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Final Program April 9-12, 2008, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure

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Museums and the Web 2008Thanks and Congratulations

CollaboratorsandSponsors........................................................................................................................... 2 ScholarshipWinners.......................................................................................................................................... 2 ProgramCommittee......................................................................................................................................... 3

Tuesday April 8, 2008

Pre-conferenceTours........................................................................................................................................ 4 FullDayWorkshops.......................................................................................................................................... 4

Wednesday April 9, 2008

Workshops.......................................................................................................................................................... 5 WelcomeReception:McCordMuseumofCanadianHistory................................................................. 7

Thursday April 10, 2008

OpeningPlenary................................................................................................................................................. 8 MorningSessions............................................................................................................................................... 8 AfternoonSessions.......................................................................................................................................... �0 Exhibitors’Reception:HiltonBonaventure................................................................................................ �3

Friday April 11, 2008

Exhibits............................................................................................................................................................... �5 ExhibitHallMap............................................................................................................................................... 22 BirdsofaFeatherBreakfast.......................................................................................................................... 24 UsabilityLabs.................................................................................................................................................... 24 CritRooms........................................................................................................................................................ 25 Interactions:MiniWorkshopsandProfessionalForums...................................................................24-27 BestoftheWebAwards................................................................................................................................. 28 ConferenceReception:Muséed’artcontemporaindeMontréal......................................................... 28

Saturday April 12, 2008

DemonstrationSessions�and2Map......................................................................................................... 29 DemonstrationSessions�and2............................................................................................................30-33 MorningSessions............................................................................................................................................. 35 AfternoonSessions.......................................................................................................................................... 37 ClosingPlenary................................................................................................................................................. 38 MW2009CallforParticipation.................................................................................................................... 39

Schedule Overview..............................................................................................................................20-2� Hotel Map....................................................................................................................................................... 40

ProducedbyArchives & Museum Informatics

ConferenceCo-ChairsDavidBearmanandJenniferTrant

Withourthankstothestudentvolunteers,ledbyJessicaKoepfler.

Welcome

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Professional Scholarships

New and innovative accomplishments on theWebcomefromallkindsoforganizationsthroughouttheworld.Archives&MuseumInformaticsrecognizesthatmanyindividualswouldbeunabletoattendMW2008withoutfinancialassistance.Competitivescholarships,covering travel and hotel expenses, conferenceregistrationandafulldayofworkshops,areawardedbyArchives&Museum Informatics.Congratulationstothewinnersofthe2008ProfessionalScholarships:

Inna Kizhner, ProgramCoordinator,DepartmentofInformationResources,SiberianFederalUniversityLawrence Monda, SeniorProgramer/Analyst,Na-tionalMuseumsofKenya

Canadian Professional Scholarships

With assistance from the Department of CanadianHeritage, MW2008 is pleased to provide fullregistration scholarships to Canadian museum andarchivesprofessionals.Congratulationsto:

Barbara Bélanger, Conservatrice/Webmestre,MuséeArmand-Frappier,Laval,QuébecJessie Bonisteel, Webmaster,Canada’sSportsHallofFame,Toronto,OntarioJo Jennings, CommunicationsCoordinator,LondonRe-gionalChildren’sMuseum,London,OntarioJanine Johnston, Archivist,JewishMuseumandArchivesofBritishColumbia,Vancouver,BritishColumbiaLeanne Templeton, ExecutiveDirector,CanadianPetro-leumDiscoveryCentre,Devon,AlbertaBruce Thomson, Registrar&ProjectManager,NewBrunswickMuseum,SaintJohn,NewBrunswickAnine Vonkeman, Marketing/CommunicationsOfficer,GaltMuseum&Archives,Lethbridge,Alberta

AgroupofQuébecprofessionalswasalsoselectedinconjunction with the Societé des musées québecoisfor scholarships supported by the Department ofCanadianHeritage.Congratulationsto:

Denis Chabot, MuséeduskidesLaurentides,Saint-SauveurMarie-Claude Larouche, MuséeMcCord,MontréalValérie Sirard, Muséed’artcontemporaindeMontréalLouise Grenier, Centred’expoisition,MontréalManon Roc, MaisonSt-Gabriel,MontréalLinda Lapointe, Sociétédesmuséesquébécois,Montréal

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Thanks To Our Collaborators!

Many individuals and organizations help Archives& Museum Informatics put together MW2008.WeappreciatethecontributionsoftheMW2008ProgramCommittee, the Local Arrangements Committee,the Best of theWeb Judges and our CollaboratingOrganizations.Wecouldn’tdoitwithoutyou!

DavidBearmanandJenniferTrantArchives&MuseumInformaticsMW2008ConferenceCo-Chairs

Collaborating Organizations

MW2008 was presented in conjunction with theDepartment of Canadian Heritage through theCanadianHeritageInformationNetwork(CHIN)andCanadianCultureOnline(CCO).

Sponsors

TheMW2008conferenceissponsoredbyInterwovenandInterflow.

TheWelcomeReceptionattheMcCordMuseumissponsoredbyGallerySystems.

TheBirds-of-a-FeatherBreakfastissponsoredbyJohnsHopkinsUniversity,MuseumStudiesProgram.

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ThenumerousmuseumsandresearchinstitutionsinOttawaandMontréalforhosting“behindthescenes”pre-conferencetoursonApril8,2008.

TheMcCordMuseumforhostingourWelcomeReceptiononWednesday,April9,2008.

TheMuséed’artcontemporaindeMontréalforhostingtheConferenceReceptiononFriday,April��,2008.

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Would you like to be involved with MW2009?

Volunteer on your Evaluation Form or email [email protected]

MW2008 Program Committee

Conference Co-Chairs: David BearmanandJennifer Trant,Archives&MuseumInformatics•

Paul Marty, AssistantProfessor,CollegeofInformation,FloridaStateUniversity,USADana Mitroff Silvers,HeadofOnlineServices,SanFranciscoMuseumofModernArt,USAKris Morrissey, MuseologyProgramDirector,UniversityofWashington,USALiddy Nevile, AdjunctAssociateProfessor,ComputerScienceandComputerEngineering,LaTrobeUniversity,AustraliaRoss Parry, LecturerinMuseumsandNewMedia,DepartmentofMuseumStudies,UniversityofLeicester,UnitedKingdomJon Pratty, Editor,Culture24,UnitedKingdomDarren Peacock, SchoolofManagement,UniversityofSouthAustralia,AustraliaJemima Rellie, AssistantDirector,GettyConser-vationInstitute,USAEd Rodley, ContentDeveloper,Research,Development&Production,MuseumofScience,Boston,USARob Stein, CIO,IndianapolisMuseumofArt,USAChristopher J. Terry,President&CEO,CanadaScienceandTechnologyMuseumCorporation,CanadaKevin von Appen,AssociateDirector,DailyExperi-enceOperations,OntarioScienceCentre,CanadaBruce Wyman, DirectorofTechnology,DenverArtMuseum,USA

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Committees

Committee MembersPeter Bruce, DirectorGeneral,InformationTechnologyBranch,LibraryandArchivesofCanada,CanadaSebastian Chan, ManagerWebServices,PowerhouseMuseum,AustraliaRich Cherry, DirectorofOperations,SkirballCulturalCenter,USACostis Dallas, LecturerinCulturalHeritageManagementandAdvancedTechnologies,Depart-mentofCommunication,MediaandCulture,PanteionUniversityMarthe de Vet,HeadofEducationandPublicServices,VanGoghMuseum,TheNetherlandsJim Devine, HeadofMultimedia,HunterianMuseumandArtGallery,UniversityofGlasgow,ScotlandGail Durbin, HeadofV&AOnLine,Victoria&AlbertMuseum,UnitedKingdomFranca Garzotto, AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofElectronicsandInformation,PolitecnicodiMilano,ItalyStefan Göbel, DigitalStorytelling,Head,ZGDVDarmstadte.V.,GermanySusan Hazan, CuratorofNewMedia,IsraelMuseum,Jerusalem,IsraelMichael Jenkins, GeneralManager,CollectionsInformationPlanning,OfficeoftheDirector,TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,USABrian Kelly, UKWebFocus,UKOLN,UniversityofBath,UnitedKingdom

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Céline Arseneault, MontréalBotanicalGardensEric Bilodeau, Muséed’artcontemporaindeMontréalSteffen Boddeker, CanadianCentreforArchitectureChris Hand, Zeke’sGalleryCarol Pauzé, MontréalScienceMuseumNicole Vallières, McCordMuseumAnne-Marie Zeppetelli, Muséed’artcontemporaindeMontréal

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Workshops

7:30am–7:30pm

La Verrièrearriveatleast

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Registration

Pre-Conference Tours – Pre-Registration Required.

Ottawa Tours: “Science” and “Art and History”OnecoachwilltakebothtourgroupstoOttawa.The“Science”tourgroupwillvisittheNaturalHistoryMuseum, theMuseumof Science andTechnology and theNationalResearchCouncilInstitute for InformationTechnologyGroup.The“ArtandHistory”tourgroupwillseebehindthescenesattheCanadianMuseumofCivilization,theLibraryandArchivesCanadaPreservationfacility,andtheNationalGalleryofCanada.

Montréal TourOnecoachwilltakethegrouptouringMontréalinstitutionstotheMcCordMuseum,theScienceCentreandtheCanadianCentreforArchitecture.

Full Day Workshops

Second Life LaboratoryPaul Doherty and Rob Rothfarb, Exploratorium, USA

LABSLisafulldayworkshoponSecondLifedesignedforattendeeswhoarealreadyfamiliarwiththeSLenvironmentandareplanningtoimplementmuseumactivitiesthere.ItwillexaminesomegoodandbadmuseumimplementationsandexplorethemethodsmuseumscanexploittomakeSecondLifeaviableextensionoftheirprogramming.

Weaving a Web of Data: Resource-Oriented Approaches to Managing Museum DataEric Miller and Brian Sletten, Zepheira, USA

Thistutorialwilldemonstratehowtousepersistent,resolvablenames(URIs)fortextualcontentandcollectionmetadatainaresource-orientedenvironment.WewillfocusontheW3CSemanticWebstandardsandshowhowtheycanbeusedtounifydata,documentsandservices.WewilladditionallydemonstratesomenewWeb-basedfrontendinterfaceswhichhidethiscomplexityandempowertheend-user.Thebenefitsofthesecombinedapproachesincludeunifiedinformationspaces,newcapabilitiesfordataconnectionandreuse,moreeffectivecollaboration,relationshipdiscoveryandaflexibleinfrastructurethatwillworkforyourorganization,notagainstit.

9:30am–5:30pm

8:30am–5:00pmCanadian Centre

for ArchitectureBus leaves at 8:30 am

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9:00am–5:00pmLachine

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Registration

Full Day Workshops

Content Management: Systems and StrategiesDarren Peacock, University of South Australia, Australia

Thisone-dayworkshopgivesparticipantsanindepthintroductiontotheissuesandtechnologiesthat underpin content management of museumWeb sites. It offers a structured method fortackling content management issues forWeb sites large and small, cutting through the oftenconfusingjungleofjargonandtechnospeak.

Game-Based Learning: Design Principles in PracticeSteven Allison-Bunnell and David Schaller, eduweb, USA

Thepastfewyearshaveseenasurgeofinterestindigitallearninggames,inspiredbyabroadarrayofresearchemphasizingtheeffectivenessofproblem-based,anchoredinstruction.These,inturn,arebasedontheinsightthatalllearningissituatedindirectexperienceandconcretecontexts.Gamesarebydefinitionexperientialandemployrichcontextsfortheplayertoexplore.CurrentsoftwarepackagesrangingfromFlashtoUnitynowoffermuseumsthetoolstodesigngamesthatrecreatetherulesofnatureandsocietyinarich,contextualizedworldforplayerstoexplore.

Morning Workshops

Advanced Web Development: Software strategies for on-line applications Rob Stein, Charles Moad, and Edward Bachta, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

LookingtotakeyourWebdevelopmentskillstothenextlevel?Thisworkshopwillgiveattendeesadetailed lookat theunderlyingWeb technologies anddesign strategies that canbeused todrivedynamicand innovativeWebexperiences.Wewillexamineavarietyoftechnologiesanddevelopment techniques with an emphasis on the design and implementation of your ownapplications.Learnwhatyouneedtoknowtotakeadvantageofthisquicklydevelopingfield.

