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Before 1:00 am	The MCN Alternate Reality Game Wed, 11/16/2011 - 1:00am - Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00pm Room: tbd... Nettrice R. Gaskins More... Play the MCN 2011 ARG! The game industry has been exploring new technology approaches that give them the agility to cross platform boundaries and lower the barriers of entry, thus facilitating widespread adoption by people. This year the MCN conference attendees are invited to experience these new developments through an on-site Alternate Reality Game (ARG) as a collaboration between conference coordinators and staff and local gaming experts. A companion half-day workshop on Wednesday will guide participants through the steps to create their own games, and the game will be played throughout the Conference. Full description Submitters: Name: Nettrice R. Gaskins Title: Digital Media Ph.D. candidate Organization: Digital Media Ph.D. candidate Bio: Nettrice Gaskins' work explores the intersection of art, technology, and community. In both real and virtual worlds her work is about extending notions of the inter-medial by breaking down the boundaries between various art forms in radical ways. In fact she chooses not to distinguish her work in one area or space. In Second Life, as the avatar Nettrice Beattie, she has created several immersive and artistic installations including a recent one for IBM's Exhibition Space. Nettrice received a BFA in Computer Graphics, with Honors, from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Last year she enrolled in the Digital Media PhD program at Georgia Institute of Technology. Preview of the day's sessions Sat, 11/19/2011 - 12:30am - 1:00am Room: International North Paul Marty, Christina DePaolo More... The day's sessions previewed and promoted by MCN presidents, present, past and future! Full description Submitters: Name: Paul Marty Title: Associate Professor Organization: Associate Professor Bio: Paul F. Marty is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. He has a background in ancient history and computer science engineering, and his Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1996 to 2002, he was Director of Information Technology at the Spurlock Museum. Name: Christina DePaolo Title: Board Member and VP Organization: Board Member and VP Bio: Christina is currently serving her fifth year on the board at MCN and has enjoyed watching the organization grow and evolve. She celebrating her one year anniversary as Director of New Media at the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, after being the New Media Manger at the Seattle Art Museum for thirteen years.
1:00 am	Web accessibility: best practices and strategies in content and design Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 4:30am Room: Brussels Helen Petrie, Christopher Power, Marcus Weisen More... A workshop on the practicalities of making the web and other digital technologies accessible to people with disabilities and older people. An overview of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines V2 and other guidelines relevant to the accessibility of digital technologies will be given. A range of methods for effectively but easily involving audiences with disabilities will be discussed. A development lifecycle for digital applications which includes accessibility will be presented. Full description Submitters: Name: Helen Petrie Title: Professor Organization: Professor Bio: Helen is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in the UK. She has interested in the use of technologies in museums for both mainstream audiences, audiences with disabilities and older audiences. She has been involved in new technologies for disabled and older people since the early 1990s when she worked for the Royal National Institute for Blind People. She is particularly interested in access to the Web and mobile devices for disabled and older people. She recently received an ACM Award for the social impact of her research and in 2012 she will be the Lisa Meitner Memorial Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Name: Christopher Power Title: Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction Organization: Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction Bio: Dr. Christopher Power is a Lecturer in the Human Computer Interaction Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. A software engineer by training, Dr. Power’s research emphasizes user requirements and evaluation methodologies for the creation of compelling interactive technologies that are usable and accessible to all users. He is particularly interested in the usability and accessibility of applications in the cultural heritage sector and is currently supervising two EngD students on this topic. Dr. Power has previously worked as a web engineer for a major international insurance company in Canada, and currently consults on usability and requirements management for a variety of industries. Name: Marcus Weisen Title: Director Organization: Director Bio: Marcus is Director of the Jodi Mattes Trust which gives the annual International and UK Jodi Awards for accessible digital culture (www.jodiawards.org.uk). He is Content Director of the St Dunstan’s ‘In Touch with Art’ Conference on equal access to museums for visually impaired people (www.st-dunstans.org.uk/itwa) Marcus is also a free-lance consultant in museum access for people with a disability. Clients include the Louvre, the British Museum, CulutralHeritage Norway and DEMOS Belgium. 2002- 2007: Health and Disability Adviser, Museums Libraries and Archives Council, England. 1987-2002: Arts Officer, Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK. Marcus has extensive international experience and in conference programming. Collaboration that Works: 2 Years in Balboa Park – a case study about collaborative projects at Balboa Park Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am Room: Cairo Vivian Kung-Haga, Perian Sully, Maren Dougherty, Kristi Ehrig-Burgess, Rich Cherry More... In good times and bad, collaboration between institutions can positively affect budgets, ease workflows, and achieve projects that might normally be impossible or difficult to complete. At San Diego’s Balboa Park, a dedicated team of experts are helping 21 cultural institutions achieve their dreams through technology deployed with thoughtfulness and innovation. These institutions are reaping the benefits of shared knowledge and resources, bringing them together in ways rarely seen in cultural organizations. Full description Submitters: Name: Vivian Kung-Haga Title: Deputy Director Organization: Deputy Director Bio: bio in progress Name: Perian Sully Title: Project Manager: Digital Asset Management and Online Access Organization: Project Manager: Digital Asset Management and Online Access Bio: Perian Sully, Project Manager: Digital Asset Management and Online Access, is a digital humanities technologist specializing in helping museums put their collections online and make them accessible in innovative ways. Before joining BPOC, Perian was the Collection Information Manager and Web Programs Strategist at the Magnes in Berkeley, and was instrumental in creating the Magnes' integrated archives-library-museum collection management system and online database, the institutional website, and in launching a host of digital programs. She has also worked at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis and the Visual Resources Library, UC Davis. She received her Masters degree in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University and a Bachelors degree in Studio Art from UC Davis. In addition, Perian is the Program Chair for the Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums and she is a regular contributor and administrator of the blog, Musematic. Name: Maren Dougherty Title: Senior Editor Organization: Senior Editor Bio: Maren Dougherty, Senior Editor, is an experienced journalist and nonprofit public affairs manager. