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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September 14th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
the fall travel season is starting up again, and we’re in Europe this week and next presenting research results from the steve.museum project. watch for the following:
Public and professional vocabularies: comparing user tagging with museum documents and documentation
The 7th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the 12th ECDL Conference,…
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July 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Our collection is going online and this is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Although we have some clean up to do and we won’t be layering this feature into our website until early next week, if you are reading the blog you can catch a preview
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June 18th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA were announced yesterday, and steve.museum received an honorary mention in the Digital Communities category.
If you don’t know these awards, they are always worth a look. The participants come from worlds – like interactive art and hybrid art and digital music – that are often parallel to museum…
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May 28th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
steve.museum has released enhancements to the steve tagger. you can now:
share images and tags
invite others to participate, and
display your tagged works on a Facebook profile pages, invite FB friends to tag, and see the most popular tagged works of art.
the steve tagger is at http://tagger.steve.museum. please create an account…
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May 21st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
When most of us think of tuna, we think of the can. Maybe we remember “Charlie Tuna” from the old commercials. What many people don’t realize is that these amazing animals are at the pinnacle of fish evolution. Tuna are capable of covering vast distances, traversing the entire Pacific Ocean in
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, TV, Environment, fishing, ocean, tagging, map, tuna | Comments Off
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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Read the full post at Open Objects
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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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Read the full post at Open Objects
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April 19th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
A comment Seb left on Nate’s blog post about “master” metadata got me thinking about cognitive dissonance and whether museums who say they’re open to public participation and content really act as if they are. Are we providing a Clayton’s call for audience participation?If what you do - raise
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