Just wanted to announce that the 2011 Horizon Report>Museum Edition has gone to press (and was officially launched at MCN in Atlanta last week). Follow this link to a page where you can a) download the report, or b) watch a >4 minute video which gives a brief overview of the six technologies featured in [...]
The Museum of Photographic Arts was fortunate to receive a large grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to implement a multi-touch screen device and interface for an upcoming exhibition. Through our partnerships we were able to get two students from the University of California, San Diego to develop the interface for us. [...]
One of the really cool and exciting things about the rise of the mobile platform is that, by definition, they can be used almost anywhere. This greatly impacts the scale and scope of educational opportunities for organizations looking to get their programs (literally) into the hands of a curious public. So imagine the opportunities for [...]
From “ReadWriteWeb” last Saturday (I’m behind on my newsletters because our old router at home gave up the ghost) so here’s an article entitled: “If you’ve never heard of pinterest you’re a bigh dork.” Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site used primarily by women–user-generated content curation in another sphere. Check it out.
In early 2011, the Museum of Photographic Arts decided to integrate iPads into the galleries. Our first exhibition to feature the iPads, Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography, used them to present rare books from our library collection. With the help of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, we used HTML and an app called wKiosk to [...]
At the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, most of our projects share one key objective: leveraging resources. For websites we standardized the CMS platform and deployed 20 websites in 2 years with 3 developers. For digitization we created shared studios and digitized 160,000 images, videos, films and slides and got them online in 18 months. And [...]
At some point in your life you may have incorporated into your vocabulary some child’s phrase that struck you (at the time) as particularly compelling or appropriate for the situation. Almost ten years ago we were on vacation with some good friends, staying in a cabin, in a state park. Two and 1/2 year old, [...]
If you, like me, are spending time these days thinking about scholarly publishing then you will want to read the report issued earlier this month by the Association of American University Presses entitled “Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses.” I’ve created a link to the page where you can download the report, [...]
Great article in today’s (March 8, 2011) Inside Higher Ed. “Twitter Fortifies Nest” discusses how recent changes in the Twitter API may make it more difficult for interested scholars to (I stole this next bit from the article) access the “valuable trove containing shreds of the collective diary of 21st-century humanity.” Anyway, if you are [...]
With technology, it’s often easy to forget that there’s a much easier way to do something than relying on the latest scripts or gadgets. This is a story of creating a gallery iPad kiosk.
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