About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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May 21st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
What seems like a looong time ago I came up with an idea for “bootstrapping” the Non API Web (NAW), particularly around extracting un-structured content from (museum) collections pages.
The idea of scraping pages when there’s a lack of data access API isn’t new: Dapper launched a couple of years ago with
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Posted in api, collections, Application programming interface, data, Data Warehousing, Databases, hoardit, JSON, linked data, NAW, objects, science museum, semantic, Web page, World Wide Web | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the session ‘Aggregating Museum Data – Use Issues’ at Museums and the Web, Montreal, April 2008.These notes are pretty rough so apologies for any mistakes; I hope they’re a bit useful to people, even though it’s so late after the event. I’ve tried to include
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Posted in cultural content, metadata, collections, experimental, geo-tagging, Catalhoyuk, semantic web, data visualisation | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Dr Klaus Werner has been working with Intelligent Cultural Resources Information Management (ICRIM) on connecting repositories or information silos from “different cultural heritage organizations – museums, superintendencies, environmental and architectural heritage
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Posted in cultural content, repositories, metadata, search, collections, connected collections | Comments Off
April 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the first paper, ‘Object-Orientated Democracies: Contradictions, Challenges And Opportunities’ in the Theoretical Frameworks session chaired by Darren Peacock at Museums and the Web 2008. I’ll post the others later because the ‘real world’ is calling me to a 30th now.I didn’t blog these at the
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Posted in museums, mw2008, digital objects, organisational resistance, collections, collections management, Catalhoyuk | Comments Off
April 11th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Two hungry museum professionals (Boston, Amsterdam) looking for a discussion on archives and collections. Reward: ice cream and a friendly conversation. Anyone?
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Posted in archives, collections, ice cream | Comments Off
March 12th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps, established March 31, 1933. Curator Matt Anderson commemorates the occasion with a look at CCC pieces in the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection. (4 min. 32 sec. / 11.7 MB)
The CCC is a focus of the Minnesota’s Greatest Generation project. Visit
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