2002 Spring Meetings of the MCG
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2002

Spring meeting

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 April.

Programme

Tuesday 16th April

10.30 Arrive and coffee

11.00 Session 1 Ceramics in Cyberspace - The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in the digital age

  • ICT as a strategic tool - Ian Lawley, Head of Museums
  • Getting collections on-line - Keith Bloor, Collections Information Officer
  • Exploring the Potteries - Julie Field, Project Manager (www.exploringthepotteries.org.uk will be on-line from Nov/Dec 2002)

12.30 Lunch

  • 13.15 Behind the scenes tour (optional)

14.00 Session 2

  • A presentation by David Dawson, Senior ICT Advisor, Re:source.

15.15 Coffee

15.30 Session 3

  • The Ceramic Century project - Vikki Martin, Research Assistant, Gladstone Museum. Contact information for this community history project can be found on the Gladstone Museum website
  • Reconstructing the past through digital imaging - Andrew Briggs, Manager, Hothouse Ceramic Design Centre (an example of 3D digital imaging can be found at the Millennium Angel website)

17.00 End

Wednesday 17th April

9.30 Session 4

  • Darwin County: the development of a multi-disciplinary website - Peter Boyd, Collections Manager and IT Project Co-ordinator, Shrewsbury Museums. Other papers on the same subject can be found on Peter Boyd's website
  • Common Threads: a Cyber-consortium - Mary Durose, DataVista Ltd. A new CTIC portal will be on-line in a month or so at www.ctic.org.uk.

11.00 Coffee

11.15 Session 5

13.00 Close

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