Using Blogs Effectively Within Your OrganisationMike Ellis, Eduserv, United Kingdom and Brian Kelly, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Thisworkshopwillofferrealuserexperienceswith issuesofusingblogsandblogging inyourmuseum.Thesessionwillprovideanupdateonblogfundamentals,theblogservices,authoringtoolsandthediversityofwaysinwhichblogcontentmaybeviewed,andexploreapproachestotheestablishmentofabloggingservice,suchasinstallationofin-houseblogsoftwareoruseofthirdpartybloggingservices.

Keeping the Focus on Learning in e-LearningRose Cardiff, Tate, and Carolyn Royston, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom

Thishalf-dayworkshopwill focusonhowtodevelopeffectiveon-line learningresources. It isaimedateducatorsandcontentproducersandwillprovidepracticalguidanceonhowtodevelope-Learningresourcesusingmuseumcollections.Theemphasisoftheworkshopwillbeonhowtodefine the learningobjectives for youron-line resource, andhow technology canbeusedeffectivelytoachievethoseaims.

9:00am–5:30pmLachine

9:00am–5:30pmLasalle

9:00am–�2:30pmMont Royal

9:00am–�2:30pmHampstead

9:00am–�2:30pmCôte St. Luc

8:00am–5:30pmbottom of Escalators

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Power to the Pod People: Design Your Own PodcastStephanie Pau, Tim Svenonius, and Tana Johnson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

PowertothePodPeoplewillencompassallaspectsofthepodcastingprocess:scripting,digitalrecording, downloading audio, audio editing, publishing, and loading on to the iPod via iTunes.Theworkshopwillbeginwithabriefoverviewofthetechnologyrequiredtoproduceapodcast,andwillincludehandoutsexplainingRSSfeeds,contentaggregators,digitalaudioformatting,andon-lineresources.Participantswillworkinsmallgroupstomaketheirownpodcastsbasedonobjectsandtextsbroughtbytheinstructors.

On-line Video EditingJim Spadaccini, Ideum, USA

Inthishalfdayseminar,we’lllookatJumpCut,EyeSpot,JayCut,Flektor,GorillaSpot,andothersandseehowtheworldofon-linevideowillneverbethesame.Wewillexaminethecoretechnologies:Flash,mediaserving, framerendering,andhowunderstandhowall thesepieceswork.Wewilltestdrivethesetechnologiestogether,makemovies,anddiscussthetechnologyanddesignissuespresented.

Using Web Services for Terminology ControlBert Degenhart Drenth, ADLIB Information Systems, The Netherlands

Vocabularycontrolhasalwaysbeenanimportantissueinthedomainofmuseumdocumentation.Traditionallythesauriwereavailabletousersintwodistinctforms:asacompletedownload,oras aWeb browser accessible version. Both have serious drawbacks: a downloaded version isimmediately out-of-date andmaintenance is hard.AWeb browser-based thesaurus is hard tointegrate in thirdparty applications.Web servicesprovide a solution for this problem: anAPImakesiteasytointegrateon-linethesauriintoavarietyofapplications.ThisworkshopexplainsthetheorybehindWebservices,usingSOAPcall-inapplications,andshowssomereal-lifeexamplesofintegrationofon-linethesauri(e.g.museumsvok.de)

LunchAllworkshopparticipants,fromthemorning,afternoonorfulldayworkshops,areinvitedtoaninformallunch.

Afternoon Workshops

Everything RSSJim Spadaccini, Ideum, USA

Inthishalf-dayworkshop,wewillmovebeyondthebasicsofWebfeedsandtakeacloselookatthenextgenerationofRSStools.WewillexaminexFruits,AideRSS,FeedBlendr,Runstream,andRSSMixeranddiscussthefutureofRSStechnology.Inaddition,wewilltakeabehind-the-scenes lookat thecoretechnologiesbehindtheRSSMixerapplication,whichhandles tensofthousandsoffeedsandmillionsofposts.Technologiessuchasfeedaggregation,blogs,podcasts,mobileformattedpages,widgets,rich-mediaembeds,andotherwillbeexamined.Wewillbuildourownfeeds,mixthem,filterthem,widgetizethem,andthroughthatprocessbetterunderstandhowRSScanbeusedtoconnecttoourWebvisitors.Lastly,wewilldiscusstheuseofWebfeedsinthemuseumworld,explorehowtheyareused,anddiscusshowthesetechnologiescouldbebetterutilizedbyourcommunity.

E-mail and Speaker Prep

�:30pm–5:30pmSt. Michel

9:00am–�2:30pmVerdun

9:00am–�2:30pmSt. Leonard

9:00am–�2:30pmSt. Pierre

Coffee Break�0:30am–��:00amPromenade

�2:30pm–2:00pmLa Portage

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2:00pm–5:30pm Mont Royal

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Welcome Reception

McCord Museum of Canadian HistoryWednesday, April 9, 20086:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Sponsored by Gallery Systems

Exhibitors’ Reception

Exhibit Hall, Hilton BonaventureThursday, April 10, 20085:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Conference Reception

Musée d’art contemporain de MontréalFriday, April 11, 20087:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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∫Mashing It Up: Why and HowMike Ellis, Eduserv, United Kingdom

Distributedcomputing–wheredataisconsumedfromexternalWebsites,sometimes‘mashed’ordisplayed insomeotherwayonyourownsite–hasbecomeapowerfulwayofprovidingfunctionalityandrequireslittleornofinancialoutlayortechnicalunderstanding.Thisworkshopwilllookatsomeofthedatasourcesandservicesavailabletomuseumsandexaminesomeofthewaysthattheycanbecombinedorotherwiseusedonyoursite.Italsolooksatthebenefitsandpotentialpitfallsofworkinginthisway.

Planning Social Media In MuseumsSebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum, and Angelina Russo, Swinburne University, Australia

This half-day workshop will explore the use of social media (blogs, wikis, digital stories etc.)tosupportmuseumcommunication.TheworkshopwilladdresstherangeofWeb-basedsocialmediaavailabletomuseums;theissuesthatariseinplanningforsuchapplications;andhowtoanticipate/addresssuchissues.

Using steve.museumWilly Lee, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Charles Moad, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

Thishalf-dayworkshopwillintroducethesteve.museumtaggerandshowpracticalwaysofusingthetaggerinyourmuseumWebsite.Thesteve.museumteamisagroupofmuseumtechnologistsbuildingthisapplicationuniquelyforthemuseumcommunity.Assuch,wearecontinuallyaddingfeatures fordata analysis, termexpansion, andotheruseful functions.By sharing in the steve.museumplatform,yourinstitutioncaneasilydownloadandinstalltheseextensionsastheyaredeveloped.Byworkingwiththesteve.museumteam,youcanalsocontributeyourworkbacktothecommunityatlarge.

Using the Microsoft Virtual Earth API to provide Geographical Access John O’Brien, Soul Solutions, Australia

Wewillexploretheprocessofgeo-codingaphysicallocationintoaLatitudeandLongitudeco-ordinateforplottingonthemap;reviewthetechnologiesavailableandtheirlimitations;evaluatetheeffortrequireforyourcollection;lookatwhatprovidesaneffectivevisualspatialsearchandseehowtraditionalfilterslikedate-rangesandcategoriesareenhancedwithinthisinterface.WewillexplorethecomplexityandperformanceissuesoflargecollectionsplottedonaWeb-basedmap.FinallywewillprovideyouwiththetoolsandknowledgeneededtointegratethistechnologyintoyourWebsite.

Coffee Break

2:00pm–5:30pmHampstead

2:00pm–5:30pmCôte St. Luc

2:00pm–5:30pmVerdun

2:00pm–5:30pmSt. Pierre

3:30pm–4:00pmPromenade

5:30pm–7:00pmBuses leave Hotel for Welcome Reception

Register at the Hilton before going to the McCord. No Admittance without a ticket.

7:30pm–8:30pmBuses return to Hotel from Welcome Reception

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Registration

Opening PlenaryChair:DavidBearman,Archives&MuseumInformatics

Hands On the InternetMichael Geist, University of Ottawa, Canada

WhilemanyInternetadvocateshavelongsupportedahands-offgovernmentandpolicyapproachto the Internet, this talkwillmake the case for a hands-on approach, citing the role that themuseum and archival communities should play in contentious issues such as digital copyright,networkneutrality,andaccesstopublicdomainworks.

Coffee Break

Theoretical FrameworksChair:DarrenPeacock,UniversityofSouthAustralia,Australia

Object-centred Democracies: Contradictions, challenges and opportunitiesFiona Cameron, University of Western Sydney, Australia

ThispaperdiscussesconceptualworkundertakenfortheAustralianResearchCouncilresearchprojectReconceptualisingHeritageCollectionswiththeCentreforCulturalResearch,UniversityofWestern Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum. It offers some possible solutions on howmuseumsandcollectionsmightoperateascomplexsystemsaccordingtoLatour’s(2005)ideaofobject-orientateddemocracies.HereIdrawontheresultsofqualitativeresearch,conversationsand workshops with curators, and globally networked communities presenting models fortransdisciplinaryandsociallyembeddedpracticesincollectionsdocumentation.

Who Has The Responsibility For Saying What We See? Mashing up museum and visitor voices, on-site and on-line Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

What is the Museum’s role in giving voice to the objects it presents?A recent exhibition ofScandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson provided an opportunity to test one institution’s internaltolerance for multi-vocal popular response. Eliasson explicitly states that his immersiveenvironmentsareset-upsforengagement,andthattheviewercompletesthework.Withthatinmind,theSFMOMAInteractiveEducationalTechnologies(IET)teamstoppedshortofdescribingindividualworksindetail.Thatrolewaslefttothevisitors,eachofwhom,itwastheorized,wouldhaveapersonalexperienceofthevariousworksintheshow.

The API as CuratorAaron Straup Cope, Flickr, USA

Wearestillalongwayfromfindingthecraftincomputers–whichisn’ttosaythatweallneedtolearnprogramming–onlythatweshouldaffordthepracticemoreattentioninordertogiveartiststhetoolstoexploreandshapeanetworkedworldandtobendthosetoolsintonewerones justasartistsbegandoingwithphotographytwohundredyearsago.Byencouragingthesame latitude of understanding of the gory details that govern the Internet, we explode thebottleneckthathasdistortedavasthorizonofcreation,collaborationand,aboveall,mystery.

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Engaging Museum AudiencesChair:GailDurbin,Victoria&AlbertMuseum,UnitedKingdom

Where Do We Go From Here? Continuing with Web 2.0Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, USA

Our2008paperpicksupwhereweleftofflastyearbydetailingsomeoftheprojects,developments,andrealizationswe’vemadeoverthepastyear–includingblogging,electroniccommentbooks,aFacebookapplication,aYouTube-basedvideocompetition,andanexperimentwithTwitter–inourongoingefforttolinkWebandgalleryinteraction,bothphysicallyandvirtually.

Ladders Of Participation, Social Media And Museum AudiencesLynda Kelly, Australian Museum and Angelina Russo, Swinburne University, Australia

GivenincreasingaccesstotheInternetandtheriseofsocialnetworking,itisbecomingimperativeformuseums to understandnotonlywhouses the Internet, but also how andwhy they areusing it. Previouswaysof classifyingusers typicallyuseddemographicdataor analysed searchand visitingpatterns.However, thesemethodsoften lack thedepthof informationneeded tounderstandwhypeopleengageincertainbehaviours.Thispaperwillexplorerecentexamplesoftypesofon-lineparticipationandclassifications,reportingonthreerecentstudiesundertakenattheAustralianMuseum.

Social Presence: New value for networked museum audiencesBrian Dawson, Gabrielle Trépanier, Fraser McDonald, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Canada

Thispaperexaminessocialnetworkingsitesasadistinct,strategicpointofpresenceformuseums.Itappliestwotheoreticalmodels–the“InnovationRadar”andgenreanalysis–tohelpanalyzethe natureof theopportunities for innovation, and todevelop a better understandingof thedistinctivecharacteristicsofalternatecommunicationchannels.Itlookscloselyatthenewvaluethatcanbegeneratedfromsuchexperiments,suchasaudienceengagementandnewavenuesforresearch.Itexploresthechallengesofmeasuringsuccesswithemergingmedia,andshowshoworganizationalobjectivesandmeasurescanaffectthedecisionsinstitutionsmakeinparticipatinginon-linesocialnetworks.

PersonalizationChair:PaulMarty,FloridaStateUniversity,USA

An Interactive And Customizable Learning Environment For Various Users Needs:Danish German Virtual Museum ProjectJonas Granlie, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Kay Macquarrie, University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany

VirtualMuseumsfacediversetargetgroups,reaching fromyoungtoold,withvarying Internetliteracy levelsand learningstyles.Howdoesoneserve thesediverseneedsefficientlyononeplatform?Howcanweimplementanaccessiblelearningenvironmentwhichcanbecustomisedtodifferentlearningstyles?Theapproachchoseninthisprojectistoprovidetwobasicfeatures:targetgroupprofilesandusercustomization.TargetgroupprofilesindicatethedifferentaimsthatvarioususershavewhenaccessingtheWebsite.Inaddition,usersthemselvesareabletotailorthesiteaccordingtopersonallearningstylesandneeds:visuallyortextuallyorientedusersareabletoconfiguretheirviewoftheMuseumwithabiastowardstextualormultimediamaterial.

