Paul F. Marty is Assistant Professor in the College of Information at Florida State University. He has a background in ancient history and computer science engineering, and his Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before arriving at FSU, he was Director of Information Technology at the University of Illinois’ Spurlock Museum.
The Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship is pleased to announce that, effective Fall 2008, a new and permanent section of each issue will be devoted to the topic of Digital Heritage. This new section will feature peer-reviewed articles — as well as notes, comments, discussions, reviews, and reports — covering research related to the [...]
While this may not be news to some of our bloggers — check the faculty page to see why! — it certainly is exciting for us all to learn that the new Museum Studies degree program (available almost entirely online) has been approved at Johns Hopkins!! “The aim of this program is to provide a [...]
An interesting project from Carnegie Mellon! “About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. [...] What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.” http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html I wonder if Musematic could participate? Best, –Paul
“Gone are the days when visitors are happy looking at animals and matching them with the information on the sign boards.” http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKSIN15180520070523 Excellent! –Paul
New version of SPECTRUM available: http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm
Interesting article in the Times Online today discussing how the “world’s cultural icons are blighted by hordes of tourists.” Saying that “Increasingly the choice is between risking a work’s survival and letting it be seen,” the author concludes by saying that museums may have no choice but to implement the same sort of solutions as [...]
Some of you may have seen in the news recently that ICANN unanimously voted to remove the top-level domain .um (created for “a collection of uninhabited islands, claimed by the US under the Guano Act of 1856“) from the list of available domains. My immediate thought upon reading this news matched David Utter’s comments in [...]
I just received my AAM 2007 presenter information in the mail, and once again I’m struck by how often people use complete gibberish when writing about information technology. The “Presenter Agreement” carefully explains that the AAM will be producing a “multi-media CD-ROM” of the sessions featuring live audio recordings and presentation materials. The explanation includes [...]
Happy new year all! One of the things I’ve been working on over the winter “break” is writing up the results from an international survey I administered last year to nearly 1500 visitors at nine different online museums. The survey questions focused on how museum professionals can encourage their visitors to form lifelong relationships with [...]
It’s not often that cuneiform tablets are in the news these days, so I’ve “enjoyed” following the recent articles about the disputed 2500-year-old Persian tablets at the University of Chicago. This is a long standing problem, of course, and I don’t really want to get into the various legal and political arguments. However, the points [...]
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