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| Before 1:00 am |
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 1:00am - Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00pm
Room:
tbd...
Nettrice R. Gaskins
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 12:30am - 1:00am
Room:
International North
Paul Marty, Christina DePaolo
The day's sessions previewed and promoted by MCN presidents, present, past and future! Full description
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| 1:00 am |
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Brussels
Helen Petrie, Christopher Power, Marcus Weisen
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am
Room:
Cairo
Vivian Kung-Haga, Perian Sully, Maren Dougherty, Kristi Ehrig-Burgess, Rich Cherry
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
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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.
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 7:30am
Room:
International North
Rachel Coldicutt, Katy Beale
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 10:00am
Room:
Manila & Singapore
Amanda French
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am
Room:
Montreal
Christine Kuan, Jonathan Lill, Deborah Wythe, Geertje Jacobs, Nik Honeysett
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 1:00am - 2:30am
Room:
Vancouver
Andrew Pekarik, Ph.D., Zahava Doering, Barbara Mogel, James Schreiber, Ph.D.
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
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| 3:00 am |
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Cairo
Carolyn Sheffield, Danielle Castronovo, Rebecca Morin
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Hong Kong
James Quo-Ping Lin, Tien-Yu Hsu, Jessie Tsai, Christina DePaolo (Chair)
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Montreal
Rob Lancefield
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:20am
Room:
Montreal
Edward Bachta, Charles Moad, Kris Arnold
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
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Start time:
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:20am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:20am - 3:40am
Room:
Montreal
Robin Barre, David Hwang
Discover how The Field Museum created a new web strategy and followed it with a strong implementation process:
Technologies used: Solr, Drupal 7, Workbench, KE Software's EMu Full description
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Start time:
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:20am - 3:40am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:40am - 4:00am
Room:
Montreal
Susan Chun, Charlie Moad, Shawn Simister
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:40am - 4:00am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:20am
Room:
Montreal
Katie Filbert
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
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Start time:
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:20am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Vancouver
Diana Folsom
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:30am
Room:
Vancouver
Nettrice R. Gaskins
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
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Start time:
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:00am - 3:30am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:30am - 4:00am
Room:
Vancouver
Sarah Stierch
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
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Start time:
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:30am - 4:00am
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:30am
Room:
Vancouver
Ann Latham Cudworth
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:00am - 4:30am
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 9:30am
Room:
Brussels
Helen Petrie, Christopher Power
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am
Room:
Cairo
Paul Marty, William Hart-Davidson, Jim Ridolfo, Trilce Navarrete Hernández , Karen Weiss
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am
Room:
Hong Kong
Nancy Proctor, Spencer Hyman, Brian Fulkerson, Scott Sayre, Charlotte Sexton
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:
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am
Room:
Montreal
Jesse Heinzen, Andy Underwood-Bultmann
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
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Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:00am - 7:30am
Room:
Vancouver
Tim Carrigan, Christina DePaolo, Troy Livingston, Alexis Macklin, Rob Stein
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
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| 8:00 am |
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 8:00am - 9:30am
Room:
International North
Susan Chun, Bruce wyman, Rob Stein, Roseanna Flouty, Mia Ridge
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
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| 10:00 am |
Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Room:
tbd...
Mary Ora Carlson, Amanda French
Wrap up MCN 2011 by joining ThatCampers and MCN attendees for drinks and fun at a local watering hole! Full description
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