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Building an Adaptive Museum Gallery in Second LifeIon Androutsopoulos and George Karakatsiotis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Amy Isard, and Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Wedescribeinitialworkonbuilding,withinSecondLife,avirtualgallerywhichcanautomaticallytailor itself to individual visitors, responding to their abilities, interests,preferencesorhistoryofinteraction.Thedescriptionofanobjectinthevirtualworldcanbepersonalisedtosuitthebeginnerortheexpert,varyinghowitissaid–thechoiceoflanguage(suchasEnglishorGreek),the words, or the complexity of sentences, as well as what is said – by taking into accountwhatelsehasbeenseenordescribedalready.Theguidedeliveringthedescriptionscanremaindisembodied,orbeembodiedasaroboticavatar.

Be Your Own Curator with the CHIP Tour WizardLora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Yiwen Wang, Natalia Stash, Yuri Schuurmans, and Rody Sambeek, Eindhoven University of Technology; Lloyd Rutledge, Telematica Institute; and Peter Gorgels, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Web2.0enablesincreasedaccesstomuseumdigitalcollections.Moreandmore,userswillspendtimepreparingtheirvisitstomuseumsandreflectingonthemafterthevisits.Inthiscontext,theCHIP(CulturalHeritageInformationPersonalization)projectofferstoolstotheuserstobetheirowncurators;e.g.forplanningapersonalizedmuseumtour,discoveringinterestingartworkstheywanttoseeina‘virtual’ora‘real’tour,andquicklyfindingtheirwayinthemuseum.InthispaperwepresentthenewadditionstotheCHIPtoolstotargettheabovefunctionality–aWeb-basedTourPreparationWizardandanexportofapersonalizedtourtoaninteractiveMobileGuideusedinthephysicalmuseumspace.Inaddition,theuserinteractionsduringarealmuseumvisitarestoredandsynchronizedwiththeusermodel,whichismaintainedatthemuseumWebsite.

What to do with New Media Art?Chair:RichCherry,SkirballCulturalCenter,USA

New Media Art: New Challenges for museums in the 21st centuryAnne Marie Zeppetelli, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Richard Gagnier and Elaine Tolmatch, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and Madeleine Lafaille, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada

Newchallengesconcerningtheacquisition,exhibitionandpreservationofmediaartinmuseumcollectionshaverecentlysurfaced.ThesechallengeshavegivenrisetoanimportantstudyledbytheDOCAMResearchAlliance(DocumentationandConservationoftheMediaArtsHeritage).This paper presents a number of DOCAM case study findings on new media works by theresearchteamsattheMuséed’artcontemporaindeMontréalandtheMontrealMuseumofFineArts.

Ethnographic Methods and New Media PreservationPiotr Adamczyk, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA

Thispaperexploreshowethnographictechniques,increasinglyusedinstudiesofhuman-computerinteraction, can be applied in the preservation of new media art. Special attention is paid toexamplesofnewmediathatrequireahighdegreeofaudienceparticipation.



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Aggregating Museum Data: Use IssuesChair:EricMiller,Zepheira,USA

Exploring Museum Collections On-line: The Quantitative MethodFrankie Roberto, Science Museum, United Kingdom

ThepapersetsouttoanswerhowonemightbuildaWebsitetorepresentthecollectionsofmuseumsasawholebywayoforiginalresearchandexperimentationonrealdatasetsofmuseumobjects,obtainedfromanumberofUKmuseumsbywayofaFreedomofInformationrequest.Thesedatasourcesareroughlyhewntogether–atechnicalandsemanticchallengethat’sbrieflyexplained–toformasingle,enormousdatabase.TheresultisaprototypeWebsiteemployinga fresh approach to viewing museum collections on-line, eschewing details in favour of high-leveloverviewsandvisualisations,incorporatinguserannotationsandrevealinginsightsintothehistoriesofmuseumcollecting.

Uniting The Shanty Towns: Data Combining Across Multiple InstitutionsSebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum, Australia

Thispaperreportsontheearlyphasesofapilotprojectwhichismashingupdatasetsfromacrossseveralmuseumswithdatafromothergovernmentdepartments.Canweliberatemuseumdataandcombineitwithotherliveexternaldatasetstocreatenewvalueanduse?Ifso,whatkindsofmeaningcanwehelppeoplemake?Whatdoweneedtodototheunderlyingmuseumdata?Whatarethetechnologiesthatallowustoaggregatethisdatalongafteritwascreatedforotherpurposes?

Mobile ComputingChair:KarenElinich,TheFranklinInstituteScienceMuseum,USA

On-line heritage presentation in FlandersJoke Beyl and Gert Nulens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bart De Nil, FARO, Flemish Institute for Cultural Heritage, Belgium

This paper aims at unveiling theneeds and viewsof Flemishheritage experts concerning thetwomajorcomponentsoftheHeritage2.0researchproject:ontheonehand,thecreationofacommunicationlayerontopofexistingdatabases,andontheotherhand,thepresentationofheritagebymeansofmobiletechnologies(forexample,aPDA).SincemobileheritagepresentationisstillinitsinfancyinFlanders,wedecidedtoextendthesefocusgroupconversationsbymeansofsomein-depthinterviewswithinternationalexperts.Weaskedthemtoreflectupon5centralissues regarding mobile heritage presentation. In this paper we highlight some of the mostinterestingconclusions.

Hand-Held Heritage: the development of mobile applications by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of WalesTom Pert, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, United Kingdom

What sets themobile applications developedby theRCAHMWapart from thoseoffered byother institutions in theUK is the fact that development has been conducted completely in-house,usingfreeorinexpensivesoftware.Fromtheoutsetthisprojectadoptedamulti-platformapproach,usingavarietyofdigitalformatsfordeploymenttoarangeofdevices;MP3audiotoursforMP3players,audio-visualtoursfordeviceswithvideoplayers,andGPS-enabledapplicationsthatdelivermulti-mediacontent

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Beyond Single RepositoriesChair:RossParry,UniversityofLeicester,UnitedKingdom

Collaboratorium: Shared Exhibits, Programs, and Educational Resources through the InternetPeter Neill and Amelia Poole, World Ocean Observatory, USA

WewillpresentseveralW2Oservicesofferinganew,costeffectivemodelforthecreationanddistributionofmuseumprograms.Exhibitsarecuratedandvettedbymuseumprofessionalsandsubjectexperts.Programsaredesignedtomakeconnectionsbetweenorganizationsbasedontheirover-lappinginterestsandcollectionsandtomotivatecollaborativedevelopment,planningandmarketingfornewprojectsfornewaudiences.Eventsconnectspecificmuseum-generatedparticipantswithspecificpresenters,frequentlyinthefieldorwithcollectionstohand,toenablecommunicationotherwiseprecludedbybudgetandavailability.

Learning from the People: Traditional Knowledge and Educational StandardsDaniel Elias and James Forrest, Peabody Essex Museum, USA

ECHO’smostrecentWebprojectisLearningfromthePeople,asub-siteonWGBH’ssiteTeachers’Domain.ItdrawsonbothNativeand‘standard’(Euro-American)sourcestoexaminetwothemes:traditionalstorytellingintheNativeworld,andArcticclimatechange.Therawmaterialswerethediversesourcesofinformationandexperienceofoursixmemberinstitutions:abewilderingarraywidelyvarying inquality,quantityandmedium,with limitedcatalogingor indexing.Drawingonthese,wecreatedvideoandinteractiveresources,backgroundessaysanddiscussionquestionsthatsupportedlessonplanscorrelatedtostateandnationaleducationalstandards.

User-Generated ContentChair:BruceWyman,DenverArtMuseum,USA

The Art of Storytelling: Enriching art museum exhibits and education through visitor narrativesMatthew Fisher and Alexandra Sastre, Night Kitchen Interactive, and Beth Twiss-Garrity, The Univer-sity of the Arts, USA

Wewillexploreavarietyofstorytellingprograms–fromlarger-scaleliteracyprogrampartnershipsbetweenpublicschoolsystemsandprominentartmuseums,tosmaller,moreunconventionalyettechnologically-innovativeprogramsataseriesofothermuseums.Whilesomeoftheseprogramsaremoreconventionalinnature,someemploybothon-lineandhandheldtechnologiestofacilitatevisitorstorytelling,enrichingandextendingmuseumexperiences.Byallowingvisitorstocreateandsharetheirownstoriesalongsidetheauthoritativemuseumnarrative,visitorsmaycomeawaywithamorevibrant,engagingandinspiredexperience.

The Living Museum: Supporting the creation of quality user-generated contentAllison Farber and Paul Radensky, Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, USA

TheLivingMuseum®isanon-lineapplicationandcurriculumthatenablesstudentsandteachersin Jewish schools to create virtual exhibitions of artifacts that represent their individual andcollective Jewish heritage.This paper presents the Living Museum’s on-line protocols and theinstructional module we built to support the creation of quality exhibitions.We discuss howdemonstrating high expectations, sharing our educational goals and providing technical andcurricularresourcesfacilitatethecreationofqualityuser-generatedcontentandcanbeusedasamodelforotherswhencreatingWebsitesthathostuser-generatedcontent.

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Getting ‘In Your Face’: Strategies for encouraging creativity, engagement and investment when the museum is offlineIan Rubenzahl, Colin Wiginton and Gillian McIntyre, Art Gallery of Ontario; and Martin Lajoie, Portrait Gallery of Canada, Canada

In2007theArtGalleryofOntariocloseditsdoorstemporarilytocompletetherenovationandinstallationofanewFrankGehry-designedfacility.Inthemonthsleadinguptothisclosure,theGalleryexperimentedwithdifferentwaystokeeppeopleconnectedtotheinstitution.OneofthemosthighprofileprogramstoemergeduringthistimewastheexhibitionIn Your Facethatbeganwithacallforsubmissionsaskingthepublictosendinpostcard-sizedportraits.ThesuccessofIn Your FaceattractedtheattentionofthePortraitGalleryofCanada,apublicgallerywithoutapermanenthome,andresultedinapartnership.

Cultural Orienteering and Situated Meaning-MakingChair:RuthBacon,CanadianCultureOnline,Canada

A Museum Portal for Cultural LandscapesLeen Breure, Sandor Spruit, and Hans Voorbij, Utrecht University; and Willemke Landman, Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht, The Netherlands

Weproposeamodel that identifiesgenericrequirements forspatiotemporalculturalheritageWeb sites.The model helps to explain how well different implementation environments suitvarious objectives.The model is applied to our own cultural landscape portal on the regionaroundtheVecht,asmallriverwhichrunsfromthecityofUtrechttothenorth,atbothsidesfringedbyarichhistoricallandscape.

Exploring The National Gallery of Australia On-line Database for Prints and Printmaking SpatiallyJohn O’Brien, Soul Solutions, Australia

Onlinemappingishot.Theinterfaceofmapsprovidesanengagingmechanismtoexploreobjectsspatially;thatis,toviewanobjectatitslocationontheearth.Thispaperexploresthepracticaluseofon-linemappingtechnologiestoprovideanintuitiveandengagingexperiencefortheexplorationofextensivecollectionsatlowcosttotheinstitution.TheNationalGalleryofAustraliaprovidesanon-linedatabaseforprintsandprintmakingintheAustralianregion.

Cultural Heritage on the MapLeila Liberge, Wat Was Waar / Erfgoed Nederland, and Job Gerlings, Stichting STAP, The Netherlands

WatWasWaar.nlisarecently-releasednationalplatformforhistorical-geographicalinformationintheNetherlands.Thisjointinitiativeofover25culturalheritageinstitutionsprovidesthegeneralpublicwitheasyaccesstohistoricaldatawithalocationcomponent.WatWasWaar.nlcaterstothebroad interest in localhistorythatwasreconfirmedbyrecentresearchconductedbytheDutchgovernment.Thisresearchconcludedthatthemaininterestofthegeneralpublicregardingculturalheritageon-linefocusesonfamilyhistoryandlocalhistory.