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Maren has contributed to several national publications that include National Geographic Adventure, New York Magazine, and Teen People magazine. She has also written about San Diego attractions for Fodor's Travel Guides, San Diego Citysearch, and SanDiego.com. Maren has more than four years of experience managing fund development, communications, and advocacy for Survivors of Torture, International, a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that serves refugees and asylum seekers. She is happy to have the opportunity to focus her writing on the amazing cultural institutions in Balboa Park. Name: Kristi Ehrig-Burgess Title: Library, Archives and Digitization Manager Organization: Library, Archives and Digitization Manager Bio: Kristi Ehrig Burgess is Mingei International Museum’s Library, Archives and Digitization Manager. She is currently working on several digitization projects with the goal of enhancing the Museum’s online collection. Kristi holds a degree in Art History from the University of North Texas. Name: Rich Cherry Title: Director Organization: Director Bio: Rich Cherry is the Director of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, a technology collaborative of 26 museums, cultural arts and science institutions in Balboa Park San Diego. Formerly he was the director of Operations at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where he oversaw Information Technology, Operations, Admissions, Facilities, Security, capital projects and construction. His has also held positions as the CIO and Director of Facilities at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the CIO of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. He has also taught New Media theory, web design and animation in the Media Studies department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His experience includes executive management of Information Technology, Web Services, Library Services, Digital Imaging, Museum Admissions, Security and Facility departments. He has initiated, developed funding streams for and implemented significant technology projects in all areas of museum operations, including major network infrastructure upgrades, digitization of collections, online access to the collection management systems, library catalog, educational material and selections from the archives, as well implementing and integrating retail, financial, visitor and membership management systems. He is a board member of the Museum Computer Network serving on the executive committee and as chair of the finance committee, serves on the advisory board of Fluid Engage, a Mellon Foundation funded project involving an international group of designers, developers, volunteers, and advisers who focus improving the user experience of community and open source web applications with an emphasis on addressing some of the challenges faced by museums and cultural institutions as they work to incorporate new technology into their web, mobile, and physical spaces and he is a co-founder of Steve.Museum and served on the steering committee. He has served on committees such as the Program Committee for the Museums and the Web Conference from 2005-2008, the WNED Life Long Digital Learning Advisory Committee, advising a regional PBS on the use of digital media for education and as Chair of the Technology Committee for the Art Museum Image Consortium, a consortium dedicated to enabling educational use of museum multimedia. Adventures in Augmented Reality Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am Room: Hong Kong Laurie Stepp, Taylor McDonald, Robert Costello, Miguel Palma, Bob Tarren, Paul F. Marty, Ph.D. More... Augmented reality has an increasing presence in industry and commerce. In the art world, it’s used for guerilla exhibitions, can replace ads with art, and spur interaction and discussion. There is a proliferation of new platforms and programs for augmenting imagery or audio, for storytelling and information. Geolocated augmentation can bring back the power of place. AR branches into image recognition, with the potential to give visitors intuitively triggered augmentation to help solve problems of language and labels. AR connects with the 3D digitization of objects. Can museums find meaningful uses for these potentially powerful tools? Full description Submitters: Name: Laurie Stepp Title: MA candidate Organization: MA candidate Bio: Masters candidate, Johns Hopkins University Museum Studies. Extensive background in multimedia and fine art. Recent intern and volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Mobile Strategies and Initiatives. Name: Taylor McDonald Title: President Organization: President Bio: Taylor McDonald serves as the President and Co-Founder of Second\|Site, a technology company focused on bridging geospatial information with the Augmented Reality environment. Based in Chattanooga, TN, the team at Second\|Site has a combined 40 years of professional experience in GIS technologies and media development for various federal, state, and privately funded GIS research initiatives. Prior to Second\|Site, Taylor helped build the Environmental Division for Wilson and Associates, P.C. As Senior Environmental Projects Manager, Taylor developed and administered systems for successful environmental compliance for over $700 million in award winning federal, state and local construction projects. Taylor and Andy are both graduates of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Environmental Science Masters program in 2002. Taylor has a BS in Biology from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. With his family and friends, Taylor enjoys camping, throwing frisbee and an occasional howl at the moon. Name: Robert Costello Title: National Outreach Program Manager Organization: National Outreach Program Manager Bio: Working on AR for the National Museum of Natural History Name: Miguel Palma Title: US Business Development Lead Organization: US Business Development Lead Bio: Five (5) years of business development experience with focus on finding the connection between emerging technologies and how it applies to traditional industries. Experience working in both venture-backed and Fortune 500 companies across mobile, healthcare, financial and manufacturing industries. Name: Bob Tarren Title: Director of Marketing Organization: Director of Marketing Bio: Worked with the campaign that publicized Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris Name: Paul F. Marty, Ph.D. Title: Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies Organization: Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies Bio: Dr. Marty's research and teaching interests include museum informatics, information behavior, and user-centered design. He specializes in the study of museums as sociotechnical systems, and is particularly interested in the social implications of introducing new technologies into the museum environment. His current research focuses on the evolution of sociotechnical systems and collaborative work practices, digital convergence and the evolving roles of information professionals, and involving users in the co-construction of digital knowledge. Culture Hack Day MCN Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 7:30am Room: International North Rachel Coldicutt, Katy Beale More... The first Culture Hack Day in London in January 2012 brought together 12 cultural organisations with 3 media companies and over 100 software developers to make exciting cultural-digital products. To celebrate the theme of this year's conference, we'd like to recreate this and encourage attendees to engage in agile, iterative practices. Bring along your museum's data - whether it's in a CSV file, an open API or an RSS feed - and spend the day working in teams to create rapid prototypes and develop new creative ideas to make the next generation of tools, websites and applications. Whether you're a developer, designer, produceror curator, you'll get the opportunity to create new products, enrich the museum sector and transform hidden data into exciting new applications. Culture Hack Day MCN is sponsored by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC). Full description Submitters: Name: Rachel Coldicutt Title: Founder Organization: Founder Bio: Rachel is a strategist and creative producer who has been making interactive media since 1997, working across the arts and entertainment sectors for companies including Microsoft, BT, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the BBC, the V&A, UKTV and Endemol. She was until recently Head of Digital Media at the Royal Opera House, and is now helping to create digital strategies for the cultural sector. Current fascinations include hack culture, making buttons with 3D printers and telling interesting stories. Name: Katy Beale Title: Founder Organization: Founder Bio: Katy Beale helps creative and cultural organisations interact with and develop their audiences, often using digital and social media. She also works with marketing agencies on strategy and creative ideas for brands. She’s currently working on: plotting future hack days, editing the soon-to-be-published Museums at Play book, leading the Royal Academy on their digital strategy and co-curating an event for London Word Festival on future libraries called No Furniture So Charming. THATCamp MCN Unconference Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 10:00am Room: Manila & Singapore Amanda French More... THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. It is an unconference, which means that there are no presentations, and all participants work together to form the program. On Saturday, November 19 in downtown Atlanta, GA, the Museum Computer Network is sponsoring THATCamp MCN, a free, day-long unconference for anyone interested in how new technologies and platforms are changing the landscape of museums. The detailed schedule for the THATCamp sessions can be found on the MCN2011 THATCamp website: http://mcn2011.thatcamp.org/schedule/ Full description Submitters: Name: Amanda French Title: THATCamp Coordinator Organization: