One of my colleagues at the Powerhouse, curator Erika Dicker, is writing a paper for Museums and the Web 2010 on the impact of some aspects of digital on day to day curatorial practice. Some F&N readers will know Erika is the editor of the Powerhouse’s Object of the Week blog, and her paper uses [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'
Downloading, mashing and remixing our collection metadata
November 3rd, 2009 4 Comments
As you may know, we released our collection metadata a little while back as a downloadable archive. It is linked from both the NSW Government as well as the Federal Government’s Data Catalogues.
This has enabled it to be used in the current Mashup Australia contest and related Hack Day events and for the forthcoming Apps4NSW [...]
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Another OPAC discovery – the Gambey dip circle (or the value of minimal tombstone data)
April 27th, 2009 3 Comments
New discoveries as a result of putting our incomplete collection database online are pretty common place – almost every week we are advised of corrections – but here’s another lovely story of an object whose provenance has been significantly enhanced by a member of the public. … If your organisation is still having doubts about the value of making available un-edited, un-verified, ageing tombstone data then it is worth showing examples like these.
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One year in the Commons on Flickr – statistics and . . . a book!
April 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Today we celebrate one year in the Commons on Flickr.
Since April 8 last year we’ve uploaded 1,171 photos (382 geotagged) from four different archival photographic collections. These have been viewed 777,466 times! For photographs that had been either hidden away on our website (the original 270 Tyrrell photographs on our website were viewed around [...]
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Sydney Observatory and astrometry bots
February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment
Over at the Sydney Observatory blog you can read about our astronomy curator’s experiments with the ‘astrotagging bot’ behind the Astrometry project and group on Flickr.
Today 20 February 2009 (Sydney time) the above image and five others were posted on the image sharing website Flickr here. Within a few minutes astrometry.net found the image and [...]
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Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination opens and is immediately on the web
December 3rd, 2008 3 Comments
Tonight we had the official public opening of Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination.
Already images and videos of the exhibition and the launch, taken by members of the public (”the people formerly known as the audience”) are starting to appear online across the social web.
Here’s photos on Flickr and no doubt tomorrow there will be [...]
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Brooklyn joins the Commons, we hit the 500 mark
May 30th, 2008 1 Comment
The Brooklyn Museum have just joined the Commons on Flickr and some of the material they’ve released is spectacular. Amongst the highlights are some amazing lantern slides of Egypt as well as colourised photographs from the Paris Exposition in 1900. Some of the colourised images are quite surreal.
Brookyln have also released some of them [...]
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Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and ‘architectures of participation’
May 27th, 2008 Comments Off
This is a long and sprawling post and comes off the back of two weeks of presentations around the country and a lot of discussions about the ‘future of museums’. Perhaps find a comfortable chair and a hot beverage.
Checking my RSS feeds this morning I came across this piece from the Boston Globe which looks [...]
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