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Booth55ADLIB Information Systemshttp://www.adlib.com

Bert Degenhart DrenthManaging DirectorADLIB Information SystemsSafariweg 18-22Maarssen Utrecht3605 MA The [email protected]

Adlib Information Systems is a specialist software company with a history of more than 20 years of service to the library, museum and archive sector. An international organisation, we can demonstrate both the breadth of experience and the cutting-edge technology required to keep our products and services at the forefront of an increasingly diverse and global cultural marketplace. We are fully committed to both endorse and actively promote the adoption of international in-formation management standards throughout the cultural sector, and have indeed played our part in the development of several of them. Equally, we recognise the importance of long-term preservation of cultural data as a given, which reaches far beyond any current fashion in software design.

Booth��Alukahttp://www.aluka.org

Inna StolyarovaLibrary Relations Outreach Specialist, Event PlannerJSTOR149 Fifth Avenue, 8th FloorNew York NY10010 [email protected]

Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an on-line digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Aluka’s mission is to connect resources and scholars from around the world. Aluka seeks to attract high-quality scholarly content about Africa from institutions and individuals across the globe. By contributing their col-lections to the Aluka platform, content owners will have a means of offering access to their collections to an international audience—with-out having to develop and support their own technology platforms. Aluka’s web-based platform provides powerful tools for research, teaching, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

Booth37Arius 3Dhttp://www.arius3d.com

Susan DineenVP & General ManagerARIUS3D755 The Queensway EastUnit 20Mississauga ONL4Y 4C5 Canada [email protected]

Arius3D develops digital archiving solutions for Culture & Heritage, Scientific Research, Education, Industrial Processes, and Forensic Sci-ence applications. Arius3D offers 3D imaging systems and services as well as image licensing from a growing image library. The goal of Arius3D is to develop future technologies that will define, defend and grow the reference standard for three dimensional color images. To learn more about Arius3D’s imaging products and services, contact Ar-ius3D General Information at 905-270-7999, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.arius3d.com.

Booth38Avencia Incorporatedhttp://www.avencia.com

Rachel Cheetham-RichardVice-PresidentAvencia340 North 12th St., Suite 402Philadelphia PA19107 [email protected]

Avencia is an award-winning geographic analysis and software devel-opment firm specializing in the creation of web-based tools that use mapping technologies to enhance decision-making in municipalities, governments, businesses, and non-profits. Avencia developed Sajara, a unique web-based digital asset management (DAM), for geo-referenc-ing, managing, searching, and displaying collections. Unlike other DAM solutions that only manage structured content, Sajara is unique for its ability to retrieve assets by enabling users to search by address, inter-section or neighborhood. Assets in the geographic vicinity are returned with metadata and displayed on a map, in GoogleMaps or GoogleE-arth. Winner of Philadelphia Magazine ‘Best of Philly 2007’ award.

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Booth�5Barking Dog Studioshttp://www.barkingdogstudios.com

Julia GradyBarking Dog Studios5 Douglas Street, 3rd FloorGuelph ONN1H 2S8 [email protected]

Barking Dog Studios provides companies with innovative tools to effectively utilize the web. Our collaborative environment involves a great deal of brainstorming amongst clients, project managers, pro-grammers and designers.

Booth52Canadian Heritage Information Networkhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/index_flashFT.html

Daniel FeenyBusiness Development & Marketing ManagerCanadian Heritage Information Network15, Eddy StreetGatineau QCK1A 0M5 [email protected]

Le Musée virtuel du Canada (MVC), c’est la découverte de 2 500 mu-sées canadiens ayant élaboré des expositions virtuelles captivantes, des jeux en ligne et une galerie de plus de 630 000 images tirées de leurs collections. Les enseignants peuvent également accéder à des plans de cours pratiques et à d’autres ressources pédagogiques interactives. Le MVC est géré par le Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine (RCIP), un organisme du ministère du Patrimoine canadien.

The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) is the creation of 2500 Cana-dian museums who have developed exciting virtual exhibitions, on-line games and a gallery of more than 630000 images from their collec-tions. Teachers can also find lesson plans and other interactive educa-tional resources. The VMC is administered by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), an agency within the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Booth57The Center for Arts Management and Technologyhttp://camt.artsnet.org

David DombroskyExecutive DirectorCentre for Arts Management and Technology Carnegie Mellon University5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA15213-3890 [email protected]

The Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT.artsnet.org), an applied research center at Carnegie Mellon University, investigates ways technology can improve and enhance the practice of arts man-agement and, when appropriate, develops solutions that meet criti-cal needs in the field. CAMT recently partnered with the New York Foundation for the Arts to develop CueRate (www.CueRate.org), an on-line artist application and review system that enables museums to conduct both convened and remote jury processes.

Booth33Ecentricartshttp://www.ecentricarts.com

Keith DurrantPresidentEcentricarts Inc.317 Adelaide St. W, Suite 309Toronto ONM5V 1P9 [email protected]

ecentricarts is a web design and development company. We provide in-novative Internet solutions to a broad base of clients, including: cultural organizations; government; not-for-profits and, select corporate clients. Utilizing the best in new technologies and top creative talent, ecen-tricarts consistently delivers timeless projects that engage, enrich and enlighten the end user. Our service offerings include interactive strate-gy, web design and development, virtual exhibitions, on-line collections, on-line databases and e-commerce (including on-line fund-raising and member registration solutions). We have worked with organizations such as the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Art Metropole, the Canadian Music Centre, the Glenbow Museum, Canada’s National History Society, Canadian Heritage, the Textile Museum of Canada and the Virtual Museum of Canada.

Booth39eduwebhttp://www.eduweb.com

David SchallerPrincipaleduweb1776 Iglehart Ave.St. Paul MN55104 [email protected]

Eduweb develops innovative learning games and interactives about art, science, history, and technology that hit the sweet spot where learning theory, digital media, and fun meet. We seek to engage the many ways of that people learn about the world through thoughtful application of learning theory, imaginative conceptualizations, and fre-quent evaluation. Our clients include Colonial Williamsburg, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and many other mu-

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seums, zoos, and aquariums around the country. Our projects have won numerous awards including three Best of the Web awards from Museums and the Web and ten MUSE awards from the American Association of Museums.

Booth29Gallery Systemshttp://www.gallerysystems.com

Harold PotischmanDirector, Sales and MarketingGallery Systems261 West 35th Street, 12th FloorNew York NY10001-1902 [email protected]

Gallery Systems delivers powerful Collections Management and Web publishing solutions to museums, universities, government agencies and corporate collectors worldwide. Our clients use TMS to man-age diverse collections and activities, while eMuseum guides visitors through a virtual tour of their collections. For over 25 years, Gallery Systems has been dedicated to improving the way institutions orga-nize and share collections with their communities. We serve many of the world’s finest museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Tate, Museum der Moderne Salz-burg, and the State Hermitage Museum.

Gallery Systems is sponsoring the Welcome Reception at the McCord Museum.

Booth��IDEA Information Systemshttp://www.idea-alm.com

Menachem CohenRegional Sales ManagerIdea Information Systems81 Kendall Rd.Lexington MA 02421 [email protected]

IDEA is the unique provider of integrated management solutions for Archives, Libraries and Museums (ALMs). Using IDEA’s products en-ables ALMs to generate new global & internal services by preserva-tion, management, and empowerment of their knowledge, culture, and information assets. IDEA provides ALM staff and remote end users with transparent handling of a myriad of information: physical, digi-tal and logical. It produces, preserves, and projects the organization’s data regardless of its origin, language, and structure, in order to easily expose it within a dynamically changing environment

Booth5�(SharedwithLearningTimes)Idéeclichttp://www.ideeclic.com

Daniel RivetDirector of Production and Research & DevelopmentIdéeclic490, St-Joseph blvd, Suite 201Gatineau QCJ8Y 3Y7 [email protected]

Idéeclic is a development company specialised in creating products and offering services for cultural institutions. Our mission is to show-case heritage for learning purposes through multimedia and the Web. Our projects are internationally recognized for being user-friendly, hav-ing high-end graphics and innovative technological qualities, and for being sensitive to target audiences. We conduct research and develop-ment in the field of museum on the web in order to develop innovative technological solutions for cultural institutions.

Booth23Ideumhttp://www.ideum.com

Jim SpadacciniDirectorIdeum4895 1/2 Corrales RoadCorrales NM87048 [email protected]

Ideum works collaboratively with museums, nonprofit organizations, and socially responsible companies to develop compelling interactive Websites and electronic exhibits. We’re deeply interested in the top-ics we explore and passionate about finding the best ways to present them. We have backgrounds in visual and graphic design, video and photography, programming, writing, and education. Our clients include; Adobe Systems, The Association of Science-Technology Centers, Califor-nia Science Center, Chabot Space & Science Center, Computer History Museum, The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, The Explorato-rium, Liberty Science Center, NASA, National Baseball Hall of Fame, The National Park Service, and the Tech Museum of Innovation.

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Booth25Interface Guruhttp://www.interfaceguru.com

Cia RomanoCEO and FounderInterface Guru177 N. Church Ave. Suite 919Suite 919Tucson AZ85701 [email protected]

Usability services optimize your Web site, Intranet, software applica-tion, or kiosk. We offer Usability Research, including usability testing, a usability laboratory, mobile usability testing, and field studies; Expert Usability Analysis, including the RealityCheck Report™ (a compre-hensive, illustrated usability analysis of up to 5 tasks on your Web site, intranet, software product, or kiosk) and the Interface Advisor™ (a just-in-time review of existing projects or new designs); User Experi-ence Design, including information architecture, task sequence design; user interface design and personas; Organizational Consulting, includ-ing facilitation; digital media strategy; and Training, including usability boot camps.

Booth3�(SharedwithInterwoven)Interflowhttp://www.interflow.com

Christine SimoniniInterwoven, Inc.160 East Tasman Dr.San Jose CA95134 [email protected]

Interflow Systems Consulting is a global systems integration services provider with a focus on content integration and partnered with In-terwoven since 1999. Interflow has capabilities across all Interwo-ven products including TeamSite, WorkSite, MediaBin, LiveSite and MetaTagger. Interflow can provide Application Development, Architec-ture, Hosting and Remote Administration. We collaboratively work with organizations to get the most out of their Content Management in-vestments helping scores of organizations across North America and Europe to more comprehensively integrate their Application Server, Content Management and Portal solutions; ensuring they deliver the promised value and ROI.

Interflow is a corporate sponsor of Museums and the Web 2008.

Booth3�(SharedwithInterflow)Interwovenhttp://www.interwoven.com

Christine SimoniniInterwoven, Inc.160 East Tasman Dr.San Jose CA95134 [email protected]

Interwoven is a global leader in content management solutions. In-terwoven’s software and services enable organizations to effectively leverage content to drive business growth by improving the customer experience, increasing collaboration, and streamlining business pro-cesses in dynamic environments. Our unique approach combines user-friendly simplicity with robust IT performance and scalability to unlock the value of content. Today, more than 4,000 enterprise and professional services organizations worldwide including the world’s leading art institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Heritage Board of Singapore, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Rijksmuseum, and Australian War Memorial have se-lected Interwoven’s MediaBin Digital Asset Management solution to solve their image management challenges.

Interwoven is a corporate sponsor of Museums and the Web 2008.

Booth24KE Softwarehttp://www.kesoftware.com

Sylvia NikolovaKE Software655-409 Granville St.Vancouver BCV6C 1T2 [email protected]

KE EMu is used by Cultural History, Natural History and Art Muse-ums around the world. KE Software drives our business from museum professionals and global museum standards. KE Software has built its reputation on successful implementations and happy clients. At KE Software we pride ourselves on our first class service during imple-mentation, our comprehensive training and of course our unparalleled support. KE EMu is designed to be very flexible, simple and user friendly. EMu has extensive multimedia functionality and comes fully integrated with the Web. EMu clients include Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Canadian Museum of Civilization, New York Botanical Gardens and many more…

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Booth5�(sharedwithIdéeclic)LearningTimeshttp://www.learningtimes.net

John WalberCEOLearningTimesP.O.Box 25034Brooklyn NY11202-5034 [email protected]

Booth28Luna Imaginghttp://www.LunaImaging.com

Nancy HarmDirector of Business DevelopmentLuna Imaging Inc.2702 Media Center DriveLos Angeles CA90065 [email protected]

Insight® Software Suite + LUNA. THE POWER TO BUILD, MANAGE, AND SHARE YOUR DIGITAL COLLECTIONS. Luna Imaging is a recog-nized leader in software and services for visual collections. Luna Imag-ing produces LUNA and the Insight® Software Suite, which together provide a complete visual environment for cataloging and working on-line with high-resolution images and data from anywhere at anytime. In addition, Luna Imaging provides the highest quality scanning ser-vices at competitive rates to convert collections into digital form. Luna Imaging has built a solid reputation working with some of the most prominent and demanding museums, archives, universities, and other organizations from around the world to create high quality digital im-age collections along with the tools for working with these important resources.

