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UK Museums on the Web 2011: The innovative museum: creating a brighter future

mia — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:56:03 +0000

Date: 24 November 2011

Pre-UKMW11 networking and drinks event, the Marlborough Arms, 36 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HJ from 5.30pm.

Date: 25 November 2011

Venue: IWM London (find out how to get to IWM London)

Tickets for UKMW11 are now on sale at http://ukmw11.eventbrite.com.

The annual UKMW conferences, convened by the Museums Computer Group, have long been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today. As the UK heritage sector continues to live through difficult times, this year’s conference is an opportunity to reflect on the new landscape museums are now in, learn from inspiring speakers and network with your peers.

As the MCG’s Spring Meeting in Brighton showed, a renewed emphasis on partnerships inside and outside the sector will continue to challenge museums to be more flexible in their working practices. Sharing the stories of our successes and learning to discuss failures constructively is more important than ever before. The conference will frame solutions for the issues affecting the museum sector, and feature positive case studies with actionable lessons.

We’re excited to announce that our keynote speaker is Mark O’Neill (formerly CIO at the Department of Media, Culture and Sport), founder and leader of the UK Government’s ‘Skunkworks’, which brings together developers and government in an innovative, collaborative, agile space.

To be held at the Imperial War Museum in London on 25 November 2011, the conference will also include inspiring and practical sessions on getting projects right from the start, redefining success and designing for the future.

By remaining in touch with the leading edge of research, the politics of policy, as well as the day-to-day realities of professional work, UKMW continues to appeal to practitioners and academics, technologists and curators, policy makers and the commercial sector – with over 100 delegates from across the sector attending each year. And the event has built a reputation for the calibre of its speakers, the affordability and accessibility of its content, as well as the focus of its debate.

We’ll keep this page updated as speakers are announced, and will include details of the schedule for the day and the AGM.