THATCamp Coordinator Bio: I consider myself a member of the community of practice known as the “digital humanities,” which means that I think hard about how the study of literature, history, and philosophy has been and is being and might be changed by computers and the Internet — but I don’t limit myself to thinking; I get my hands dirty, thus causing some of the very change I think about, in an inexcusable breach of objectivity. I am currently THATCamp Coordinator at the Center for History and New Media. Last year, I was an Assistant Research Scholar in the Archives and Public History program at New York University, where I helped develop a model digital curriculum, and where I developed and taught the graduate course “Creating Digital History.” Before that, I taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Victorian poetry and poetics, the Victorian period, and academic research methods for the digital age as a Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. I held the Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2004 to 2006. What is forever? Archiving exhibitions in the digital age Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am Room: Montreal Christine Kuan, Jonathan Lill, Deborah Wythe, Geertje Jacobs, Nik Honeysett More... With new technologies at our disposal, more of the exhibition experience may be captured and preserved for future research and enjoyment. This session will explore how museums currently archive their exhibition materials and recent thinking about how new media changes the possibilities for and the challenges to preserving, disseminating, and engaging with exhibitions for future generations. Full description Submitters: Name: Christine Kuan Title: Chief Content Officer & VP of External Affairs Organization: Chief Content Officer & VP of External Affairs Bio: Christine Kuan oversees collection development and communications at ARTstor. Kuan was formerly the Senior Editor of Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press. She has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rutgers University, the University of Iowa, and Beijing University. She currently serves on the Rhizome Advisory Board. Name: Jonathan Lill Title: Project Archivist Organization: Project Archivist Bio: Jonathan Lill is a Project Archivist at MOMA where he has organized the papers of artist Scott Burton, gallery owner Richard Bellamy, and writer Calvin Tompkins. He is currently in the midst of a 4-year project to assemble and open to the public the 40-year record history of MOMA PS1. Name: Deborah Wythe Title: Head of Digital Collections and Services Organization: Head of Digital Collections and Services Bio: Deborah Wythe is the Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum and formerly the Museum Archivist. Name: Geertje Jacobs Title: Head of Collection Information Organization: Head of Collection Information Bio: Geertje Jacobs is head of the department Collection Information in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The focus of this department is archiving and making accessible all analog and digital information on the objects in the museum’s collection. Developing new policy and guiding projects on the management and use of the collection data and documents are her main field of work. The last few years she has also been involved in several externally funded research projects with the Semantic Web Group of the Amsterdam Universities (Multimedian, Catch, Agora). Name: Nik Honeysett Title: Head of Administration Organization: Head of Administration Bio: Nik Honeysett is the Head of Administration at the Getty Museum, and leading the Getty Online Scholarly Catalogue Initative (OSCI). IPO: A new way to think about museum visitors Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am Room: Vancouver Andrew Pekarik, Ph.D., Zahava Doering, Barbara Mogel, James Schreiber, Ph.D. More... This workshop presents an ongoing interdisciplinary research project on a typology of museum visitor experience preferences. The typology distinguishes three major types of experience preferences -- for Ideas, for People, and for Objects. These differences affect how people distribute attention, how they behave, and how they respond. The theory includes a specific method for providing experiences that visitors will regard as superior, and thus offers practical advice for enhancing the effectiveness of displays, exhibitions, and websites. Full description Submitters: Name: Andrew Pekarik, Ph.D. Title: Program Analyst Organization: Program Analyst Bio: Andrew Pekarik, Ph.D., Program Analyst in the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Policy and Analysis, has been designing and conducting studies of Smithsonian museums, exhibitions, and programs since 1994. Using techniques ranging from individual in-depth interviews to large-scale survey studies, he has sought to understand and communicate the needs, behaviors, and responses of museum audiences. At the same time he has worked closely with museum staff to incorporate the findings of these studies into future programs by participating in planning teams and by suggesting new approaches to the development process. Studies that he has produced can be accessed at the Office of Policy and Analysis website (http://www.si.edu/opanda). Prior to joining the Smithsonian he worked as a curator, author, museum administrator and exhibition organizer. Name: Zahava Doering Title: Senior Social Scientist Organization: Senior Social Scientist Bio: Zahava D. Doering, a University of Chicago sociologist, has had many years of experience in social science research and studies in museums. Since 1987, when she was the founding director of the Institutional Studies Office (ISO], now part of the larger Office of Policy and Analysis, she has worked with Smithsonian and non-Smithsonian museums to understand and provide effective visitor experiences to adults, families and especially young people. Doering’s second major professional activity is serving as Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal. She is past chair of AAM's Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE), on the Editorial Board of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA) and the Board of the Council of American Jewish Museums. Name: Barbara Mogel Title: Exhibit Developer/Manager Organization: Exhibit Developer/Manager Bio: Barbara Stewart Mogel received a Special Major Master of Arts for interdisciplinary studies (visual arts and natural sciences) from California State University, Fullerton, CA. Her Bachelor of Arts degree in studio arts is from Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Barbara has created museum plans and interpretive exhibitions since 1979. As the principal of a design firm for over four years, she was responsible for interpretive, wayfinding and civic promotion projects for the City of San Diego, the California Coastal Commission, and the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce. As a senior design manager at an international design firm in Boston, MA, she conceptualized the master plan for Exploris Museum in Raleigh, NC, and managed the development and design of two opening exhibits for the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York. For seven years she was the first director of the Maryland Historical Trust’s Exhibit Services Program that provided museum planning, exhibit design, fabrication, and training for Maryland’s numerous history museums. Barbara joined the NMAI staff in 2002 as a project manager. She is currently the exhibit developer/manager for two 8,000 square foot history exhibits, one about Native American treaties across the United States, and other highlighting the engineering accomplishments of the Inka Empire. She is the team leader for the Window of Collections object rotations scheduled for 2012-2014. The Window on Collections work has involved extensive visitor studies with the Smithsonian’s Office of Policy and Analysis that has resulted in a new visitor typology to inform object selection, content development and presentation. Name: James Schreiber, Ph.D. Title: Professor of Education Research and Visiting Research Scholar Organization: Professor of Education Research and Visiting Research Scholar Bio: James B. Schreiber, Ph.D. received his doctorate from Indiana University Bloomington in Learning and Cognition with a minor is Research Methodology and Statistics. He is a Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Duquesne University. Before teaching at the university level, he taught high school mathematics (Pre-algebra through AP Calculus AB/BC) and was Department Chair. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in courses in human learning, human development, assessment, research methodology, and statistical modeling. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Educational Research and has been the editor of The Journal of Experimental Education and Genetics, Social, and General Psychology Monographs. His research focuses on beliefs and engagement and appropriate research methodology.
