The latest First Monday contains a great essay titled Always on: libraries in a world of permanent connectivity. Written by OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey it gives a broad overview of the changes in networked communication and service delivery and explores the coming issues for libraries (and by extension, museums) wrought by mobile communications and mobile patrons. [...]
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Demspey on libraries, networked services and mobile communications
January 8th, 2009 1 Comment
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Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication 2009 conference and short interview with Shelley Bernstein
January 8th, 2009 3 Comments
In early March at Melbourne Museum the follow-up conference to last year’s Social Media & Cultural Communication takes place. This time the conference has been re-named and slightly refocussed as Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication and has a great lineup of speakers from around the country and overseas. Join leading national and international experts [...]
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Community resilience – the emerging Commons community
January 8th, 2009 2 Comments
Courtney at the National Library of NZ beat me to it but as she writes, Flickr staff and Flickr users have visibly self-organised to grow the Commons on Flickr. There’s a new public Flickr Commons group on Flickr and today, a new Commons blog – Indicommons. These point of presence are acting as meeting places [...]
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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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Dan Hill makes a modernism in Australia map for Modern Times (or interesting things clever people do when they have some spare time)
September 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Dan Hill from Arup and the author of the wonderful City of Sound blog wrote a review of the Powerhouse’s Modern Times exhibition. In his criticism of the exhibition he wondered where the extra-exhibition content was – especially given the perfect fit between the content of the exhibition and specific places and sites. He describes [...]
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Modern Times exhibition on Flickr
August 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Last week we started another experiment on Flickr. At the moment we have an exhibition, Modern Times, which is about modernism in Australia. The exhibition is a quite spectacular mix of objects – including a lovely set of milkbar seats to sit on (!!) – and ends with a triple projector immersive audio-visual experience produced [...]
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Powerhouse on Facebook
August 10th, 2008 2 Comments
We’ve kept this quiet so far but along with the start of the Sydney Design 08 campaign the Museum launched a small Facebook presence. Importantly this presence is managed as a joint effort between the Museum’s Marketing Department and the Web Services Unit, rather than just being a web project. Sydney Design has a profile [...]
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Re-ingesting Flickr tags from the Commons back into our collection OPAC
July 25th, 2008 5 Comments
Today we completed the circle. We have started presenting the tags that Flickr users have left on our images in the Commons on Flickr in their associated collection records in our online collection database. What this means is that the large number of tags added to our photographic collection in Flickr now are available in [...]
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The Commons on Flickr: finding the Mosman Bay Falls
June 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Whilst we are collating the data to report on the Museum’s first three months in the Commons on Flickr, I’ll share one of the best stories to come from the project for us so far – the story of finding the Mosman Bay Falls. Amongst our photographs we found two images simply titled ‘Mosman Bay [...]
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