Time
9.15-9.45	Registration with tea and coffee
9.45-10.00	Welcome: Ross Parry, Chair, MCG and Carolyn Royston, Head of New Media, IWM
10.00-10.30	Keynote: Mark O’Neill, Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service “The chaos of memories” – why we never learn from our corporate experience and how we can change that Mark will be asking the question ‘What’s the difference between museums and Ikea?’
10.30-11.30	Session 1: ‘Getting it right from the start’Chair: Ross Parry
	Peter Pavement, Surface Impression and Marc Steene, Pallant House Gallery‘Intensive collaboration between museum, developer and participants’ Pallant House Gallery, Chichester’s ‘Outside In’ project in 2006 offered opportunity to “outsider” artists – those marginalised by disability, health, social circumstances or because their work doesn’t fit a prescribed art norm. This case study will show how the project’s close involvement of all parties has really benefited quality, accessibility and engagement over the long term – and how the project has extended reach, profile and collaboration between heritage/art institutions.
‘	Claire Ross, UCL and Tom Grinsted, IWM‘Cultural Collaborative Exchange: Collections, Social Interpretation, Partnerships and Project Management’ Social Interpretation and ongoing Cultural Exchange (SICE) explores how social media models can be applied to museum collections and interpretation. The SICE Project, led by IWM, KI and UCL, utilises Agile project management principles and a user-centred approach to provide museum objects with profiles, social circles, crowdsourced comments, and community moderation tools, creating truly social, shared objects.
11.30–12.00	Tea and coffee
12.00–12.30	Session 2: ‘Redefining success’
	Jane Finnis, Culture24‘Let’s Get Real: How to Evaluate Online Success’ How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector – museums, archives, galleries, arts organisations, libraries and publishers. This presentation will bring the key findings and recommendation from the action research in which 24 organisations and agencies from across the cultural heritage and arts sector in the UK collaborated.
12.30-13.00	MCG AGM AGM Minutes 2010 – Museum of London AGM Agenda 2011 – Imperial War Museum
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	Open Mic It is a UKMW tradition to have an energising session in the day where, through a series of super short ‘micro presentations’, members from the floor have just 4 minutes to update on a project, call for partners, pitch an idea, ask for support, highlight a new initiative, or just contribute to the event and the life of the MCG more widely. (Details on the ‘Open Mic’ slot will be advertised closer to the event.)
14.30-15.30	Session 3: ‘Designing for the future’Chair: Carolyn Royston
	Alex Bromley, Rhiannon Looseley and Matthew Rose, Museum of London ‘Integrating collections data to build sustainable online resources’ Collections Online launched earlier this year, the first stage of a large-scale project to overhaul the way that online collections resources are created and managed at the Museum of London. Key to the project was the specification and commissioning of a CIIM (Collections Information Integration Module). The CIIM pulls data from the Museum’s collections management system and other data repositories,allowing staff to augment and customise it for a variety of different outputs. This paper will look at the ‘hows’ and whys’ of COllections Online and the CIIM, it will use the new Picturebank for schools as a case study of the kinds of outputs the CIIM makes possible and will then share some of the quality assurance procedures and data standards that are essential to making projects like these sustainable and making the data in the CIIM re-usable for the future.
	Luke Smith and Giv Parveneh, IWM‘Lives of the Great War: Building First World War life stories across archives through crowdsourcing’ Lives of the Great War is a ground breaking online and broadcast project to allow millions worldwide to work together piecing together the life stories of those who lived and died during the First World War. This paper will provide an overview of the project and explore the technical challenges and currently identified system components.
15.30-16.00	Tea and coffee
16.00-17.00	Session 3 continued: ‘Designing for the future’Chair: Mia Ridge
	Seth van Hooland and Max De Wilde, Université Libre de Bruxelles Information and Communication Science Department Ruben Verborgh and Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University, IBBT, ELIS – Multimedia Lab Johannes Hercher, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam ‘Bringing your collection into the Linked Data cloud: how to use Google Refine to get more out of your metadata’ This paper will focus on reconciliation, the process of mapping domain specific vocabulary to another (often more commonly used) vocabulary that is part of the Semantic Web. This means the metadata is then available to the Linked Data Cloud. This paper aims to examine the feasibility of using subject vocabularies as linking hub to the Semantic Web.
	Joe Padfield, National Gallery‘Presenting and Referencing High Resolution Images on the Web’ How many times have we been presented with a phrase like, “.. as you can see from the detail, figure …”, and then been unable to clearly distinguish important features because the printed detail was too small? This paper will introduce an example system demonstrating the possibility of linking traditional or web-based publication to live high resolution images as one might reference other articles or publications.
17.00-17.15	Jon Pratty, Arts Council EnglandNews of recent ACE digital funding opportunities; including more info about a new ‘pop-up’ IPTV arts channel for 2012 and progress of the NESTA digital R&D fund.
17.15-17.30	Wrap-up and close

It is a UKMW tradition to have an energising session in the day where, through a series of super short ‘micro presentations’, members from the floor have just 4 minutes to update on a project, call for partners, pitch an idea, ask for support, highlight a new initiative, or just contribute to the event and the life of the MCG more widely. (Details on the ‘Open Mic’ slot will be advertised closer to the event.)

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UK Museums on the Web 2009: The everyday web: situated, sensory, social

mia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:55:08 +0000

Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A, London

Fully booked!

For over five years the annual UKMW conferences have been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today.

The Sackler Centre

By remaining in touch with the leading edge of research, the politics of policy, as well as the day-to-day realities of professional work, UKMW continues to appeal to practitioners and academics, technologists and curators, policy makers and the commercial sector. And the event has built a reputation for the caliber of its speakers, the accessibility of its content, and the focus of its debate.

As museums’ activity online continues to be drawn into the power and possibility of the social Web (of networking and user-generated content) and the machine Web (of semantics and APIs), this year’s conference takes us back to the everyday, sensory and ubiquitous experience and encounters of online content.

Today, the Web is becoming increasingly a more multi-sensory place, with new visual interfaces, rich sound content, where content can adapt to our physical location, and even where interactions can be triggered by bodily movement. Likewise, software and services (just like our content) can today move with us.

This year UKMW will look at digital heritage in the everyday – situated, sensory, social.