Booth2�Mediatropehttp://www.mediatrope.com

Laura MannMarketing DirectorMediatrope144 Townsend Street #200San Francisco CA94609 [email protected]

Mediatrope develops award-winning museum Web sites, kiosks and interactive environments. Mediatrope is the creator of Sitebots™ the preeminent content and communication manager for museums. Site-bots makes it easy to update your site, publish your collection on-line, manage email marketing, and power e-commerce. Sitebots is designed

for non-technical staff; no knowledge of HTML or Flash is required. Sitebots supports multilingual sites and works with software you al-ready use like The Raiser’s Edge and TMS. Clients include The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, MFA Boston, Seattle Art Museum and the Smithsonian.

Booth2�MutualArt.comhttp://www.mutualart.com

Marcia FinkelsteinMutualArt.com298 Fifth Avenue4th FloorNew York NY10001 [email protected]

MutualArt.com is a new information resource site for the art and cul-tural community; integrating art-related news, events, collections and exhibition content from sources worldwide. Subscribers may access the site via an affiliated museum and personalize their content as desired. Participating museums may offer access to MutualArt.com as a membership benefit and add their own news, events and program-ming to the content stream. Each museum is profiled in the museum directory, linking to news, artists and to their website. MutualArt.com offers a unique opportunity for museums to collaboratively engage their current members, increase visibility and broaden their audience on-line.

Booth5�New Media Consortiumhttp://www.nmc.org

Booth�3Night Kitchen Interactivehttp://www.whatscookin.com

Kara LaFleurMarketing CoordinatorNight Kitchen Interactive411 South 2nd Street, Suite 20019147 [email protected]

Night Kitchen Interactive is a Philadelphia-based interactive design studio that specializes in on-line learning, interactive exhibits, and mar-keting communications. Since 1997, we have applied our passion for interactive storytelling and participatory education to create solutions that connect organizations with their audiences. Our clients include The Smithsonian Institution, The National Constitution Center, The In-stitute for Learning Innovation, and more.

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Booth27OpenCollectionhttp://www.movingimage.us/

Carl GoodmanDeputy Director and Director of Digital MediaMuseum of the Moving Image3601 35 AvenueAstoria NY11106 USAEmail: [email protected]

OpenCollection is a full-featured collections management and on-line access application for museums, archives and digital collections. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have com-plex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. Unlike most other collections management applications, OpenCollection is completely web-based. All cataloging, search and administrative functions are accessed using common web-browser software, untying users from specific operating systems and making cataloguing by distributed teams and on-line ac-cess to collections information simple, efficient and inexpensive.

Booth34Oxynadehttp://www.oxynade.com

Hans NissensManaging DirectorOxynade BVBACoupure rechts 296Gent9000 [email protected]

Oxynade provides event calendar information to cultural agencies and web portals. By using a wide range of on-line and offline information sources, Oxynade specializes in harvesting event calendar information. As an electronic information provider, Oxynade delivers up-to-date in-formation to its customers. The Oxynade event calendars can be used for offline publishing and as an attractive new feature to your website and on-line business. Cultural & tourism agencies, government and non-profit organizations use Oxynade to promote cultural initiatives and to inform the community of cultural and leisure events. Oxynade eliminates the need of in-house editorial effort to keep a database up to date. Instead, regular updates are provided by Oxynade, ready for use in offline and on-line publications.

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Booth54Sourcelabhttp://sourcelab.us

Juan SanabriaProducer and DesignerSourcelab88 3rd Place #2Brooklyn NY11231 [email protected]

At Sourcelab we create media rich websites, interpretive exhibits and broadcast design. Our team provides complete project development including content planning, technical engineering, graphic and experi-ence design. We focus on topics that enhance our cultural heritage and aim to educate. We work with our clients to deliver projects that engage and inspire the imagination of their audience. We believe that there is always a solution to successfully present complex stories and sets of information through good information architecture and graphic design. Sourcelab is based in New York and San Francisco.

Booth53Vernon Systemshttp://www.vernonsystems.com

Maria LempriereVernon Systems LtdPO Box 6909AucklandNew [email protected]

Vernon Systems develop collections management systems used by hundreds of museums, galleries and archives professionals worldwide to manage a vast array of collections. Our products include: Vernon CMS, providing comprehensive collections management software with sophisticated options for the management of collection based activity such as conservation, loans and exhibitions; Vernon Browser, provid-ing public access over the internet/intranet with sophisticated search facilities and results views. Log-on facilities offer secure staff access to collections management information from offsite; and eHive, a simple and easy to use web based collections management system with built-in public access and the ability to create cross-museum communities.

Booth�4Willoughby Associateshttp://www.willo.com

David LaskyWilloughby Associates8828 Pershing Drive #113Playa del Rey CA90293-8088 [email protected]

Willoughby Associates, Limited, has provided collections management, web publishing, and custom software applications to museums, ar-chives, private collections, universities, and historical societies for al-most 30 years. Our experienced Help Desk and development staffs are committed to the ongoing support and creation of innovative soft-ware that makes it possible for cultural heritage institutions to achieve their changing information goals. Whether you want to manage your digital assets, publish your collections over the Internet, catalogue ar-chives, or record interpretive content, Willoughby provides easy-to-use, flexible software and professional expertise to make your technology projects successful.

Booths35-3�Zetcomhttp://www.zetcom.com

Roger ResleyZetcom9100 W. 110th Street, Suite 620Bulding 55Overland Park KS66210 [email protected]

zetcom AG is one of the leading museum software companies and is headquartered in Switzerland with offices in the US, France and Germany. Our multilingual flagship product MuseumPlus is the com-plete museum management system tailored to the needs of muse-ums, collections, galleries and cultural institutions. The rich feature set around its central module, the collection module, professionally man-ages scientific documentation of even complex collections. In addition MuseumPlus offers modules for exhibition-, event-, address and photo management as well as marketing support and can be easily custom-ized to specific needs and requirements. zetcom AG develops its prod-ucts on the base of international documentation standards (i.e. Mu-seumPlus is CHIN accredited and MDA Spectrum compliant). Among our customers are le Musée de Louvre, Paris; Spencer Art Museum, Kansas; Pinakotheken, München; The Wallace Collection, London; les Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels and many others.



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Birds-of-a-Feather BreakfastSponsoredbyJohnsHopkinsUniversity,MuseumStudiesprogram

TopicalinteresttablesarealwaysoneofthemostpopularsessionsatMuseumsandtheWeb.Theyprovideanopportunitytomeetpeoplewithsimilarinterestsfromverydiverseinstitutionsandtosolverealproblemstogetheratbreakfastandsometimesoverthecomingyear.Joinatablethatinterestsyou,orproposeatopiconthespotandhaveothersjoinyouatyourtable.Topicsproposed(newonescanbeadded)include:• Geo-encodingcollections• Handhelds• Mashups• Opensource

Interactions: A Full Day of Mini-Workshops, Professional Forums, Crit Rooms and Usability Labs

NMC Horizon Report for MuseumsThisforumwill introduceandsolicit inputtotheHorizonProjectandReportforMuseums,aprojectofNewMediaConsortium(NMC).ThepurposeoftheProjectistoidentifyanddescribethe emerging technologies that are likely to have significant impact on cultural stewardship,education, interpretation, management, audience engagement, and other aspects of museumpracticeduringthenextfewyears.

YouTube to MuseTube. Now we have Web 2.0 tools, how do we use them?David Greenfield, Loyola Marymount University, USA

This interaction will provide a forum to examine howWeb 2.0 technologies can be and areused by curators, educators and other museum professionals to expand a museum’s role bypromotingnewmethodsofcollaborationwithinitselfandwithothermuseumsandinstitutions.Thesetechnologiescanalsobeusedtoenhanceavisitor’sexperiencebytransformingitfromapassiveroletothatofanactiveparticipantinanexhibition.

Usability LabsPaul Marty, Florida State University, and Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

MichaelTwidaleandPaulMartywillrunaliveUsabilityLab.You’llbeableto:observesimple,low-cost,high-speedusertestingofmuseumWebsitesinaction;volunteertoparticipateasausertesteranddiscoversomeoftheproblemsusershaveonunknownsites;andvolunteeryoursitetobetested(ifspaceisstillavailable).

Eachusertestlastsabout20minutesandpeopledriftinandoutofthesession.Sitestobetestedarenotevaluatedinadvanceandvolunteerusersareselectedatrandom.The“user”leavestheroomwhiletheownerofthesitedescribeswhattheyconsideratypicalscenario–somethingtheaverageuserwouldbetryingtodo.Thisscenarioisconvertedintoataskandgiventotheusertoperformalongwithsomerandomlyselectedstandardtasks.Aftereachtest,theuser,siteowner,testadministratorsandaudiencewilldiscusswhatwaslearned.

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Funding Programs for Technology in MuseumsSonia Feigenbaum, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA; Christopher Mackie, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, USA; and Anne-Marie Millner, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada

SoniaFeigenbaumwillprofileNEH-fundedprojects thathavemadeuseofdigital technologiesand introduce fundingopportunities available in theDivisionof Public Programs.ChristopherMackiewillintroducetheMellonFoundation’sResearchinInformationTechnology(RIT)programpriorities, andhighlight trends likely to influence the courseof softwaredevelopment for themuseumcommunity.Anne-MarieMillnerwillprovideanoverviewoftheInvestmentprogramsoftheCanadianHeritageInformationNetwork(CHIN):VirtualMuseumofCanada&CommunityMemories.Allpresenterswillallowampletimeforquestionsabouttheirprograms.

Towards New Metrics Of Success For On-line Museum ProjectsSebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum, Australia

Museumsmusttakeanotherlookattheiranalyticstoolsandmethods.Itcallsforanewapproachandexaminesnewwaysofmeasuringtheuseofon-linemuseumprojectsandWebsites.ItlooksatthenewrangeofanalysistoolsavailabletoWebteamsand,referencingthebroadersegmentationworkofPeacockandBrownbill(2007),proposespracticalwaysasegmentedapproachcanworkfor museums of all sizes. It proposes thatmuseums need to take stock of their comparativepositioningineachofthesesegments,ratherthanuserawfigures.Drawinguponsearchengineoptimisation techniques and demand-side competitive ISP-level intelligence, it combines thesewith new site-specific techniques to allowmuseums to better learn how their existing usersbehaveontheirWebsites,aswellastoidentifythepotentialaudiencefortheirofferings,onethatiscurrentlyuntapped.

Professional Forum: Towards the Meta-MuseumChair:PhilGetchell,MuseumofFineArts,USA

The Meta Art Museum: Towards the Promise of an Open Collaboration PlatformJeff Steward and Jenna Fleming, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Scott Shunk, MIT, USA

Withmanycollectionsavailableon-line,artmuseumsfacenewopportunitiesindigitalcollaboration,serviceandscholarship.WewillprovideanoverviewofoneprojecttointegrateimagesanddatafromtheMuseumofFineArts,BostonwithVisualizingCultures’ scholarlymaterials tocreaterichcollaborativecontenton focusedtopics in Japanesehistory.While the technicalapproachis expected to evolve, it serves as amodel for a relatively simple and“hands-off”methodofcollection integration that is easily maintained and easily extended, allowing the Museum toprovide content for multiple on-line projects without significant extra investment.This paperwillalsodiscusslessonslearnedandfutureopportunitiesforartmuseumcollectionintegration,includingtheemergingstandardofCDWALite.

Crit Room I and 2Chair, Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, CanadaCritics, Participants and their Sites are listed on a separate sheet.ExperiencedWebdesignersandnewmediamanagersreviewrealmuseumWebsitesandoffertheircommentsinthe“CritRoom”.Modeledontheartschoolcritique,WebsitesarevolunteeredinadvancebyMW2008delegateswhoarepresenttoposetheproblemandrespond.

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3D imaging: A Glimpse into the Future!Corey Timpson, Canadian Heritage Information Network; and Jean-François Lapointe and Eric Paquet, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

Wepresent twoCHIN initiatives.Thefirst is theuseofNefertiti, software thatclassifiesandretrievesthree-dimensionalimagesandmodelsfromdatabases.UniquetoNefertitiisitscontent-basedalgorithmswhichpermituserstosearchbyscale,shape,and/orcolor.Thesecondisapilotproject in collaborationwith theMcCordMuseumand theCanadian SpaceAgencyusing theNRC’sDemotridesoftware.Demotridebringsartefacts,objectsandscenesvividlytolifeinthreedimensions(3D);thisprojectallowsparticipativeinteractionwithobjectsandartefacts,includingtheabilitytorotate,zoomandmanipulatethemforhighly-detailedexamination.

