Category Archives: Museums

TourML & TAP for Managing and Deploying Tours

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Rebecca Mir

Hi everyone! Throughout the next week I’m going to be adding workshop presentations to our Google Collection and embedding the presentations here on the blog. Here’s the presentation for Leveraging TourML & TAP for managing and deploying Tours by Kyle … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Finding a Balance Between Museum Collections and Digital Enhancements

Posted on May 17, 2012 by george.sferra

Technology offers countless ways to enhance the visitor’s experience in museum galleries. As museums continue to search for ways to employ new technology, it is important to ensure that these technologies enhance rather than eclipse the collection objects on display. … Continue reading →

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Session Proposal: Web Content Management Systems and Museum Libraries

Posted on May 17, 2012 by jsarubbi

In this session, let’s explore web content management systems in meeting the needs of different types of museum libraries. For example, if a museum is using a content management system to archive their photographic collections, what are some criteria we … 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 – 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: History on the Hoof (Mobilizing History)

Posted on May 11, 2012 by steve.bull

While commercial applications of virtual reality explode on your mobile screen, the history potential of the smart phone valiantly struggles to catch up. The Digital Humanities team of Kathleen Hulser and Steve Bull have been experimenting with history on the … Continue reading →

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