One of the biggest hurdles for in-gallery App take up – actually any in-gallery technology take up – is awareness. So when you’ve just released an App (read the full story), a cross-platform one at that, for a new exhibition (opening July 30), then it really helps to have some very obvious visual promotion of [...]
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AR drone test flights – flying over the collection
May 11th, 2011 1 Comment
If you’ve been following some of us on Twitter you will know that the Digital teams have been experimenting with different kinds of consumer-grade filming technologies to offer new ways of seeing behind the scenes at the Museum. We’ve had the camera-mounted robot cockroach that scuttles underneath large objects to view the undersides of things, [...]
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Exploring ‘The Bandstand, Hyde Park’ – another video experiment with the Commons on Flickr
November 27th, 2008 Comments Off
On the back of the great feedback on the last video, Jean-Francois Lanzarone has made a whole lot of new little video explorations and here’s one that gets incredible detail out of again, a single image. The original image is available in the Commons and in our online catalogue as well. These little 90 second [...]
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Exploring ‘On the wallaby track’ – a video experiment with the Commons on Flickr
October 31st, 2008 5 Comments
We’ve been experimenting with a few ways of showing up some of the amazing and often hidden details in some of the Tyrrell images we are putting up into the Commons. Jean-Francois Lanzarone put this little test video together in an hour today. This one reveals the detail of ‘On the wallaby track’ that shows [...]
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Powerhouse’s first video on ABC Fora
September 18th, 2008 Comments Off
Today the ABC’s new cross platform talks site, Fora put the first bit of Powerhouse Museum content online. Recorded just yesterday, the talk covers the Powerhouse’s shoe collection and coincides with the new edition of our publication Stepping out: three centuries of shoes. You can watch the talk on the ABC Fora website, share and [...]
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Video archives in YouTube? – National Library of Scotland
July 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Lorcan Dempsey pointed to this rather excellent presentation titled ‘There’s No Place Like Home?’ from Ann Cameron at the National Library of Scotland. In it she describes way that the NLS has been uploading archival video materials to YouTube and highlights some of the issues around Copyright, and metadata that have emerged from the project. [...]
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True Design – Powerhouse Museum’s latest digital storytelling productions
August 4th, 2007 Comments Off
We are very lucky to have within our museum a pair of media production labs – SoundHouse VectorLab – where the public can do short, low cost courses in video and music production. A spinoff of these facilities is a series of digital storytelling projects. Usually these projects are run in regional and rural communities [...]
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OPAC2 does video
June 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
We have added the first of a batch of videos to our collection database. The first one features Tom Crawford, a former train driver who drove one of the locomotives in our collection discussing his experience. Rather serendipitously Tom’s family made contact with the Museum and Irma Havlicek from the Web Services team organised for [...]
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Weekly digital media production tips
March 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Over at the site promoting the Powerhouse Museum’s digital media learning labs (SoundHouse VectorLab) we’ve started a weekly ‘tip of the week’ series written by the Vector Lab boss Mike Jones. The ‘tip of the week‘ series covers everything from simple Photoshop tasks to how-to do tricky video editing tricks with Premiere and Vegas. And, [...]
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Testing podcast transcription – Casting Words
February 17th, 2007 Comments Off
Audio transcription is an essential part of digitisation. Our curatorial researchers are recording thousands of hours of interviews with subjects onto a mix of analogue (tapes) and digital (MP3/WAV) media. These oral histories are filed away for preservation purposes but will remain almost unusable in any serious way until they are digitised – that is, [...]
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