About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings. 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
All of the posts are from the RSS feeds of the blogs included in the directory. The large number of categories come directly from the individual blogs. We developed the "AutoAggregator" to bring in these feeds and create the short postings that you see.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're an interactive design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. (See our portfolio to learn more about what we do.) The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we conducted an informal survey museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. In 2007, Ideum and Powerhouse Museum conducted the first comprehensive museum blog survey for the Museums and the Web conference. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase the community's awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept advertising.
Contact
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, contact us
Hide This
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
…
Read the full post at Open Objects
Posted in cultural content, repositories, metadata, search, collections, connected collections | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the workshop Everything RSS with Jim Spadaccini from Ideum at Museums and the Web, Montreal, April 2008. Some of my notes will seem self-evident to various geeks or non-geeks but I’ve tried to include most of what was covered.It’s taken me a while to
…
Read the full post at Open Objects
Posted in programming | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Using a ImageJ, a free software available for download, people all over the world can still participate in the Albedo Experiment even if they are not a partner institution. By comparing the brightness of two photos of the same spot, an estimate of the amount of light reflected by an area
…
Read the full post at IGLO - International Action on Global Warming
Posted in | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Using ImageJ, a free software available for download, people all over the world can still participate in the Albedo Experiment even if they are not a partner institution. By comparing the brightness of two photos of the same spot, an estimate of the amount of light reflected by an area can
…
Read the full post at IGLO - International Action on Global Warming
Posted in | Comments Off
May 15th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Our New Arrival!
Congratulations to our Aquarist, Glen Decker! He is now the proud parent…
…
Read the full post at Bay Area Discovery Museum Blog
Posted in | Comments Off
May 15th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Thank you to Connor Fitzpatrick for today’s write-up. Just a small update re: Connor — he completed his work-study position here at the garden a couple weeks ago, and moved on to a summer job in Alberta. Best of luck to him! Connor writes:
Today’s Botany Photo of the Day features a…
Read the full post at Botany Photo of the Day
Posted in | Comments Off
May 15th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
From the About page of the Data-PASS site:
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family
…
Read the full post at The Ten Thousand Year Blog
Posted in Science, Digital Preservation, History Findings | Comments Off
May 15th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I’ve been reading the same book for 2 years. Yep, that’s right. I may have all kinds of other commitment issues in my life, but when it comes to books, I’m in it for the long haul. Sure I’ve read other books along the way. Books that are way more entertaining.
…
Read the full post at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
Posted in Art History, Art in Theory, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kimmelman, Robert Rauschenberg | Comments Off