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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June 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
After the Mashed Museum Day at Leicester, I was inspired to try tagging the Scheme’s blogs via the OpenCalais service provided by Reuters (incidentally, the Chairman of our Trustees is rather high up there….) This was done with two plugins created by Dan Grossman:
WP Calais Archive Tagger
WP Calais Auto Tagger
Both of…
Read the full post at Portable Antiquities
Posted in museums, web, Dan Grossman, Department of Archaeology, Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure, Sydney, Jim O'Donnell, Reuters, web interface | Comments Off
June 13th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Several recent conferences have included sessions on image licensing, spurring discussions as to whether licensing images can be profitable or at least self-sustaining. This seems to be especially of interest in the museum world, where some imagine great returns, even as others are emphasizing the value of setting the images free.
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Read the full post at Hanging Together
Posted in museums, Libraries, Modeling new services | Comments Off
June 10th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
More About YouTube
Museums are starting their own channels on YouTube in ever greater numbers. At this session we heard about how MoMA, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn, the Exploratorium, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) had a variety of goals in mind when they created their channels.
The…
Read the full post at mediacombo blog
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June 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
A side benefit of the boom has been a stream of new books on the business of art. Given the lack of independently verifiable data, especially about the gallery trade, these books usually promise more than they can deliver. Don Thompson’s The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Art
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Read the full post at Artworld Salon
Posted in museums, Events, Collecting, Arts Administration, Fairs, Auctions, Galleries | Comments Off
June 5th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
So, a few months ago, I wrote a blog listing my “art crushes.” From art critics to museum directors, I bared my soul to the arts world. Michael Kimmelman, Tyler Green, Will Gompertz, Kathy Halbreich, and Phillippe de Montebello, I still love you all, but I’m afraid I’ve forever ruined my
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Read the full post at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
Posted in museums, Tyler Green, Michael Kimmelman, Friday Kahlo, Golf, Jeff Koons, Kathy Halbreich, SFMoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Phillippe de Montebello, Mini Golf, Walker Art Center | Comments Off
May 22nd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
[note that this event is not associated with Museums and the Web or Archives & Museum Informatics;
it is produced by the UK Museum Computer Group]
UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008
19 June 2008
Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester [campus map]
Online registration now open
View on upcoming.org
organised by the Museums…
Read the full post at museums and the web on-line
Posted in museums, conference, uk, united kingdom | Comments Off
May 17th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
A lot of rumbling about the noise created by the (social) web has been reaching our ears recently. I’m not in this instance talking about the management of “outgoing” social media but more about how people deal with the sheer quantity of stuff which is arriving through various channels. The news
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Read the full post at electronic museum
Posted in museums, noise, social web | Comments Off
April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The MUSE awards were announced at AAM this week, and the list represents an interesting overview of museum technology activity.
Here’s a project that wasn’t recognised [something that surprised me a bit]: The milti-touch tables at the Denver Art Museum.
What else did the awards miss?
/jt …
Read the full post at museums and the web on-line
Posted in museums, Technology, interactive, multitouch, musuems, table | Comments Off
