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User specified: Museum audiences and the new web environment

6 July 2006, University of Leicester

Main conference THURSDAY 6 JULY
Special interest group meeting: FRIDAY 7 JULY
Hosted by The University of Leicester's Digital Heritage Research Group
Lead sponsor: The 24 Hour Museum, with Ke Software and ReadSpeaker UK

Overview:

UKMW audience Following on from 'Web Enabled' (2004) and 'The Digital Object' (2005),
this year's UK Museums on the Web conference focused on audience.

  • Do we know who our online audiences are, and what they want?
  • Are we providing the right kind of service?
  • And in a rapidly developing online environment, are we keeping up with this audience's changing expectations and practices?

Presentations

Summing up now available.

Timetable

9.00 - 9.30
Arrival and registration.

9.30 - 9.45
Welcome and housekeeping
Debbie Richards mcg Chair
Introduction
Jane Finnis, 24 Hour Museum

9.45 - 10.15
The new content landscape
Simon Waldman (Guardian) Bio.

Jennifer Trant 10.15 - 10.45
Keynote lecture: Museums and Web 2.0: Connections + Community
Jennifer Trant (Archives and Museum Informatics). Abstract

10.45 - 11.10
Tea / coffee courtesy of ReadSpeaker UK

11.10 - 12.00
Who is out there?
Chair Mike Lowndes (Natural History Museum)

  • Impact analysis for web sites
    Brian Kelly (UKOLN). Abstract, Presentation
  • From evaluation to engagement
    Caroline John (Thinktank, Birmingham science museum). Abstract

12.00 - 12.50
How do audiences discover museums online?
Chair: Jon Pratty (24 Hour Museum)

  • How people find museum collection content online
    Mukti Bawa (PhD student, BIAD) Bio.
  • Mike Greenwood (Culture Online) and Katie Streten (Channel 4)

12.50 - 2.00
Lunch (provided courtesy of Ke Software)

2.00 - 2.50
How is this audience changing?
Chair: Ross Parry (University of Leicester)

  • What do user contributions tell us about developing museum websites?
    Gail Durbin (V&A) Abstract
  • 'The kind of thing that our age wants to do': putting younger visitors at the centre of the museum experience - online and on site
    Dan Phillips (The SEA). Abstract

2.50 - 3.40
What are the effects of the new online technologies - the new 'social software'?
Chair Jennifer Trant

  • The Inside Out Web Museum
    Jon Pratty (24 Hour Museum) Abstract
  • Web2.0: why Museums are scared and excited all at the same time
    Mike Ellis (Science Museum). Bio.
  • Museums and podcasting
    Lena Maculan (PhD student, University of Leicester) Abstract

3.40 - 4.00
Tea / coffee courtesy of ReadSpeaker UK

4.00-5.00
How is museum learning provision adapting to the new web environment?
Chair: Anra Kennedy (24 Hour Museum)

  • What schools need
    Marshall Mateer (RBC Consultant). Abstract
  • Using ARKive films and images in education - a case study and lessons learnt
    Bruce Phillips (ARKive). Abstract
  • The active use of archive material in the classroom
    Helen Wright (Leicester City Council). Abstract

5.00-5.10
Summing up and final thoughts.
Mike Lowndes, mcg UKMW lead, Natural History Museum.

Friday 7th

  • 10-12 am - UK Museums on the Semantic Web inaugural meeting.
    (contact Ross Parry)

24 hour MuseumUniversity of Leicester KE Software