UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008
19 June 2008
David Wilson Library, University of Leicester [campus map]
organised by the Museums Computer Group
sponsored by Culture 24
How (and why) should museums connect their online collections?
- Should museums pursue a policy of standardised and heavyweight national integration, or a mixed portfolio of more localised lightweight solutions?
- Should the sector continue to plan for users visiting museum Web sites, or is the future instead of more agnostic usage of distributed content?
- Might semantic technologies (rather than a ‘Semantic Web’) hold part of the answer?
- And what role is there for non-sector partners and specialist (perhaps commercial) Web services in making museum collections discoverable and useful online?
By drawing together an impressive range of national and international speakers, from academia, from industry and from the sector, this year’s UK Museums on the Web conference explores how a raft of new projects and initiatives are beginning to take museums into a new era of online integration.
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.45-9.30 | Registration and coffee David Wilson Library Seminar Suite | - |
| 9.30-9.45 | Welcome and introduction | Ross Parry (University of Leicester) |
| 9.45-10.15 | Keynote Speech Tom joined Ofcom in September 2007 - previously he was at the forefront of much of the BBC's new media strategy since joining the corporation in 2001 as Head of Broadband. He co-authored 'Building Public Value', the BBC's strategic vision for the next ten years, and also lead a major review of the BBC's activities on the Web. | Tom Loosemore - Senior Advisor, Digital Media (Ofcom) |
| 10.15-11.15 | SESSION 1 Joined up thinking | - |
| How does the Web connect content? | Lee Iverson (University of British Columbia) | |
| How should collections connect online? | Paul Marty (Florida State University) | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee break - hosted by Magic Studio | - |
| 11.45-1.00 | SESSION 2 Sector-wide initiatives | Chair: Bridget McKenzie |
| The National Museums Online Learning Project | Carolyn Royston (NMOLP) Richard Morgan (V&A) | |
| The European Digital Library | Jeremy Ottevanger (Museum of London Group) | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Buffet lunch provided in the David Wilson Library Seminar Suite - hosted by The Collections Trust | - |
| 2.00-2.45 | SESSION 3 Next-generation approaches | - |
| Sharing museum collections through Flickr | George Oates (Flickr) | |
| 2.45-3.35 | SESSION 4 Quick-and-light solutions | - |
| Different ways of seeing online collections | Fiona Romeo (National Maritime Museum) | |
| The guerilla approach to aggregating online collections | Frankie Roberto (The Science Museum) | |
| Results from the the MCG 'Mashed Museum' day | Mike Ellis (Eduserv) | |
| 3.35-4.00 | Afternoon tea and cake | - |
| 4.00-5.00 | SESSION 5 Here-and-now decisions | - |
| Then taking their lead from some recent key threads on the MCG discussion list, a final panel session will identify and discuss the key choices (both technical and strategic) now facing the sector. | - | |
| 5.00-5.15 | Take homes from the day | - |
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