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 [...]
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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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On platform power: museums, authority, digital culture
October 15th, 2008 2 Comments
Nina Simon has done a great job of summing up the potential changes brought by the abundance model of digital to the museum sector. The notion of ‘museums as platforms’ is not new – even if the technologies to make them such in the digital environment are. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and [...]
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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
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 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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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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Bob Stein on ‘networked publishing’
September 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Bob Stein over at the Future of the Book has written some very engaging summative notions around the challenges and opportunities afforded by ‘networked publishing’. Stein charts the move from the multimedia model of the late 80s through to the mid 90s where CDROMs and closed ‘interactive media’ opened up new opportunities for readers but [...]
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A new collection in the Commons – Clyde Engineering
September 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
We’ve just added the start of a new collection of photographs to the Commons on Flickr. The Clyde Engineering Photograph collection is full of photographs of heavy machinery. We’ve uploaded the first 50 to give you a feeling for what will be coming in future weeks. The glass plate negatives in the Clyde photograph collection [...]
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