you to read and then send around. Remember these are technologies [...]
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Light reading – two totally different audiences: researchers and young people
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
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Boxee – really social media
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
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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DIY museums on Not Quite Art Series 2 (ABC TV)
October 25th, 2008 1 Comment
If you happen to live in Australia (or know someone who does), then you might be interested in the final episode of series 2 of Marcus Westbury’s Not Quite Art. This final episode is on ‘DIY museums’ and how cultural institutions are adapting to the digital environment. It screens on ABC TV on Tuesday night [...]
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Some QR code clarifications
October 23rd, 2008 2 Comments
I’ve had several emails, tweets and general interest in more information about our QR code experiment so here’s some more information. Firstly, it has to be said that the experiment was sub-optimal. We made mistakes – but I think that making mistakes in order to learn from them is something Australians (and museums) need to [...]
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