3:00 am	Yelling Across the Divide: New Contexts for Using Library, Archival, and Museum Collections Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am Room: Cairo Carolyn Sheffield, Danielle Castronovo, Rebecca Morin More... The Field Book Project, The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and Connecting Content are distinct yet intersecting projects that use collaboration and innovation to leverage resources and improve access to important natural history collections. Each can be defined as collaborative in its own right. The three projects also directly collaborate with one another to build connections and ensure compatibility across related resources. The Field Book Project is a CLIR-funded project to improve access to primary-source field books at the Smithsonian and is being extended to accept content from other natural history museums. BHL is a consortium of 12 libraries working to digitize and deliver legacy taxonomic literature, and Connecting Content is an IMLS-funded project to define and provide logical connections between field notes, specimens, and published literature. This session will present an overview of how these projects complement each other. Full description Submitters: Name: Carolyn Sheffield Title: Project Manager, Field Book Project Organization: Project Manager, Field Book Project Bio: Carolyn Sheffield is the Project Manager on the Field Book Project. She serves as the primary contact for external institutions wishing to participate in the system's development and testing or through the contribution of content to the Field Book Registry. Prior to joining the project, Carolyn served as a statewide grants coordinator providing guidance on grant management to Maryland public libraries. From 2004 to 2006, she was the Project Manager and User Studies Coordinator for CLiMB, a large scale research project at the University of Maryland that focused on metadata extraction for image access. Her previous experience also includes coordinating a visual artists' registry comprised of an online database and physical collection representing the work of artists in the mid-Atlantic region. Carolyn holds an M.L.S. from the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. in Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Name: Danielle Castronovo Title: Archives & Digital Collections Librarian Organization: Archives & Digital Collections Librarian Bio: Danielle Castronovo is the Archives and Digital Collections Librarian at the California Academy of Sciences. She is co-Principal Investigator on a 2010 IMLS National Leadership Grant project titled "Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes to Specimens and Published Literature." Before joining the Academy, Danielle worked as a Project Archivist at the Shubert Archive, NY where she processed and digitized theatrical costume design sketches from the 1910s-1920s. Danielle received her M.L.S. and Archive Certificate from Queens College, her M.F.A. in Costume Design from Rutgers University and her B.A. in Theater Design from Binghamton University. Name: Rebecca Morin Title: User Services Librarian Organization: User Services Librarian Bio: Rebecca Morin is the User Services Librarian at the California Academy of Sciences Library. She oversees all aspects of the patron experience, including library systems, reference, education, outreach, collection development, and curation of the rare book collection. Becky is an active member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Staff Group and Collections Committee. She is co-Principal Investigator on a 2010 IMLS National Leadership Grant project titled "Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes to Specimens and Published Literature." Prior to joining the California Academy of Sciences in 2007, Becky worked in Reference at the Science & Engineering Division of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. She also processed collections of historic family films at the City of Vancouver Archives. Becky received her M.L.I.S. and her M.A.S. from the University of British Columbia, and her B.A. in Music from Wellesley College. Creating a better learning experience Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am Room: Hong Kong James Quo-Ping Lin, Tien-Yu Hsu, Jessie Tsai, Christina DePaolo (Chair) More... While today’s users became used to highly interactive and visualized online environment, museums are driven to figure out creative ways to present the educational materials. In this panel, three cases will be introduced to show how to use new technology to engage the audience better. First, a set of interactive kiosks invented by the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, combing gesture-based computing and multi-touch screen, enable users to approach ancient Chinese painting and calligraphic works and see the details, which are normally not allowed due to conservation reason. Secondly, the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, created a game based learning website for children with knowledgeable, storytelling, explorative learning, joyful, and personalized characteristics. Lastly, an online exhibition website created by Academia Sinica gives an example on using new technology to represent and visualize the 2.5 million-word calligraphy diaries and attract the general public to appreciate the rather academic-oriented text-based material. Full description Submitters: Name: James Quo-Ping Lin Title: Researcher and Deputy Chief, Division of Education, Exhibition, and Information Services Organization: Researcher and Deputy Chief, Division of Education, Exhibition, and Information Services Bio: Dr. Lin obtained his Master degree in computer science and Ph. D. degree in engineering management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He previously worked at the National Tax Administration of Taipei and held managerial positions in Taiwan companies. He was an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Taipei College of Business. He also held the positions of Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of Information Management at Huafan University. His academic specialty lies in management information system, marketing information system, data analysis and design, as well as e-business. Dr. Lin used to serve as Director of the Information Management System Center and the Chief Curator of Exhibition Service Department at the National Palace Museum, guiding development of information technology at the museum. Now He is Researcher at Department of Education, Exhibition, and Information Services. Dr. Lin is also the incumbent secretary-general of the Chinese Association of Museums in Taipei, Taiwan, adjunct associate professor of National Taiwan University of Arts, and vice president of Museum Computer Network Taiwan Chapter. Name: Tien-Yu Hsu Title: Associate Curator Organization: Associate Curator Bio: Tien-Yu Hsu is Associate Curator at the National Museum of Natural Science(NMNS). He received his doctorate degree at the Institutes of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Prior to his current position, he was Research Assistant and Assistant Curator at NMNS. Since he joined the museum in 1991, he was involved in the management information system and network system development of the whole museum. After 1998, his responsibility lies in the planning and implementation of the digital museum of NMNS. He is in charge of the management and coordination of the museum’s digital archives project, one of the institutional projects under Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program(TELDAP). He is also the host of “The NMNS Integration and Development of Digital Museum of Natural & Culture,” a TELDAP institutional sub-project, and “The NMNS International Exchange Project,” a project under the 8th Division of TELDAP. His research area includes digital museums, digital archives, e-Learning, and mobile learning. He is the chair the Educational Application and Promotion SIG of Museum Computer Network Taiwan Chapter. Name: Jessie Tsai Title: Research Assistant Organization: Research Assistant Bio: Jessie Tsai joined Taiwan E-learning and Digital Archives Program(TELDAP) in 2006 after receiving her MA in Journalism in the National Taiwan University. She helps to promote the use of digital archives through writing and publication. Name: Christina DePaolo (Chair) Title: New Media Director Organization: New Media Director Bio: Christina DePaolo in Director of New Media at the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) where she is heading up a large-scale collections online project, as well as managing Drupal website production, collections digitization, and in-gallery interpretive efforts for over 15 of the Balboa Park Museums. She has worked in the arts for 17 years with more than 12 years of project management and leadership experience in the field of interpretive technology. Before her recent move to BPOC, Christina worked at the Seattle Art Museum as the New Media Manager and has held other titles including Interim Information Technology Director, Promotions and Web Site Manager, and Kiosk Producer. As New Media Manger she was responsible for production and