Adam Greenfield at Urbanscale just posted some interesting research his team has been doing in NYC on the citizen familiarity of QR codes. This is especially timely as QR codes are getting a lot of interest (finally) from the cultural sector. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has been doing QR codes for a few years [...]
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Early MoveMe wi-fi heat maps from Love Lace exhibition
October 31st, 2011 1 Comment
Several months ago I announced that the Powerhouse Museum was a partner in the MoveMe pilot project funded under NSW Government’s Collaborative Solutions Program. We’ve been working with Ramp, MOB Labs, ShopperTrak and Smarttrack RFID to deploy the pilot in our recent Love Lace exhibition. This exhibition is ideal for trialling location aware content delivery [...]
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“Do curators dream of electric collection records?” Exploring how the Powerhouse online collection is used
October 8th, 2011 2 Comments
As one of the first of a ‘new style’ of museum online collections, launching several internet generations ago in 2006, the Powerhouse Museum’s collection database has been undergoing a rethink in recent times. Five years is a very long time on the web and not only has the landscape of online museum collections radically changed, [...]
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Let’s Get Real report from Culture24 now available
September 22nd, 2011 No Comments
Over in the UK right now Culture 24 are launching a report I worked on with them and many of the major cultural institutions in the UK. Coming from a need amongst web/digital people to find better ways of measuring the effectiveness of their work in the sector, the report – Let’s Get Real – [...]
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More on mobile tech impacts in museums (extended Mashable remix)
September 15th, 2011 5 Comments
There’s a nice introductory piece today that features some of the recent Powerhouse Museum work in Mashable. It is a broad overview piece of how the Smithsonian, the NY Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Powerhouse have been utilising mobile technologies in galleries and exhibitions. Reading some of the comments and picking up on some [...]
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Early App and QR code scanning data from Love Lace exhibition
August 23rd, 2011 11 Comments
I promised updates on the data coming from the QR code implementation in the Love Lace exhibition so here are the results of the last 4 weeks since opening. Already we’ve released updates to both the iOS and Android versions of the Love Lace App. Perhaps surprisingly it has been the Android App that has [...]
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Prototyping moveME – a location-aware indoor mobile App with tracking
June 6th, 2011 2 Comments
Last week at CeBIT the announcement came through that a project that has been under wraps for a little while now received NSW Government funding to move ahead. It is a collaborative project bringing together commercial partners with the Museum being used, as our Director puts it in the media release, “to directly support the [...]
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Interview with Mia Ridge on museum metadata games
January 3rd, 2011 2 Comments
Mia Ridge is the lead developer at the Science Museum in London. She approached us in 2010 to use our collection database in her Masters research project which looks at the impact of different interfaces in museum collection-related ‘games’. Her research project is up and running at Museumgam.es where you can partake in a variety [...]
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A/B headline switching for museum content
November 26th, 2010 8 Comments
Regular readers will know that I’ve been fascinated by the overlap between museum curatorial practice and journalism over the past while. Similarly I’ve also been very interested in the impact of behavioural data on these professions that is emerging at scale and in real-time on digital platforms. So I was very excited to find that [...]
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Testing an engagement metric and finding surprising results
November 7th, 2010 3 Comments
As regular readers know I’ve been working on web metrics for a few years now and experimenting with different models for cultural institutions. So it was with interest I read the Philly.com’s equation for online engagement over at Nieman Journalism Lab. … two months ago, philly.com, home of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, began [...]
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