How Can Culture Really Connect? Semantic Front Line ReportRoss Parry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Howwouldyoupiecetogethertheculturewebofthefuture?Awishformoredecisive,open-minded developmental connections recently led to the 200�/2007 SemanticWebThinkTank(SWTT)project,aUKresearchpartnership.Thebig‘takehome’fromtheSWTTprojecthasnot,intheend,beenademonstrator,mash-uporasoftwarewidgetofsomekind.It’stheemergenceofasuggestedroadmapforthedevelopmentofajoined-updigitalculturalsector,toberevealedinmoredetailinacomingreport.

User ExpectationsSteven Smith, United Focus Pty Ltd, Australia

Thismini-workshopsessionwillexplorethecurrentandemergingtrendsinusers’expectationsoftheiron-lineexperiencewithmuseumWebsites.WhatdotheywanttoseeanddoonmuseumWebsites?Howdotheywanttointeractwiththecontent?HowhasGooglechangedtheon-linelandscapeandusers’experienceofcultureandheritageon-line?

Wiki Software and Facilities for MuseumsJonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom

Thepotentialfortheuseofwikisbymuseumstoaidcollaborationbetweenusersisgreat.Thismini-workshoppresentscurrentwikitoolsandfacilitiesthatareavailableon-lineandsuitableforusebymuseumsforon-linecollaborationandthebuildingofvirtualcommunities.Aselectionofexistingexamplesofmuseum-relatedwikisissurveyed,includingcommentsontheirfeaturesinawidercontext.Somelessonsfromexperienceofwikissofararegivenandthepossiblefutureofwikis,especiallywithrespecttomuseums,isconsidered.

Agile Methods for Project ManagementDavid Ellis, Think Design, Inc.; Michael Jenkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Willy Lee, The Min-neapolis Institute of Arts; and Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

We will share how the application ofAgile methods for project management have impactedthecreation,collaborationanddevelopmentoftools insupportofthesteveresearchproject,a collaboration to research the role and usefulness of social tagging as it applies to museumcollections.Wewilldescribethefeaturesandbenefitsofagileprojectmanagementandexplainwhytheymightbeusefulforabroadrangeofmuseumcollaborativeprojects.

Beyond Launch: Museum Videos On YouTubeDavid Hart and Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Chris Alexander, San Jose Museum of Art; Dan Dark, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Jennifer Rossi, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculp-ture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; and Nicole Minor, Exploratorium, USA

Professionals from a variety of museums that have startedYouTube channels discuss how tobuildandmaintaintheseWebvideoinitiatives.Afterquicklyreviewingkeydiscoveriesfromthe

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differentinstitutions,thepanelwillbeopenedfordiscussionandquestions.TopicscoveredwillincludeusingYouTubeasamarketingtool(DoYouTubevisitstranslateintowebsiteorphysicalvisitstoyourmuseum?);YouTubeasaneducationaltool;reachingandexpandingyouraudienceandcommunityon-lineandoffline;managingandmaintainingtheinitiativeaftertheexcitementofthelaunch;in-houseversusoutsourcing;workingwithinconstraintsoftime,money,andresources;futuretrendsandcurrentfeatures;andhownottowastetimechasingyourown(long)tail.

Professional Forum: What Does Openness Mean to the Museum Community?Chairs: Brian Kelly, University of Bath, and Mike Ellis, Eduserv, United Kingdom

Intheprovisionofnetworkedservicesformuseums,theterm‘openness’cropsupinavarietyof contexts, including open standards and open source software. In addition, theWeb 2.0environment has led to increased interest in open content and in the use of freely availablenetworkedapplicationswhichmayberegardedasopenservices.Itcanbedifficulttoargueagainstthebenefitswhichopennessseekstoprovide.Butwillacommitmenttoopennessguaranteethedeploymentofeffectiveandsustainableservices?Discusstheissueswithyourcolleaguesandhelptodevelopamuseumcommunityconsensusandactionplan.

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Just Do It! Web 2.0 as task not technologyGail Durbin, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom

ThecentralissuesinthedevelopmentofWeb2.0activitiesareabouttasksettingandexperiment.Activeusersofsitesbringanunderstandingoftheirpotentialandapplicationswithinmuseums,andsodoesarisk-taking‘suck-it-and-see’attitude.Learningbyexperimenthelpsusdrawintheusersweneversee,andsomeofthebestactivitiesarefoundedonimaginationratherthanmoney.Theaimoftheworkshopistoprovidealargenumberofrelativelysimpleworkableideasthatpeoplemighttakeawayandadapttotheirownmuseums.

Scratch: On-line, interactive, social programming language from the MIT LifeLong Kindergarten GroupLiddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia

Scratchisanew,freeprogramminglanguagefromMIT’sMediaLabthatmakesiteasytoworkwithamixofmediatoexploreideasandconstructinteractiveon-screenobjectsandenvironments.Approximately 95,000 such projects have been published this year on the open internationalWebsitewheresocialnetworkingsupportscollaborationinprojectbuildingandcritiqueofideasrepresented.Thismini-workshopaimstoshowhoweasyitistoengageon-screenandon-linewithideas,objectsandotherpeopleinaScratchenvironment.MuseumstaffcaneasilyuseScratchtoprovideinteractiveon-screendemonstrationsofmechanicaldevices,interactivecontextsforcollections,andimportantly,enablevisitorstotakethemuseumandtheirmuseumexperiencestotheoutsideworld.

Using Standardized Methods To Present Three-dimensional Content On The Web In The Context Of Cultural HeritageChristian Derler and Sandra Murg, Joanneum Research; Otmar Moritsch and Wolfgang Pensold, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria

Thismini-workshopgivesanoverviewofstandardsandmethodsforrepresenting3Dwalk-throughcontent.Toallowacuratoreasydevelopmentofvirtualtours,anapplicationwasdevelopedtosupporttheprocedure.Thedevelopmentprocesswillbeoutlined,aswellashowaprototypicclientisusedtoaccessvirtualexhibitions.Theclientusesstandardizedmethodsfortherenderingofthethree-dimensionalscenesandalsoallowsforinteractivity.

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RecognizingachievementinheritageWebsitedesign,eachyearwenamethe“BestoftheWeb”.MuseumWebsitesfromaroundtheworld–launchedorsignificantlyupdatedin2007–werenominatedinanopenprocess,andreviewedbyacommitteeofmuseumprofessionals.Categoriesare:

On-lineExhibitionEducationalSiteMuseumProfessionals’SiteResearchSiteOn-lineCommunityorServicePodcast(Audio/Video)InnovativeorExperimentalSiteSmall

ThepanelselectstheBestOverallMuseumSitefromallofthesitesnominated.

JudgesChair: Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, Canada

PanelDana Allen-Greil, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, USASteven Beasley, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, USAKatherine Burton Jones, Harvard University, USAJim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, ScotlandIan Edelman, Hampshire County Council, United KingdomKaren Elinich, Franklin Institute, USAPeter Gorgels, Rijksmuseum, The NetherlandsDavid Greenfield, Loyola Marymount University, USAKate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation, USATana Hargest, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, USAKajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, SwedenDouglas Hegley, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USABrad Larson, Brad Larson Media, Inc., USAMarjo Mäenpää, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, FinlandLawrence Monda, National Museums of Kenya, KenyaAndré-Claude Potvin, Ogilvy 2B Interactive, CanadaTim Svenonius, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USAMarcia Tiede, University of Arizona Libraries, USACorey Timpson, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), CanadaBruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, USA

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The Poss Family Mediatheque @ The ICA BostonEmma Fernandez and Rosanna Flouty, Institute for Contempo-rary Art Boston, USA

Participants in the demonstration will explore the fullcontent and functionality of the Mediatheque, as well astest the real-time tagging feature to tag artworks, joinconversationson-linewith visitors to the ICA inBoston,andseeworkcreatedbyteensattheICA.

Booth�4The Canadian Art Database Project: From Information to KnowledgeBill Kirby, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, Canada

This Project of the Centre Contemporary CanadianArt[CCCA] is a �0-year work in progress, with the overallobjectiveofbroadeningpublicawarenessofcontemporaryCanadianArtinCanadaandabroad.

Booth�5Poem Scroll with Deer Interactive WebsiteChristina De Paolo, Seattle Art Museum, USA

ThePoemScrollwithDeerisa�7thCenturymasterpiece,onviewinthemuseumgalleriesin2007.Inconjunctionwiththisexhibition,awebsiteandgallerykioskwasproducedtovirtuallyrecreatetheentirescrollanddisplayitasitwouldhaveoriginallybeenread.

Booth23Dane-Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the LandKate Hennessy, University of British Columbia, Amber Ridington, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

This exhibit’s community-directed production processhas contributed to the revitalization of Dane-zaa cultureand language as it brought elders and youth together todocumentstories,songs,andtheirrelationshiptotheland.

Booth24Developing the Usable Semantic WikiRose Sherman, Minnesota Historical Society, USA

The Minnesota Historical Society just launched www.placeography.org, a wiki about any place anywhere thatanyonecanedit.

Booth25A Postcolonial Museum of the PresentFrançoise Vergès, Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunion-naise, France

Thedemonstrationwillpresenttheprojectinitsmultipleelements.Theobjective is toengagewithsimilarprojectsandcontributetothedebateonthepostcolonialmuseumofthe2�thcentury.

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Digital Threads: Textiles, Art, TechnologyJohn Dalrymple and Patricia Bentley, Textile Museum of Canada, Canada

DigitalThreadsisaninteractiveWebenvironmentcreatedbytheTextileMuseumofCanadathathighlightsnewdigitalartworks by Canadian artists. This interactive projectalso has a studio for visitors to create their own digitalworkwithcomponentsandconceptsborrowedfromthefeaturedartists.

Booth27The Mentora Alsina. A century of experimental physics teaching in BarcelonaJoan Munoz, Museu de la Ciencia i de la Tecnica de Catalunya, Spain

The Science and Technology Museum from Catalunya(mNACTEC)hasdevelopeda virtual exhibition from thedocumentsandobjectsusedfortheexhibition“ExperimentalPhysicsLaboratoryoftheMentorAlsina”.

Booth28Unlocking Digital VaultsSuzanne Adamko Isaacs, National Archives & Records Adminis-tration, USA

The DigitalVaults, an on-line interactive exhibit for theNationalArchivesExperience, launched inFebruary2008.The DigitalVaults uses individual record selections madebythevisitortobuildamatrixofrecordstaggedwiththesameterms.Thiscreatesanexperiencewheretherecordsetischangedeachtimeanewrecordisselected.

Booth3�smARTkids Refreshed: an Online Tool for Learning About ArtMelissa Holbert, The Smart Museum of Art, USA

Thesitewasafinalistinthe2004FlashFilmFestivalandwasrecognizedasaSiteof theWeekby theSBCKnowledgeNetwork Explorer. The new version features increasedinteractivity, simplified navigation, and the addition ofdynamiccontent.

Booth33The Kids Are All Right: Reaching the Internet Generation using Interactive Web Technologies and NO MONEYBetsey Brock and Erin Langner, Henry Art Gallery, USA

Communicating with generations that have grown up inthe digital age is an important part of connecting with amuseum’scommunity.

Booth34Virtual ZipscribeMichael Wilson and Chris Weisbart, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA

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Coffee in the Demonstrations 8:30am–�0:00am

An interactive narrative allows museum guests to bothsucceed and fail (by destroying the specimen) in freeingfossilsfromthematrixwithanimmersive3Denvironment,sound effects, and a digital paleontologist guide who willleadtheguestina2-5minuteinteraction.

Booth35Steve.museum: Software Tools for Social TaggingRob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

In this demonstration we will show several of the opensourcetoolsdevelopedusingthestevesoftwaremodelasexamplesofwaysinwhichotherinstitutionsmaybegintoaddress theirdesires to featuresocial taggingcontentontheirownWebsites.

Booth3�Mischief & Malice: Crime in the MuseumJessica Koepfler, Institute for Learning Innovation, USA and Nick Gamble, University of Toronto, Canada

The graduating class of the Museum Studies program attheUniversityofTorontolaunchedavirtualexhibitiononApril2,2008. Inthisdemonstrationtheprojectmanagerswillshowcaseboththeprocessandthefinalproductofthisyear-longendeavor.

Booth37Japanese History of the last 50 years Reflected on TV Ads: On-line Exhibition Junko Iwabuchi, Keio University, Japan

The animated TV ads of Momoya Co., Ltd. (a leadingJapaneseprocessedfoodcompany)thatareintroducedinthisexhibitiondatebackto�958.TheanimatedcharacterisderivedfromMr.NoriheiMiki,aversatilecomedian,whoappearedinthisseriesofTVads.