Programme

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AGM 2009 – Agenda

mia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:20:35 +0000

Wednesday 2 December 2009
Sackler Centre for Arts Education, Cromwell Road London
PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Minutes of the last AGM at the London Transport Museum 19NOV2009
Apologies for absence
Report from the Chair – Ross Parry
Finance Report – Angus Kneale
Constitutional ChangesConsider a proposal for a new constitution which, amongst other things, revises membership arrangements and committee structure to reflect the results of the MCG@25 consultation.
Questions from the Floor
Committee Elections

The current committee members are :
Chair
Ross PARRY (2011)
Secretary
Dave PATTEN (2011
Treasurer
Angus KNEALE (2009)
Membership Secretary
John WILLIAMS (2009)
Ordinary Members
Gemma STURTBRIDGE (2011)
Jerry WEBER (2011)
Linda SPURDLE (2011)
Linda ELLIS (2010)
Angelina ROUSSOU (2011)
Jon Pratty (2009)
Rhiannon LOOSELEY (2011)
Ashley HARPER (2011)Web Managers
Mike ELLIS (2010)
Mia RIDGE (2010)

Committee member’s terms are three years. Members may stand for re-election proving they do not occupy the same post for more than two consecutive terms. Nominations, which should be sent to the Chair, Ross Parry (rdp5(AT)leicester.ac.uk), are invited from members who wish to stand for election to the committee.

The following posts fall due for election in 2009

Post	Vacancies	Comments
Treasurer	1	Angus Kneale will stand again
Membership Secretary	1	John Williams will stand again
Ordinary Members (Primarily to help with Communications & Events)	2	No nominations yet.

Any other urgent business

Summer 2004 Meeting & AGM

Rhiannon Looseley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:22 +0000

BIAD School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham.

Co-hosted by Birmingham Institute of Art & Design & Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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Autumn 2008 Meeting and AGM

mia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:16:09 +0000

London Transport Museum

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Autumn 2006 meeting and AGM

mia — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:42:44 +0000

The Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, London

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Autumn 2005 AGM Agenda

mia — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:11:04 +0000

museumscomputergroup

Museums Computer Group AGM – 3rd November 2005

World Museum Liverpool
Rex Makin Theatre, County Sessions House – 2.25pm

Agenda

1. Minutes of the last AGM
2. Apologies for absence
3. Report from the Chair
4. Finance/Membership Report
5. Newsletter Update
6. Report from Mike Lowndes / Ross Parry, UK Museums and the Web
7. Questions from the floor
8. Elections to the Committee
9. Any other business

ELECTIONS

Current Committee Members – to 3rd November AGM, 2005

1 – Debbie Richards, Chair

2 – Stuart Mann, Secretary/Treasurer (Resigning November 2005)

3 – Mike Lowndes, Webmaster/ UK Museums on the Web

4 – Helen Walsh, Newsletter Editor (proposed)

5 – Ross Parry, Archivist

Ordinary Members:

6 – Alex Bromley (Resigning November 2005)

7 – David Dawson (nominated for re-election)

8 – Bryan Wills

AGM Elections – Committee Posts November 2005 (Proposed)

1 – Chair (no change until April 2006)
*2 – Secretary / Treasurer (nominations welcome)
3 – Webmaster/ UKMW (no change until April 2006)
*4 – Newsletter Editor (nominate Helen Walsh)
5 – Archivist (no change until April 2006)
*6 – Meetings Organiser (New Post – nominate Alex Bromley)
*7 – Ordinary Member (nominate David Dawson)
8 – Ordinary Member (no change until April 2006)
*9 – Ordinary Member (New Post – nominations welcome)

*Nominations are welcome for any of the 5 posts currently available and must be Seconded by a Group Member. Please speak to a member of the Committee beforehand if you are interested in a position, or make your nomination during the Election.

Please see the MCG Constitution for further information, available at: museumscomputergroup.org.uk/about_us_constitution.htm

Autumn 2005 Meeting & AGM, Liverpool

Rhiannon Looseley — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:57:41 +0000

World Museum Liverpool

The Liverpool World Museum - thanks to Gene Hunt

Thanks all for contributing to a successful day.

Timetable

Treasure House Theatre (for a.m. sessions)

Move to the Rex Makin Theatre, County Sessions House (for 1.45)

Social events

Carrying on the mcg’s great social tradition we held dinners in a local restaurant on the evenings of Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd November.

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Autumn 2004 Meeting & AGM, British Museum

Rhiannon Looseley — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:26:33 +0000

BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre

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