News from National Digital Forum – New Zealand

This website would very much appreciate any input from people who attended the NDF2009 in New Zealand. Please send info at info@museummedia.nl. The National Digital Forum, in working towards collectively building New Zealand’s culture and heritage online, holds an annual conference. The conference is typically held in November and focuses on the digital world as [...]

What Really Makes the Most Interactive Museum in DC?

Very nice blog by Linda Norris: “And about those interactives. There is a ton no other word really of video in the museum. Good news, it was all working. Bad news–it felt a bit overwhelming and found a good deal of sound bleed from one to another. I found the interactions to be primarily one [...]

Wikipedia co-founder designs wiki style directory of educational videos for children

Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a new website designed to gather and organize educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. The site, www.watchknow.org, launched in October and currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history. The nonprofit site features new software, specially developed [...]

War Story – Imperial War Museum works with troops to record and share their frontline experiences

Servicemen and women are being encouraged to share their frontline experiences as part of War Story, a new initiative launched by the Imperial War Museum. War Story will allow active service personnel to record their personal stories as part of the Museum’s national collection relating to contemporary conflicts. Using innovative collecting techniques, across a range of digital [...]

Calling all curators: what does social media mean to you? Survey of curators by Erika Dicker

Powerhouse Museum curator Erika Dicker is preparing a paper to present at the Museums and the Web 2010 on the changing role of the curator. In a very Web 2.0 approach, Erika is crowd-sourcing the content of the presentation by asking the curatorial fraternity to complete an online survey. It will be interesting to hear [...]

A mysterious skull’s journey on 27 November from Georgia to The Netherlands

Professor David Lordkipanidze, Director General of the Georgia National Museum, is the only person entrusted to travel with the fossil. He will arrive at Schiphol airport on 27 November and travel in an armoured car, with police escort, to Naturalis. There, he will personally place the skull in the exhibition, after which the Treasury will [...]

Vision 2009: Sony Atracsys video

Interview with Sony’s Arnaud Destruel’s and Atracsys’ Gaetan Marti on a futuristic PC control interface based on vision cameras. Via Vision 2009 Sony Atracsys video.

OCLC Research to Host TAI CHI Omeka Webinar on 8 December

Omeka is a free and open source collections-based, Web-based platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators and cultural enthusiasts. Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards-based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts [...]

Rijksmuseum launches special programme for the deaf and hard of hearing

Exhibition Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)- The Little Ice Age Seventeenth-century sources suggest that Avercamp was probably deaf. For the Rijksmuseum this is an ideal moment to launch a programme for deaf and hearing-impaired visitors. The museum has worked closely with the Dutch signing centre (Nederlands Gebarencentrum) to develop special signs for museums and for art – [...]

Infofilm makes 2 animations for Observatoire de Paris

Animation 1: newborn star Animation 2: asteroid