Booth38The Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum in Second LifeMelissa Carrillo, Smithsonian Latino Center, USA

Through a demonstration of work in progress, we willillustrateourcollaborativeworkwithOhioUniversity’sVitalLabinthebuildingofLVMinSecondLife.Wewilldiscussourphilosophybehind theLVMdesign, content structureandnavigation.

Booth5�Archives of Ontario: The Web – Pablum or ProteinStewart Boden, Archives of Ontario, Canada

For more than a decade the Archives of Ontario hasimplemented a wide-ranging on-line strategy to increaseouruserbaseandreachnewaudiences.Thisprogramhasunbashedlybeendevelopedtomakearchivalholdingsmore‘palatable’and‘easytodigest.’

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Mirror Mirror... Looking back through the eyes of the CFPL news cameraScott Barrie, Archives of Ontario, Canada

In 2002, the people of Ontario became the fortunaterecipients of a time capsule vividly illustrating life in theprovince during the �950s and �9�0s when LondontelevisionstationCFPLgenerouslydonated2,700reelsofnewsfilmtotheArchivesofOntario.ThisdemonstrationwillpresentitinaWebenvironment.

Booth53A Journey into Time ImmemorialIvana Filipovich, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Webelievewehavecompletelysucceededintransformingpurelymuseumcontentintoavirtualancientenvironmentwhich gives the visitors endless ways of exploring thecontentandenjoyingtheanimatedscenesfromthepast.

Booth54From Seminar to Cyberspace: Collaborative Approaches to Public History and New MediaMandy Koroniak, Canada

In2005,theCanadaScienceandTechnologyMuseumsignedamemorandumofunderstandingwith thePublicHistoryProgram, at Carleton University in Ottawa that led todevelopmentoftheprogramsfeaturedhere.

Booth55Museums and Heritage Institutions Working in Network. The Regional System of Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de CatalunyaJanine Sprünker, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

I will show the results obtained of the network analysisof the Regional System of mNACTEC.The methods andtechniques of network analysis offer useful mechanismsapplicabletothefieldoforganizationandmanagementofmuseumsandheritageinstitution.

Booth5�The Virtual Museum of the University’s Cultural Heritage of The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoFrancisco Caviedes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

TheVirtualMuseumof theUniversity’sCulturalHeritage(VMUCH) is a dynamic interactive space where usersnavigateand interactwithUNAM’scultural, scientificandhistoricalheritagein3Dreal-timespace.

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Non-profit organizations are welcome to place theirliteratureonthesetablesfordistributiontootherdelegates.Commercialmaterialswillberemoved.AvailableforbothDemonstrationsSessions.

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MuseTech Central, the MCN Project RegistrySusan Chun, Consultant; Michael Jenkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; and Willy Lee, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA

A joint initiative of the Museum Computer Network(MCN) and the Museum Software Foundation (MSF),the newly-launched MuseTech Central is a persistent,searchable resource where the museum community canshareinformationabouttechnology-relatedprojects.

Booth�4Providing Freely Downloadable Images To The Academic CommunitySarah Winmill, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom InApril2003theVictoriaandAlbertMuseum(V&A)madeavail-ableon-lineapproximately4,000imagesofobjectswithinitscol-lectiontobesearchedandviewed.Overtimethisgrewto27,000worksrepresentedinover43,000availableimages.

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Teens Connect to Art and Each Other at Young Peoples Laboratories for Art: Statens Museum for Kunst embraces user-created content and social networkingAnne Tessing Skovbo Nielsen and Tine Nygaard, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

StatensMuseumforKunst(SMK),theDanishnationalgallery,wantedtouseWeb2.0technologies,socialnetworkinganduser-contributed content to reach a teenage audience. In2007 SMK launched a new art community designed forteens.

Booth2�Web 2.0 on the Beach: The V&A experiments with a MashupMark Hook, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom

WewilldemonstratehowwedevelopedtheWorldBeachProject with artist and weaver Sue Lawty, from initialconcepttolaunch;wewillalsodiscusswhatthechallengeshave been in building the interface, and moderating thesubmissions,andhowwehavedealtwiththoseissues.

Booth23Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807David Prior, Parliamentary Archives, UK, United Kingdom

AWebsitewascommissionedtoenableuserstointeractwith documents, works of art and museum artifacts ofslavery on the 200th anniversary of the parliamentaryabolitionoftheBritishslavetrade.

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Virtual Rome: A Tour of Ancient RomeEdward Bachta, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

Travelbackto320ADandtakeatouroftheRomanForum.Panoramicimagesprovidethebackdropfortheexperience.ApanoramatoolcalledFlashPanoramaPlayerprovidedtheframeworkfordevelopment.

Booth25Art History Images on the Website of Siberian Federal UniversityInna Kizhner, Siberian Federal University, Russia

Siberian museums and research centres contributed bystudyingstandardsforcreatingvisualinformationresources,buildinganarthistoryimagedatabase,developingcataloguingtools,andinvolvingstudentsinresearchprojects,aswellasdoing thepracticalworkofcreatinganarthistory imagelibrary.

Booth2�Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know?Aaron Kline and Adrian Van Allen, Exploratorium, USA

Forthepastthreeyears,adiverseprojectteamhasworkedwith media specialists, scientists, journalists, evaluators,educators,andmoretocreateanon-lineresourcethatnotonlyoffersusersawindowintothewayscientistsevaluateanduseevidenceintheirresearch,butalsomirrorsthewayindividuals assess information tobuild theirownbodyofscientificknowledge.

Booth27Electronic Remembrance: From Roll Of Honour Interactive To Biographical Base For National On-line Collaboration Bruce Ralston, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand

The demonstration will show the relationship betweentheMuseumandadataresource,Cenotaph,abiographicaldatabase of New Zealanders who have died in conflicts.Establishment of persistent URLs and web browsability,have had a flow-on impact for access to other Museumcollectiondatasets.

Booth28Matsumoto-jo: A 16th Century Japanese CastleJonathan Amakawa, Studio Amakawa, USA

Interactive 3D artist and programmer JonAmakawa willdemonstrateaprojectthatheiscurrentlydevelopingtitledMatsumoto-jo:A��thCenturyJapaneseCastle.

Booth3�The MultiMatch Project: Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage on the WebJennifer Marlow, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

TheEU-fundedMultiMatchprojectaimstoovercomelanguagebarriersandmediaanddistributionproblemsaffectingaccess

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toon-lineculturalheritagematerial.Partnersaredevelopinga vertical search engine able to harvest and synthesizeheterogeneousinformationfromdistributedsources.

Booth33Teaching with Art: On-line Curriculum-Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonWillamarie Moore and Jenna Fleming, Museum of Fine Arts, USA

See a new on-line education resource created by theMuseumofFineArts,Boston.Thistoolencouragesteacherstocreateandsharetheme-basedon-lineartworkcollectionstailoredtotheirlessonplans.

Booth34ExhibitFiles: a community site for exhibit designers and developersWendy Pollock, Association of Science-Technology Centers, and Jim Spadaccini, Ideum, USA

ExhibitFiles is a creation of theAssociation of Science-TechnologyCenters(ASTC),aninternationalorganizationofsciencecentersandmuseums,incollaborationwithIdeumandacoregroupofexhibitdevelopersanddesigners.

Booth35Pachyderm Project UpdateScott Sayre, Sandbox Studios / Museum411 and Christina De Paolo, Seattle Art Museum, USA

ThisdemonstrationwillhighlightrecentdevelopmentswiththePachydermopen-sourceauthoringtool.ThepresenterswillprovideashortoverviewofthenewcommunityWebsite“PachyForge”,aswellavarietyofnewon-lineandin-galleryprogramsdevelopedusingthePachydermauthoringtool.

Booth3�Nisenet.org: Visualizing Small Science and Dispersed CommunitiesDavid Beck and Kate Duckworth, Exploratorium, USA

Nisenet.org is designed to foster cross-disciplinarycollaboration between informal science educators andnanoscalescienceresearchers,tocaptureanddisseminatecurrent knowledge about nanoscale education, and toexplore novelways of visualizing both the nanoscale andthenetworkitself.

Booth38The Biodiversity Heritage Library: An International Museum and Library CollaborationConstance Rinaldo, Harvard University, USA

TheBiodiversityHeritageLibrary(BHL)isanopenaccessdigital library thatcovers the legacy taxonomic literature.Theintegrationoftaxonomicintelligencewillenablelinkagestootherrelevant indexedcontent in theEncyclopediaofLifeandotherweb-accessiblename-basedsources.

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National Gallery of Canada: Reaching our AudiencesJo-Anne Landriault, National Gallery of Canada, Canada

CyberMuseistheNationalGalleryofCanada’sEducationandResearchwebsite, targeted tofive specific audiences.It includes user-friendly interactive learning tools, as wellaspracticalteachingresourcesforschools.CyberMusehasan averageof 4million hits andmore than �25,000usersessionspermonth.

Booth52National Gallery of Canada: What the Visitor WantsAshish Bhagrath, National Gallery of Canada, Canada

TheNationalGalleryofCanada’swebsitehasanewlook!Thankstoamoreintuitivedesignandincreasedaccessibility,visitors will experience the National Gallery of Canada’srichvirtualresourceswiththeirneedsinmind.

Booth53iPhone: Next Generation Museum Device?Chris Alexander, San Jose Museum of Art, USA

ThisdemonstrationwillfocusonaprototypetourthattheSanJoseMuseumofArthasdevelopedusingtheiPhoneandiPodTouch.ThetourisconstructedbycreatingsmallWebpageswhichareviewableoneitherdevice.

Booth54The Tool For Temporary Exhibition OrganizersDebora Mugica, Culturable, Spain

Culturable.com enriches the cultural arena by linkingorganizationsandindividualswishingtocreatetemporarynonprofitart,scienceorhistoricalexhibits.

Booth55Reach new audiences, increase numbers of visitors, and become a major part of the local community by using on-line social networking sites and blogsIngrid Beazley, Dulwich Picture Gallery, United Kingdom

Usingexistingon-line communities andblogs theFriendsof Dulwich Picture Gallery organization is reaching andattractingnewandmorediversevisitors,increasinginterestand involvement in, and ultimately revenue for, DulwichPictureGallery.

Booth5�Science Now, Science Everywhere: Interact and Learn More Using Your PhoneDenise Bressler, Gary Hetzel, and Kirk Rahusen, Liberty Science Center; and Kate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innova-tion, USA

On December 22, 2007, Liberty Science Center (LSC)unveiledtextingasanewwaytointeractwithourexhibits.OurintentionistoextendthelearningexperiencebeyondthewallsofthemuseumbyprovidingURLsforvisitorstoviewaftertheirvisit.

Museums and the WebSave the Date!

MW2009: April 15-18, 2009Indianapolis, Indiana, USA at the Hyatt Regency

MW2010 : April 14-17, 2010Denver, Colorado, USA at the Grand Hyatt

MW2011 : April 6-9, 2011Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA at the Loews Hotel

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Designing for Young ChildrenChair:LiddyNevile,LaTrobeUniversity,Australia

Industrial Heritage, Memory, Preservation and ICT. ResultsGlòria Munilla, Laura Solanilla, Patricia Castellanos, Magda Martinez Daniel, and Elisa Ibáñez Anguera, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

TheMuseiaResearchGroupoftheOpenUniversityofCatalonia(Spain)andtheCatalanNationalMuseum of Science andTechnology have completed two joint research projects: the SocialPerceptionofScience,andtheKnowledgeandHeritageValueofGerridelaSal.TheKnowledgeandHeritageValueofGerridelaSalwasplannedfortheschool-agepublic.Itinvolvedthedesignof a seriesofeducational activities and teachingdossiersadapted to thedifferenteducationallevelsinterestedinexploringtheon-lineproducts.Theoutcomeofthe9-month-longevaluationprocessisseenintheseriesofinterestingresultsthatwepresenthere.

Bringing Cultural Heritage into Primary School Classrooms through Web Technology: The Milano Romana Tecnologica Case-StudyFranca Garzotto and Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TheprojectMilanoRomanaTecnologica(i.e.,MilanatthetimeoftheRomanEmpirepresentedthroughTechnology),wascarriedoutbyaclassroomof24pupils(K5) inMilan, Italy.Childrencombinedseveralactivities inaperiodof2months: theyvisitedtheArcheologicalMuseum intown;theysearchedforadditionalmaterialonthe Internetor intheschool library; theyshotpictures or made drawings when they could not find the proper visual documentation; theycreating narratives; they recorded MP3 audios….and finally, they developed a“multichannel”hyperstoryonRomanMilan,using“�00�stories.”Qualitativeevaluationsarereported.

