Monthly Archives: May 2012

Session Proposal: Building iPad apps for galleries

Posted on May 16, 2012 by dougreside

Museums have been using touch screens for years, but the iPad gives us all a common and familiar platform for app design.  Let’s spend a couple hours comparing notes on iPad app authoring tools and possibly even build a basic … Continue reading →

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Documenting TCMNY

Posted on May 16, 2012 by elzi

There’s sure to be a lot of great conversations this weekend – so of course we want to document them – both for with those who can’t attend and our own future reference. In the spirit of the unconference, the … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: What API Ecosystem Do Museums Need?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by sredmond

The really successful apps and services we see today do one of three things: provide something fundamentally useful to other apps, collect together the already existing data and functions of other apps, or provide a central place for gathering all … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Museum GPS for Kids

Posted on May 16, 2012 by lindsay

Back in February, an advisory group of 5th graders from Queens proposed several ideas for museum trips of the future at the National Art Education Association Museum Education Division Preconference. As expected, some of their ideas were wonky, not quite … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Disruption in the Field

Posted on May 16, 2012 by cchelberg

What are museums, libraries, and archives hired to do? Does this matter, and how does it differ from what they offer? I’ve recently been learning about Clayton Christensen’s work on disruption theory and it’s provoked some interesting questions about what … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Geotagging Museum Objects

Posted on May 14, 2012 by raineytisdale

Projects like historypin that geotag historic photographs have gained a lot of traction over the past few years. But what about geotagging other types of museum content, specifically 3D objects? Museum of London has geotagged a portion of its collection … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: What a LOD! Basics for Museums and Libraries

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susan Chute

Fairly recently, METRO and NYPL sponsored a workshop on Linked Open Data, and also a lecture by Marcia Lei Zeng.  I attended the first session, which piqued my curiosity, but I need a review.  I also have some questions: How exactly does … Continue reading →

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Session proposal – On Representing Material Culture / ObjectVRs

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Arden Kirkland

I have a couple of different ideas which might be different sessions, might meld into other people’s session proposals, or might all belong in one session – you tell me! Basically, I have an ongoing concern that current representations of material culture … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Cameras in the Gallery

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Helen D. Wall

THATCamp notes taken during this Session can be found at ow.ly/b1czR Session Proposal Yielding to the omnipresent camera phone, most museums have had to change their no-photography policy (although still enforced in special exhibitions). Museums even encourage taking photos, featuring them … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Permanence and Digital Media Proposal Valerie Clark

Posted on May 12, 2012 by valerieaclarkny

Archives and special collections used to hold documents and books. Then archives expanded to maintain photographs, film, video and sound. These additional materials are less permanent than documents. After the 1990s or thereabouts, digital media enter the archive. If the … Continue reading →

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