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Session Proposal: Cameras in the Gallery
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
Categories: Archives, General, Museums, Proceedings of THATCamp, Session Proposals, Social Media
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Session Proposal: Permanence and Digital Media Proposal Valerie Clark
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
Categories: General, Proceedings of THATCamp, Session Proposals
Tags: cloud, emulation, harddrive, migration, obsolete
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And now a word from our sponsors. . .
Just wanted to take some time out to that a few of the organizations who are helping to make THATCamp Museums NYC possible. Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Since 2009 when it … Continue reading
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Session Proposal: Confronting Controversial Tour Groups
What are some things you can do, when you happen to hear a tour group leader spouting some blatantly inaccurate information at their participants? Whether it’s a creationist group visiting the evolution wing of a museum, or an Official museum … Continue reading
Categories: General, Session Proposals
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How-to Propose a Session
Realizing that some of you might not be familiar with WordPress Multi-Site so figured I would make a quick how-to to get you rolling. Here are the steps: 1. Go to the login page for the WordPress dashboard for THATCamp … Continue reading
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The Time is Now to Start Proposing Sessions
The great thing about THATCamps is that sessions and schedules are proposed by and agreed upon by the attendees. That means that what we talk about and what we do on Sunday will be up to all of you, the … Continue reading
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Workshop Information Available
I realized that I emailed all the registered attendants and Tweeted that the workshop information was available but did not post it to the THATCamp Museums NYC blog, so here it goes. Workshop topics, instructors,and scheduling was finalized last week … Continue reading
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THATCamp Museums NYC fills up in 8 days!!
It took just a little more than a week, but THATCamp Museums NYC filled up sometime early this morning. It has been really great to see such an instantaneous level of interest manifest itself and as I have tweeted the … Continue reading
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Registration is Officially Open
We opened registration up this afternoon for THATCamp Museums NYC, so now is your chance to join in the fun before we fill up. To register fill out the form on the Registration page and we will email you with … Continue reading
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THATCamp Museums NYC Registration will open April 2nd
We can now officially announce that registration for THATCamp Museums NYC will open on April 2nd. We will be accepting registrants on a first come first serve basis and have room for 90 participants, so sign up as soon as … Continue reading
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