management of online communication efforts for SAM: website, email marketing and social networking. She has produced award-winning interpretive educational kiosks, numerous websites and put collections online. She has extensive experience in website design, usability testing and audience research, the development and deployment of content management tools, large-scale collection digitization projects, rights and reproduction management, software development and upgrades, implementing processes and workflows for web publication of digital assets. She has managed the development of over 20 interactive media tools for exhibitions and collection projects. Before she left SAM, she lead the efforts to implement social media and interactive technology in the museum space. Christina is currently Vice-President Elect of the Museum Computer Network and has been a board member of the organization for five years. Open-Source Solutions Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am Room: Montreal Rob Lancefield More... This panel will feature four independent presentations addressing specific uses of open-source software in museums and by community members who are engaged with museum content. The topics will be: 1. GIS: Common Problems and Open Solutions 2. Field Notes: How The Field Museum Deployed Drupal 7 3. Using Freebase to Reconcile Museum Records: Linked Open Data with a Purpose 4. Collaborative Mapping & Documenting Cultural Places Full description Submitters: Name: Rob Lancefield Title: Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Organization: Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Bio: Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Rob Lancefield is Manager of Museum Information Services and Registrar of Collections at Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center in Middletown, Connecticut. His work there ranges from managing the physical collection of art objects through to digital strategy and implementation. Rob is a former president of the Museum Computer Network. He continues to represent MCN on the American Association of Museums (AAM) Council of Affiliates, manage the MCN Group on LinkedIn, and serve the organization in other ways. Before migrating to the museum world, Rob worked primarily as a composer, improviser, and guitarist; this July, innova Recordings reissued the 1987 album "Some Day Catch Some Day Down" by Talking Drums, a collaborative group of Ghanaian and U.S. musicians performing original music that moves between jazz and African genres. GIS: Common Problems and Open Solutions Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:20am Room: Montreal Edward Bachta, Charles Moad, Kris Arnold More... It is becoming increasingly common to encounter geographical mapping and location-aware interfaces online, and museums will inherently run into many of the same problems as other industries when implementing GIS solutions. This paper surveys many of the common challenges faced in the design, implementation, and distribution of web applications based on geographic datasets. We will evaluate some of the free online authoring and delivery tools that can be used to develop and deploy GIS web applications. We will also discuss how enterprise GIS software and open source map rendering tools can be integrated to render rich datasets in visually compelling and engaging ways. Finally, we will explore clustering techniques used for extremely large geographic datasets and illustrate how geolocated collection data can be clustered and presented along with resources from external APIs that also include geolocation data. Full description Submitters: Name: Edward Bachta Title: Applications Developer Organization: Applications Developer Bio: Ed is a software developer who enjoys designing and implementing effective and engaging interactive online experiences that empower website visitors to explore and learn about the world around them. At the IMA he has developed exhibition websites, interactive features (e.g. Virtual Rome for Roman Art from the Louvre, mummy CT-scan interactives, the ArtBabble video player), and tools (e.g. project management tools, visualizations for the IMA Dashboard, Term Review for the Steve tagging project) as part of the IMA’s in-house development team. In graduate school at UIUC he specialized in computer graphics and virtual reality, and then worked in the field of scientific and information visualization at NCSA and IUPUI before entering the museum community. In addition to being fascinated with science, Ed is also interested in Edo-period and modern Japanese culture. Having studied abroad in Japan for one year as an undergraduate, he now maintains his language proficiency reading Japanese literature and news and enjoying anime and video games in the native language. Ed is also concerned about environmental sustainability, and collaborates with the museum's sustainability team on projects covering topics from power monitoring and conservation in the machine room to environmental awareness in the Art and Nature Park. Name: Charles Moad Title: IMA Lab Director Organization: IMA Lab Director Bio: Charlie leads the application development team towards providing open-source and reusable solutions for the IMA and the cultural community as a whole. His diverse programming background has helped the IMA provide internal solutions and bypass the communications barrier often experienced with museum consultants. He has been deeply involved in the integration of the museum's collection and digital asset management systems with other frameworks, including the IMA's main website. Before coming to the IMA, Charlie was an Associate Developer for the Scientific Data Analysis Lab, a Pervasive Technology Lab of Indiana University. There he worked on visualization and web service applications in the bioinformatics and life sciences realm. Charlie holds a M.S in Computer Science from Indiana University. Name: Kris Arnold Title: Applications Developer Organization: Applications Developer Bio: Kris’ interest in computer programming began around the age of 9 in his home town of Greencastle, IN. When the college let out for the summer Kris and his mother would go around the campus to go dumpster diving. One year someone left a Tandy 1000 next to the dumpster, which Kris immediately snatched up. Without money for computer games, Kris taught himself BASIC and started writing very simple text based games for something to play. For many years, computers were only a hobby for Kris until a good friend suggested he take a job with him at IQuest internet doing technical support. In his time there Kris was promoted into the operations department and handled network infrastructure duties as well as building and maintaining internal websites until the company purchased a webhosting company. After leaving IQuest, Kris took a year off to pursue his interests in photography. This eventually led him to the local alt-weekly newspaper, where he began working as a photographer. A few months later Kris applied for and was offered a position as IT Manager. Kris joined the IMA as a web developer in 2009 and spends his time writing software for the IMA’s online efforts. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:20am Field Notes: How The Field Museum Deployed Drupal 7 Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:20am - 3:40am Room: Montreal Robin Barre, David Hwang More... Discover how The Field Museum created a new web strategy and followed it with a strong implementation process: implemented the main web site (fieldmuseum.org) in Drupal 7 migrated content from static site created tools for content re-use and content administration responsibilities created a microsite builder to easily spin-off exhibition-specific sites in a timely manner created a web interface for their collection Technologies used: Solr, Drupal 7, Workbench, KE Software's EMu Full description Submitters: Name: Robin Barre Title: Senior Engineer and Team Lead Organization: Senior Engineer and Team Lead Bio: Robin has experience building Drupal-based web sites for large organizations. Recent projects include Barnard College and The Field Museum of Natural History. She specializes in architecture of the projects, taking the client's many needs and requirements and developing a plan for implementation. She manages teams of developers ranging in size of 3-10 team members. As an Engineer, Robin helps develop architectures for a variety of custom projects and has a current focus on Drupal and its Search and Media capabilities. Name: David Hwang Title: Dev Lead, Web+Digital Media Organization: Dev Lead, Web+Digital Media Bio: David has worked with The Field Museum and managed the transition to the new web strategy. His experience with the legacy systems and his knowledge of Drupal allowed him to join in the development in Drupal 7 as well as help with strategic and tactical decisions. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:20am - 3:40am Using Freebase to Reconcile Museum Records: Linked Open Data with a Purpose Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:40am - 4:00am Room: Montreal Susan Chun, Charlie Moad, Shawn Simister More... This paper will describe a proposal to use Freebase (http://wiki.freebase.com), an open repository of structured data, as a repository for museum object records and to develop a reconciliation service that will take advantage of the Google Refine service (http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/) to look up and enhance museum object records using descriptive information or vocabularies provided by members of the museum community Full description Submitters: Name: Susan Chun Title: Independent Researcher Organization: Independent Researcher Bio: Bio to be supplied. Name: Charlie Moad Title: Director IMA Lab Organization: Director IMA Lab Bio: Bio to be supplied. Name: Shawn Simister Title: Developer Programs Engineer, Freebase Organization: Developer Programs Engineer, Freebase Bio: Bio to be supplied. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:40am - 4:00am Collaborative Mapping & Documenting Cultural Places Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:20am Room: Montreal Katie Filbert More... Through the projects including OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia, it's possible to collaboratively map and document outdoor cultural places, and make use of the information in web and mobile apps, going beyond a basic Google Map mashup. Through the OpenStreetMap project, places that have been mapped include the National Zoo, Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, and Arlington National Cemetery, and the Wikipedia community has documented and mapped public art, historic sites and monuments. This presentation will cover what the communities are doing and possibilities for cultural institutions to collaborate. Full description Submitters: Name: Katie Filbert Title: Geo/Web Developer Organization: Geo/Web Developer Bio: Katie has been a volunteer with both Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia) and OpenStreetMap, for many years, and by day, works as a web developer, specializing in geospatial applications. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:20am Digital Diversity Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am Room: Vancouver Diana Folsom More... This panel includes: 1. Cultivating Diversity 2. Wikimedia & Indigenous Peoples: Pros, Cons and Community 3. Virtual Alchemy: A case study of three virtual worlds that combined data visualization, art, anthropology and storytelling Full description Submitters: Name: Diana Folsom Title: Systems Manager Organization: Systems Manager Bio: After eight years working in the field of educational technology (Courseware, Inc.), Diana Folsom brought her skills to LACMA where she has worked in the areas of Information Systems and Collections Information for the past 20 years. With an interest in meaningful uses of technology, Ms. Folsom played a key role in establishing access to LACMA's art collections on the internet. She is keenly interested in the challenges presented by database-driven displays of information. Ms. Folsom is a past Chair of AAM's Media & Technology committee, has chaired many technology panels at AAM and MCN, currently serves on the MCN board and participates in the steve-in-action project to experiment with gathering expert social tags for Tibetan art. Cultivating Diverse Participation through Digital Media Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:30am Room: Vancouver Nettrice R. Gaskins More... Dynamic, culturally situated tools such as Dr. Ron Eglash's African Fractals and other web-based applets, Evan Roth’s Graffiti Analysis software for the iPhone/iPad and Jung von Matt’s Tagged in Motion (Augmented Reality graffiti) translate local knowledge systems through digital media. Museums can use these existing, common open platforms to develop projects to cultivate participation and the quality of engagement among visitors from diverse social and economic contexts. The aim of this paper is to compare my observations from several new media forms and formats that can transform the museum-going experience and engage diverse audiences who are active users of mobile phones, gaming devices and other emerging technologies. Full description Submitters: Name: Nettrice R. Gaskins Title: Digital Media Ph.D. candidate Organization: Digital Media Ph.D. candidate Bio: Nettrice Gaskins' work explores the intersection of art, technology, and community. In both real and virtual worlds her work is about extending notions of the inter-medial by breaking down the boundaries between various art forms in radical ways. In fact she chooses not to distinguish her work in one area or space. In Second Life, as the avatar Nettrice Beattie, she has created several immersive and artistic installations including a recent one for IBM's Exhibition Space. Nettrice received a BFA in Computer Graphics, with Honors, from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Last year she enrolled in the Digital Media PhD program at Georgia Institute of Technology. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:30am Wikimedia & Indigenous Peoples: Pros, Cons and Community Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:30am - 4:00am Room: Vancouver Sarah Stierch More... Wikimedia serves as the umbrella foundation for multiple websites, most notably Wikipedia, the notable free encyclopedia, and Wikimedia Commons, a multi-media repository of free images, videos and recordings. Topics and multimedia on both websites cover all areas of interest including Indigenous related-topics, and are edited and uploaded by users, called editors. Anyone can be an editor, which has allowed for the concepts of freedom of information, Creative Commons copyright, and open-source software to step to the forefront of research and technology. How can Indigenous communities work with, benefit from and utilize Wikimedia. Full description Submitters: Name: Sarah Stierch Title: Masters Student, Wikipedian Organization: Masters Student, Wikipedian Bio: I am a Masters student in Museum Studies at George Washington University slated to graduate in 2012, with my BLA emphasis in Native American Studies from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. I am a research assistant at the National Museum of the African American History and Culture and a very active Wikipedian. Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:30am - 4:00am Virtual Alchemy: 3 virtual environments that combined art, anthropology and storytelling. Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:30am Room: Vancouver Ann Latham Cudworth More... Virtual worlds contain environments with the potential to generate in our minds a state of enormous synaptic plasticity. They can, just by being experienced, provide a basis for the increase of learning and memory in their visitors, and they can change themselves to respond to the reaction they generate in the visitors. In addition, these remarkable environments can also become a portal through which information of all kinds can be experienced in many ways. Through sight and sound, we can experience a piece of sculpture that is also telling us about tidal rhythms, or we can learn about anthropology as we play a game, looking for clues to the social structures of a fictitious culture. This presentation is a comparative case study about three interactive virtual environments that combined these qualities to create an entertaining immersive experience for the visitor. Full description Submitters: Name: Ann Latham Cudworth Title: Founder Organization: Founder Bio: Alchemy Sims designs and builds virtual environments that are interactive, immersive and visually realistic. Ann Cudworth, the founder, is a 2 time Emmy award winning designer, and teaching professional. Clients include: CBS News,60 Minutes,and IBM Start time: Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:30am
6:00 am	Digital accessibility clinic - solve your accessibility problems! Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 9:30am Room: Brussels Helen Petrie, Christopher Power More... Conference delegates are invited to submit their websites or digital applications and/or issues before the conference and the presenters will be available to discuss accessibility issues they have on a one-to-one basis. Please submit the digital application or accessibility issue that you would like to discuss to Helen.Petrie@cs.york.ac.uk<mailto:Helen.Petrie@cs.york.ac.uk> by 7th November 2011. Full description Submitters: Name: Helen Petrie Title: Professor Organization: Professor Bio: Helen is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in the UK. She has interested in the use of technologies in museums for both mainstream audiences, audiences with disabilities and older audiences. She has been involved in new technologies for disabled and older people since the early 1990s when she worked for the Royal National Institute for Blind People. She is particularly interested in access to the Web and mobile devices for disabled and older people. She recently received an ACM Award for the social impact of her research and in 2012 she will be the Lisa Meitner Memorial Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Name: Christopher Power Title: Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction Organization: Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction Bio: Dr. Christopher Power is a Lecturer in the Human Computer Interaction Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. A software engineer by training, Dr. Power’s research emphasizes user requirements and evaluation methodologies for the creation of compelling interactive technologies that are usable and accessible to all users. He is particularly interested in the usability and accessibility of applications in the cultural heritage sector and is currently supervising two EngD students on this topic. Dr. Power has previously worked as a web engineer for a major international insurance company in Canada, and currently consults on usability and requirements management for a variety of industries. Knowledge Sharing 2: What Museums Can Learn From Libraries and Archives Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am Room: Cairo Paul Marty, William Hart-Davidson, Jim Ridolfo, Trilce Navarrete Hernández , Karen Weiss More... Part two of the panel discussion on What Museums Can Learn From Libraries and Archives is moderated by Paul Marty. We will investigate this phrase by discussing a variety of methodologies used by libraries and archives to share knowledge: between collections, between institutions, and between collections/institutions and users. We will also include examples that aim to broaden and optimize communities' collections access use. Part two speakers include: William Hart-Davidson, Mike McLeod, and Jim Ridolfo (Michigan State University & University of Cincinnati): "Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network" Trilce Navarette (University of Amsterdam): "Knowledge sharing: a history of museums and libraries" Karen Weiss (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution): "Taking An Archival Approach to Digitization" Full description Submitters: Name: Paul Marty Title: Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies within the College of Communication and Information Organization: Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies within the College of Communication and Information Bio: Paul F. Marty is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. He has a background in ancient history and computer science engineering, and his Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1996 to 2002, he was Director of Information Technology at the Spurlock Museum. Name: William Hart-Davidson Title: Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Organization: Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Bio: Bill Hart-Davidson (Ph.D. 1999, Purdue) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University where he directs the Rhetoric & Writing Graduate Program and is Co-director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center. He teaches courses in Technical Communication, Interaction Design, & Research Methods. Bill’s research interests lie at the intersection of Technical Communication and Human-Computer Interaction in such areas as visualizing knowledge work processes, information and user experience design. Bill’s work has appeared in journals such as Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, Kairos, and the Journal of Software Documentation and in various edited collections. Name: Jim Ridolfo Title: Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric Organization: Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric Bio: Jim Ridolfo is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. His scholarship examines the intersection of rhetorical theory and the digital humanities. He has received a 2011-2012 Middle East Regional Research Fulbright and was co-PI for a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Startup Grant titled Archive 2.0: Imagining The Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network. Name: Trilce Navarrete Hernández Title: PhD researcher Organization: PhD researcher Bio: Trilce Navarrete Hernández is currently PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam where she investigates the adoption of digital work processes in Dutch museums from a historic perspective (1960-2011). Her thesis is tentatively entitled: “Digitization of museum collections in the Netherlands. Defining our future heritage.” She teaches at the Cultural Information Science program, and her courses have included Introduction to Research Methods, Information and Cultural Memory, Introduction to Cultural Information Science, Cultural Information Economics, Philosophy of Science, and Digital Humanities (for honors students). Navarrete Hernández holds an MA in Cultural Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MA in Museum Management from the University of Oregon. Areas of interest include the impact of new technologies in the economics of museums, national digital heritage accounts, online interactivity and digital content management. Name: Karen Weiss Title: Information Resources Manager Organization: Information Resources Manager Bio: Karen Weiss is the Information Resources Manager at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she has worked since 1980. She oversees cataloging, digitization, and the delivery of collections information to the Archives’ website http://www.aaa.si.edu. Karen received her undergraduate degree in history from the University of Buffalo and her Masters in Library Science at the University of Maryland. She is the author of "Collections Online: An Archival Approach to Digitization and Web Accessibility at the Archives of American Art" published in the Summer 2010 issue of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. Cabinets of Curiosity: Platforms for pan-institutional collecting by online audiences Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am Room: Hong Kong Nancy Proctor, Spencer Hyman, Brian Fulkerson, Scott Sayre, Charlotte Sexton More... This roundtable will formalize and deepen discussions on platforms that have been recently developed to aggregate digital assets and enable online visitors to collect and share across many institutions' collections. Below are some key questions to be addressed. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own and any experience they may already have from partcipating in pan-institutional collecting initiatives: What are the overarching challenges and opportunities for museums and visitors alike? What factors should museums consider before committing to participate in such projects. What standards in metadata, interoperability and imaging are required? What are the copyright and business model implications, both for museums and the developers of these platforms? What are the implications for non-art collections? What shifts are required of museums' institutional cultures? And most importantly, what new opportunities are opening up to enable museums to better serve their audiences and deliver on their missions via these online innovations? Full description Submitters: Name: Nancy Proctor Title: Head of Mobile Strategy and Initiatives Organization: Head of Mobile Strategy and Initiatives Bio: Nancy Proctor heads up mobile strategy and initiatives for the Smithsonian Institution. With a PhD in American art history and a background in filmmaking, curation and art criticism, Nancy Proctor published her first online exhibition in 1995. She co-founded TheGalleryChannel.com in 1998 with Titus Bicknell to present virtual tours of innovative exhibitions alongside comprehensive global museum and gallery listings. TheGalleryChannel was later acquired by Antenna Audio, where Nancy headed up New Product Development from 2000-2008, introducing the company’s multimedia, sign language, downloadable, podcast and cellphone tours. She also led Antenna’s sales in France from 2006-2007, and worked with the Travel Channel’s product development team. From 2008-2010 she was Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Nancy is program chair for the Museums Computer Network (MCN) conference and co-organizes the Tate Handheld conference among other gatherings for cultural professionals. She also manages MuseumMobile.info, its wiki and podcast series, and is Digital Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal. Name: Spencer Hyman Title: CEO Organization: CEO Bio: tbd Name: Brian Fulkerson Title: Founder / Apps and AI Organization: Founder / Apps and AI Bio: tbd Name: Scott Sayre Title: Principal Organization: Principal Bio: Scott Sayre is a founder and principal at Sandbox Studios, a Minneapolis-based group that works with museums to plan, create, manage and assess education programs and technology projects. He is also principal of Museum411, a sister company developing mobile audio solutions for cultural institutions. Scott has a doctorate in Education and has over twenty-five years of experience working with emerging education and information technologies and teaches at Johns Hopkins University, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano and has previously taught media and technology design and planning at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Victoria. In 2002-2003 Scott served as the Art Museum Image Consortium's Director of Member Services and US Operations. From 1991-2002 he was the Director of Media and