Community EngagementChair:MadeleineLafaille,CanadianHeritageInformationNetwork(CHIN),Canada

Seeing Tibetan Art through Social TagsShelley Mannion, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Mostcurrenteffortsinsocialtaggingbymuseumsfocusonhowtoimprovepublicaccesstoon-linecollections. Indeed,tagsdosupplementexistingdocumentationbyprovidinganalternativevocabularytodescribeworksofart.Butwhatcantagstellusabouthowimagesareperceived?Are the same images perceived differently by viewers from diverse cultures?This study iscollectingtagsonTibetanartworksfromTibetansandWesternersinSwitzerlandandNewYorkonacustomizedsteveinstallation.

Breaking Apart Participation in MuseumsMariana Salgado, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland

Thispaperpresentsandcomparesinteractivedesignpiecesthatintendtomotivatevisitorstoparticipateinco-creatingthemessageofthemuseumbyleavingin-depthcommentaries.Designoptionsarechosenasparametersforcomparisonbecausetheyaffectparticipationandthereforethemuseumvisitexperience.Thedesignoptionsrelatetothethemechosen forparticipationandhowopenlythisthemeispresented,aswellastheatmosphereofthepiece,theinput-outputmodalities,theon-siteoron-floorconfigurations,theaccessibilityandthetieswiththetimeofthevisitandwiththelargercommunity.

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The Reciprocal Research NetworkLee Iverson, Susan Rowley, Ryan Wallace, Nicholas Jakobsen, and Ulrike Radermacher, University of British Columbia; Leona Sparrow, Musqueam Indian Band; Dave Schaepe, Stó:lō Research and Resource Management; and Andrea Sanborn, U’mista Cultural Society, Canada

The Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) is an open-source,Web-based, federated museuminformation system intended to provide FirstNations, researchers andmuseumprofessionalswithinteractiveaccesstoworldwidecollectionsofNorthwestCoastandBritishColumbiaFirstNations’culturalheritage.Collaborativetoolsbuiltwithinasocialnetworkingenvironmentwillprovideuserswiththeabilitytocarryoutindividualand/orcollaborativeresearchprojects.TheoverallgoaloftheRRNistore-connectobjects,people,land,languages,andtraditionsculturallyandhistoricallysignificanttoFirstNationscommunityresearchers,andtocreateacollaborative,reciprocal,andinclusiveenvironmentinwhichtoexploremuseumcollectionsofFirstNations’culturalheritage.

SearchChair:BrianKelly,UniversityofBath,UnitedKingdom

The National Museums Online Learning Project Federated Collections Search: Searching Across Museum And Gallery Collections In An Integrated FashionTerry Makewell, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom

TheNationalMuseumsOnlineLearningProjecthasbeendevelopedbyaconsortiumofnationalmuseumsandgallerieswithintheUKandisa3-yearprojectfundedbyTreasury.ThepurposeoftheprojectistogetthevastamountofcontentalreadyonthesenationalmuseumandgalleryWebsitesbetterusedthroughthecreationofon-lineresources.Theenablingofend-userstoefficientlysearchacrossthepartnercollectionswasdeemedcrucialfortheseon-lineresources.Thispaperaddressesthequestionsaroundthesetypesoffederatedsearchinganddebatesthemodelsandpossiblesolutionsforthesector.

Approaches To Presentation Of Cultural Heritage Information In The Alm-area In Denmark And ScandinaviaJohan Møhlenfeldt Jensen, Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark

Duringthelastfewyearsanumberofprojectscombiningmaterialsfromarchives,librariesandmuseums have been initiated in Denmark and Scandinavia, using different new technologies,including mind-mapping, topic maps and other similar technologies, to present material ininnovative and immediately accessibleways.Thispaperdescribes andanalyzes theapproachesunderlying the different projects and the resulting differences in user experience. It analysesadvantagesanddrawbacksofthespecificsolutionsonabackgroundofuserreactionsinordertoglimpseapatternintheinterplaybetweenthechoicesmadeandthegroupsofusersthatprefereachofthesites.

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E-mail and Speaker Prep 8:00am–3:30pmSt. Michel

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Designing with TeensChair:Anne-MarieMillner,CanadianHeritageInformationNetwork(CHIN),Canada

ArtPad: Here’s the collection – Did we make a connection?Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, and Melanie Kjorlien, The House of Invention, Canada

TheWebsiteArtPad:ACollection.AConnectionhasambitiousgoals.Atitscoreistheon-linepresentationofworksfromtheGlenbowMuseum’scontemporaryartcollection,anexceptionalcollectionthatisnotoftenpresentedtothepublic.Thispaperwillfocusontheuserevaluationprocessemployedtodevelopthesite, the featuresandcomponentsdevelopedspecifically forthetargetaudience,andtheWeb2.0componentsusedtocreateandbuilddiscussionaroundcontemporaryartpractice.ArtPaddispenseswiththetraditionalcuratorialstance–thatofoneauthoritativevoice–andinsteadopensthediscoursetousers.Thiscuratorialview,userstatisticsandfeedback,andresponsesandreactionsfromartistsfeaturedonthesitewillalsobeaddressedinthepaper.

Expressing Diverse Institutional Identities Through Web 2.0Cynthia Graville-Smith, Saint Louis Science Center, USA

This paper examines digital outreach efforts by the School and Community PartnershipsDepartmentoftheSaintLouisScienceCenter(SLSC.)Thedepartment’swork iscenteredonYouthExploringScience(YES),anextensivework-basedscienceoutreachprogramtargetedtourbanyouthfacingmultipleriskfactors.‘Web2.0’hasservedasafacilitatoroftheYESprogramandparticipants’identitytobothinternalandexternalaudiences.

Teens Connect to Art and Each Other at u.l.k.: Statens Museum for Kunst embraces user-created content and social networking on its new site for teensAnne Tessing Skovbo Nielsen and Tine Nygaard, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark, Ethan Wilde, Mediatrope, USA

AtStatensMuseumforKunst(SMK),theDanishnationalgallery,wewantedtoreachateenageaudience. Our assumption was that if we truly wanted to engage this difficult – very elusive,everchanging,andperfidious–agegroupindealingwithart,wehadtoinvitethemtobeactivepartnersincreatingthisnewinitiativeaswellasinrunningitwhenlaunched.Wewantedtoletyoungpeopledecodeart for theirpeers.The resultwas anewart communityon-site in themuseumandon-line for teensage�2-20.Wecalled itu.l.k. (inDanishu.l.k. is anabbreviationforYoungPeoples’LaboratoriesforArt).Thispaperevaluatestheworkdonetogetherwiththeteenagers,withaspecialfocusoncreatingtheWebsite.Thepaperrepresentstheoutcomesoffocusgroups,interviews,usabilitytests,aswellaslogfileanalysis.Wediscusswhatwe’velearned,howthecommunityontheWebsitehasdevelopedsincethelaunch,andwhatourperspectivesonthefutureare.

From Boring and Non-Offensive to Dancing Unicorns and Glitter Text: How to Create a Teen Web Site with TeenagersWitt Siasoco and Justin Heideman, Walker Art Center, USA

Formorethan�5years,theWalkerArtCenterTeenArtsCouncil(WACTAC)hasbeenasuccessfulmodelforengagingteenagersthroughcontemporaryartandartists.Uponexaminingtheiron-linepresence, teens.walkerart.org,WACTACbecame increasinglydissatisfiedwiththecontent,datedinterface,andstagnantnatureofthesite.InMarch2007,WACTACandtheWalker’sNewMediaandEducationdepartmentscollaboratedtodesignandimplementaWebsitethatallowsteenagerstocreatetheirowncontentusingreadilyavailablesocialnetworkingapplications.Inthispaperwewillexaminetheprocessofdevelopingasitethatbalancestheneedsofaninstitutionandthedesiresofitsteenageusers.

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Semantic SearchChair:NancyProctor,SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,USA

Contexta/SR: A multi-institutional semantic integration platformHernan Astudillo, Claudia Andrea López Moncada, Pablo Inostroza, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

Contexta/SRisaplatformunderconstructiontoprovideuniformandunifiedaccesstodigitalrepositoriesbelongingtoARPA,amulti-institutionalmuseum-andarchive-consortiuminValparaiso,Chile.Theoriginalmotivationistobringon-lineandconnectexistingisolatedheritagecollections,to incorporate them into tourism and education initiatives. Participating repositories may bephysicallyscatteredandmayhavedifferentpolicies forrole-basedaccess, intellectualproperty,bandwidthmanagement,andsoon;thesedifferencesareactivelymanaged.Digitalcontentscanbequeriedandexploredasaunifiedcollection,usingthreeglobalsemanticcontextsthatthesystemmaintains:of theartifactsthemselves,of theirdigitalrenderings,andof thecircumstancesthattheyarewitnessto.Usersandproviderskeeptheirowncontexts,andthesystemcanformulatepersonalizedrecommendationsbasedonprofiles,history,nearness,andothercriteria.

The Delphi Toolkit: Enabling Semantic Search for Museum CollectionsPatrick Schmitz, University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Black, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, USA

WedescribetheDelphi frameworkofsemantictoolsandcommunityannotation formuseumcollections.Thetoolkitincludeslinguisticanalysistools,andservicesthatproduceaneasy-to-usefacetedbrowsinguser interface (UI) thatmakes it simple and fun toexplore andunderstandmuseumcollections.Personalizationandsocialmediatoolsallowcreationandsharingoffavoritesetsofobjects.Thetoolsabstractthecoretechnologies,andsocanbeusedbydesignersandinformationarchitectswithoutrequiringspecializedtechnicalknowledge.WedeployedDelphiforthelargecollectionsatthePhoebeA.HearstMuseumofAnthropologywithgoodsuccess.Wedescribeourexperiencewiththisdeploymentandlessonslearnedalongtheway.WeexplainthemajorcomponentsoftheDelphiopensourcetoolkit,andwediscussongoingresearchthatbuildsupontheplatform.

Coffee Break

Closing PlenaryChair:JenniferTrant,Archives&MuseumInformatics

Reflections on Museums and the Web 2008Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, USA

Formany yearsCliffordLynchhasbeen at the centerof networked information initiatives intheacademicand librarycommunities.AsExecutiveDirectorof theCoalition forNetworkedInformationhehasdevelopedaunique,syntheticperspectivethatbringstogetherabroadrangeofconcernsaboutnetworksandconnectivity:technological,institutional,contentandpersonal.Cliffordwillofferasummationofkeyissueshe’shearddiscussed–andoverlooked–atMuseumsandtheWeb2008,andsetthestageforclosingreflectionsfromdelegates.

�:30pm–3:00pmWestmount

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Museums and the Web 2009April 15-18, 2009Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Call For Participationhttp: / /www.archimuse.com /mw2009 /

ApplicationsWireless + Geo-awareVisitor Support On-site + On-lineSchools + Educational ProgramsE-commerce for Museums

Technical and Design IssuesAPIs and ProtocolsInterface + Design ParadigmsTools + MethodsManaging Content + Metadata

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Museum 2.0 / 3.0 ServicesPodcasting + BloggingRSS + WikisSocial Tagging + Folksonomy,Museum MashupsSemantic Web

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Session FormatsChoose the right presentation format for your proposal. Even the best ideas can be rejected if proposed for an inappropriate venue.

Research?Propose a Paper, to be given in a formal session with other papers and discussionCase Study? Present a Paper or a Demonstration, depending on whether you wish to emphasize generalizability (a paper), or your specific case (a demo)Methods and Techniques?Teach others in a Pre-conference Workshops (full or half-day) or Mini-workshop (1 hr)Debate or Problem Statement?Engage colleagues in a Professional ForumProduct to Show? Propose an Exhibit (commercial) or Demonstration (non-commercial) Performance? Interaction? Service? Propose any other format of participation + explain how it works.

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DeadlinesSeptember 30, 2008 for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 30, 2009)December 31, 2008 for demonstrations (written paper optional)

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Social Issues and ImpactBuilding CommunitiesPublic Content CreationOn-going Engagement

Organizational StrategiesOpen Source ArchitecturesMulti-Institutional VenturesFacilitating Institutional ChangeSustainability

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Further Details?For more information contact the MW2009 Conference Co-ChairsDavid Bearman + Jennifer Trant by e-mail: [email protected]

Watch http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ for on-line proposal submission,program details, and registration information.

All proposals are subject to critical peer review by an International Program Committee.

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The MW program is built from the ground up, from your suggestions. Submissions are welcome on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating or delivering culture, science and heritage on-line. Themes for 2009 include:

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