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 9th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the third paper ‘The API as Curator’ by Aaron Straup Cope in the Theoretical Frameworks session chaired by Darren Peacock at Museums and the Web 2008. The slides for The API as Curator are online.I’ve also included below some further notes on why,
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May 8th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the second paper, ‘Who has the responsibility for saying what we see? mashing up Museum and Visitor voices, on-site and online’ by Peter Samis in the Theoretical Frameworks session chaired by Darren Peacock at Museums and the Web 2008.The other session papers
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April 17th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
You might be interested in BathCamp - a bar camp in Bath on a Saturday (with overnight stay) in late August. This is an initial open call so head along to the website (BathCamp) and check it out. Ideally you would have an interest in cultural heritage content, audiences
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April 12th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
There’s an almost-live report from Mike Ellis and Brian Kelly’s “What Does Openness Mean to The Museum Community?” forum at the Museums and the Web conference yesterday at http://mw2008.wetpaint.com/page/reportIt’s a really important discussion and as it’s a wiki I assume you can add comments. I am running late for a
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April 11th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the Advanced Web Development: software strategies for online applications workshop with Rob Stein, Charles Moad and Edward Bachta from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Museums and the Web 2008 (MW2008) in Montreal. I don’t know if they’ll be useful for anyone else, but if
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April 2nd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Museums Computer Group is interested in canvassing a wide range of views. If you’re not a member but work in a relevant field, we’d be interested to hear about why you’re not a member, and of course if you’re a member we’d love to hear about how we can
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