Technology at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Scott was chair of the American Association of Museum’s Media and Technology Committee and is currently an Editor for Museum-Ed.org and serves on the New Media Consortium’s board of directors. Prior to his work with museums Scott was a Media Applications Researcher at the University of Minnesota's Telecommunications Development Center. Name: Charlotte Sexton Title: Head Digital Media Organization: Head Digital Media Bio: tbd Video Production for Museums Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am Room: Montreal Jesse Heinzen, Andy Underwood-Bultmann More... Museums are facing a media-hungry world and are looking for ways to produce and deliver more video and audio content. Although production tools are getting more approachable, there are numerous details an organization must take into account. This session will cover both creative and technical considerations when planning for video production. Full description Submitters: Name: Jesse Heinzen Title: Multimedia Producer Organization: Multimedia Producer Bio: Jesse serves as creative and technical director for media production at the Minnesota Historical Society. He plays an instrumental role in the development, production, and implementation of innovative multimedia experiences at the Minnesota History Center, Mill City Museum and other historic sites. During his ten years with the Society, some of his roles have included producer, editor, sound designer, and show control programmer on immersive projects like the "Flour Tower" at Mill City Museum and "This Must Be Hell" (the C-47 plane experience) at the Minnesota History Center. In 2006, Jesse directed and edited Mill City Museum’s documentary, "Minneapolis in 19 Minutes Flat." Jesse holds a BFA in film production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Name: Andy Underwood-Bultmann Title: Media Production Coordinator Organization: Media Production Coordinator Bio: Andy Underwood-Bultmann works as a media producer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota handling all elements of development from pre-production to post. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in art history and soon after began freelancing for non-profits and education institutions as a videographer. Andy¹s work at the Walker includes promotional spots, scholarly recordings, gallery content, and interpretive materials. He focuses on finding dynamic ways of recording objects and spaces, using camera motion to create fluid editing. A Discussion with IMLS Peer Reviewers and Project Participants on Planning Successful Proposals Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am Room: Vancouver Tim Carrigan, Christina DePaolo, Troy Livingston, Alexis Macklin, Rob Stein More... IMLS offers many funding opportunities for a variety of museums activities. Program staff will facilitate a conversation with museum professionals who are currently involved in IMLS funded projects and have served as peer reviewers, who will share practical examples from their own participation in the IMLS grant process, as well as provide an overview of their projects. This session will be beneficial for those considering applying for funding in the future as it will help demystify the application process and provide suggestions and pitfalls to avoid when planning a project. Full description Submitters: Name: Tim Carrigan Title: Program Specialist Organization: Program Specialist Bio: Tim Carrigan has been with the Institute of Museum and Library Services since 2007, where he currently serves as a program specialist in the Office of Museum Services for National Leadership Grants, Sparks! Ignition Grants, and the agency’s 21st Century Skills initiative. He earned his masters degree in arts management from the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, and his bachelor of science in interdisciplinary studies (marketing and art history) from Plymouth State University. Name: Christina DePaolo Title: Director of New Media Organization: Director of New Media Bio: TBD. Name: Troy Livingston Title: Vice President of Innovation and Learning Organization: Vice President of Innovation and Learning Bio: TBD. Name: Alexis Macklin Title: Director of Library & Archives Organization: Director of Library & Archives Bio: TBD. Name: Rob Stein Title: Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement Organization: Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement Bio: TBD.
8:00 am	The Great Debate 2011 Sat, 11/19/2011 - 8:00am - 9:30am Room: International North Susan Chun, Bruce wyman, Rob Stein, Roseanna Flouty, Mia Ridge More... This year’s closing plenary session will reprise last year’s popular “Great Debate” which brings together the museum community’s best and brightest—as well as some of its most charismatic and endearing personalities—to cross words over controversial subjects in the museum technology realm. This year, Rosanna Flouty, Mia Ridge, Rob Stein, and Bruce Wyman will consider the proposition, “There are too many museums.” As before, audience members will participate in the cross-examination—providing questions for extemporaneous responses by the contestants—and will select winners of the debate by show-of-hands voting at the conclusion of the session. Full description Submitters: Name: Susan Chun Title: Independent Researcher and Consultant Organization: Independent Researcher and Consultant Bio: Bio to be provided. Name: Bruce wyman Title: Director of Creative Development Organization: Director of Creative Development Bio: tbd Name: Rob Stein Title: Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement Organization: Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement Bio: Robert Stein is the Deputy Director for Research, Technology and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). In that role, Stein leads a wide range of activities for the museum including an extensive effort in media, web technology and software. Since 2006, he has played a significant role in shaping the way that the IMA has applied technology and media to the mission of the museum. In 2007, Stein and the IMA launched the IMA Dashboard, a pioneering effort that supports and encourages transparency among museums, and have since released the tool under an open source license for the benefit of other institutions. More recently, the IMA created and released TAP, a mobile tour platform to help museums author and distribute mobile content both in the galleries and online. In 2009, Stein and colleagues launched the streaming video website, ArtBabble.org. Awarded the 2009 American Association of Museums MUSE Award for Best Online Presence and the 2010 Best Overall Site award from the International Conference of Museums and the Web, ArtBabble brings together 28 prominent cultural organizations to create a true destination for art video online. Stein has also been instrumental in the success of the Steve.Museum social tagging project serving as both Project Director and Technical Lead on several of the project’s grant initiatives. He continues to advocate for the ways in which user generated data can be integrated with museum practice. As a result of the IMA’s leadership in technology, Stein and colleagues founded the IMA Lab in 2009 to offer software consulting services to the cultural sector seeking to increase the creation and adoption of open-source tools that benefit the community. Stein currently serves as Secretary on the Board of the Museum Computer Network and continues to be active in speaking and writing on topics related to museum transparency, technology and scholarly research. Name: Roseanna Flouty Title: tbd Organization: tbd Bio: tbd Name: Mia Ridge Title: Doctoral Student Organization: Doctoral Student Bio: Formerly Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, Mia Ridge is a cultural heritage technologist, and has worked internationally as an analyst, consultant and programmer. Mia's doctoral research at the Open University focuses on crowdsourcing the digitisation and geo-location of historical materials. Mia has written and presented on a range of topics including best practices for designing crowdsourcing games, and the possibilities of the participatory web for the cultural heritage sector. In 2011 she completed a Masters in Human-Centred Systems (City University) with a project investigating game design to crowdsource museum collections metadata for 'difficult' objects. Her key areas of interest are public participation in and access to digital heritage, human-computer interaction theories and user experience design. She tweets at http://twitter.com/mia_out and blogs at http://openobjects.blogspot.com/
10:00 am	ThatCamp Happy Hour Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm Room: tbd... Mary Ora Carlson, Amanda French More... Wrap up MCN 2011 by joining ThatCampers and MCN attendees for drinks and fun at a local watering hole! Full description Submitters: Name: Mary Ora Carlson Title: ThatCamp Local Coordinator Organization: ThatCamp Local Coordinator Bio: tbd Name: Amanda French Title: ThatCamp Coordinator Organization: ThatCamp Coordinator Bio: tbd

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