Museums meet the 21st century@mia_out

Museums meet the 21st century@mia_out

Alternative titles included: “18th century institutions WLTM 21st century for mutual benefit, good times”; “The Age of Enlightenment meets the Age of Participation”.

Alternative titles included: “18th century institutions WLTM 21st century for mutual benefit, good times”; “The Age of Enlightenment meets the Age of Participation”.

'Museums collaborating with the public - new opportunities for

engagement?'

Yes, please.

“The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else” - but that doesn’t mean they’ll know how to build it

Work on things that matter? Help Work on things that matter? Help museums explore new territory...museums explore new territory...Work on things that matter? Help Work on things that matter? Help museums explore new territory...museums explore new territory...

Which comes first?Which comes first?

If there’s no demand for it, it won’t happen

Nick Poole, Chief Executive, Collections Trust: "most museum people I speak to tend not to

prioritise aggregation and open interoperability because there is not yet a clear use case for it, nor are there enough aggregators with enough critical mass to justify it.”

Cosmic Collections

Questions...Questions... If we built an API, would anyone use it?If we built an API, would anyone use it?CCan you really crowdsource the creation of collections an you really crowdsource the creation of collections interfaces?interfaces?

““More of this kind of thing! Museums are supposed to More of this kind of thing! Museums are supposed to be publically accessible resources for the enrichment be publically accessible resources for the enrichment and education of humanity. Their knowledge and data and education of humanity. Their knowledge and data should be too and this was a great step!" should be too and this was a great step!"

"giving a tough-to-reach community real ownership of "giving a tough-to-reach community real ownership of the museum project"the museum project"

"The very idea of the "The very idea of the competition was competition was

awesome" awesome"

Back here again...Back here again...

Explore with usExplore with us

Tell us what you wantTell us what you want

Dragons we have faced...

The network effect

• Open data can help bridge gaps in collections• Shared data standards should lead to more data

being used

• Is aggregration the way forward?

Reasons to be patient...Reasons to be patient...

Join in?Join in?

• Museums Computer Group – events, mailing list http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/

• Linking Museums – meetups, practical examples, experimenting with machine-readable data http://museum-api.pbworks.com/

• #spacetimecamp• ‘Museums and the Web’ conference papers

online

• Museums Computer Group – events, mailing list http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/

• Linking Museums – meetups, practical examples, experimenting with machine-readable data http://museum-api.pbworks.com/

• #spacetimecamp• ‘Museums and the Web’ conference papers

online

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