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
This is a good summary of why content that has meaning to other computers (is machine-readable in an intelligent sense) is useful: Microformats and accessibility - a request for help:The web is a wonderful place for humans but it’s a less friendly place for machines. When we read a web page
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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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April 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
If you’re interested in another perspective on dealing with user-generated tags or metadata, this blog post from last.fm, Fingerprinting and Metadata Progress Report talks about how they’re trying to create ‘order from chaos’:So far our fingerprint server identified 23 million unique tracks, from the 650 million fingerprint requests you’ve thrown at it.
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April 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
If you’re interested in another perspective on dealing with user-generated tags or metadata, this blog post from last.fm, Fingerprinting and Metadata Progress Report talks about how they’re trying to create ‘order from chaos’:So far our fingerprint server identified 23 million unique tracks, from the 650 million fingerprint requests you’ve thrown at
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March 28th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Digital Projects Manager will be responsible for overall planning and management of projects related to the Library’s digital collection. He/she will perform detailed analysis of digitization and digital collection projects. Analysis includes functional needs assessment and requirements specification for new digital collections; specification of workflows
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Posted in metadata, botanical garden, consultant, contract, digital projects manager, digitization, New york, project management | Comments Off
March 27th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Some random doodling about the possibilities of using the functionalities of an OAI repository as an API lead me to information about metadata repositories, harvesting and edna (Education Network Australia, ‘ Australia’s free online network for educators’).In linked document, Harvesting Overview, they state: “In addition, the edna search API is embedded
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