Museums and the Web 2009, Selected Papers from an international conference
Edited by Jennifer Trant and David Bearman.
Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2009.
Contents
On Being Open
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, Canada 3
1. What Has Web 2.0 Wrought?
Going Analog: Translating Virtual Learnings into Real Institutional Change
Nina Simon, Museum 2.0, USA ..... 13
Great Expectations: Sustaining Participation in Social Media Spaces
Angelina Russo, Swinburne University of Technology, and Darren Peacock,
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia ..... 23
Museums & Wikis: Two Case Studies
Rhiannon Looseley, Museum of London, and Frankie Roberto, Rattle,
United Kingdom ..... 37
Collaborative History: Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tracey Baker, Joe Hoover, Rose Sherman, Minnesota Historical Society, USA ..... 47
WeTube: Getting Physical with a Virtual Community at the Ontario Science Centre
Kevin von Appen, Kathy Nicholaichuk and Karen Hager, Ontario Science Centre, Canada ..... 57
Take Two: A Study of the Co-Creation of Knowledge on Museum 2.0 Sites
Jeffrey T. Grabill, Stacey Pigg, and Katie Wittenauer, Michigan State University, USA ..... 63
2. Education and Evaluation
After the Heroism, Collaboration: Organizational Learning and the Mobile Space
Peter Samis and Stephanie Pau, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA ..... 77
Pedagogy and Design: Understanding Teacher Use of On-line Museum Resources
Mariruth Leftwich, Museum of London, and Martin Bazley, ICT4Learning,
United Kingdom ..... 89
Doing It for the Kids: Tate Online on Engaging, Entertaining and (Stealthily)
Educating Six to 12-Year-Olds
Sharna Jackson and Robert Adamson, Tate, United Kingdom ..... 99
Learning In The Wild: What WolfQuest Taught Developers and Game Players
David T. Schaller, Eduweb; Kate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation;
Grant Spickelmier, Minnesota Zoo; Steven Allison-Bunnell, Eduweb; Jessica Koepfler, Institute for Learning Innovation, USA ..... 113
Fictional Press Releases and Fake Artifacts: How the Smithsonian American Art
Museum is Letting Game Players Redefine the Rules
Georgina Bath Goodlander, Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA ..... 127
3. [Re] Design
Redesigning Your Museum’s Web Site: A Survivors’ Guide
Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art; Joanna Champagne, National
Gallery of Art; Charlotte Sexton, The National Gallery, United Kingdom;
and Dana Mitroff Silvers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA ..... 143
Tear Down the Walls: The Redesign of ArtsConnectEd
Robin Dowden, Walker Art Center, and Scott Sayre, Sandbox Studios, USA ..... 157
Emerging Web Browsing Alternatives
Adriana Olmos, Bluesponge; Steffen Boddeker and Alexandra McIntosh,
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada ..... 169
Collection Effects: Examining the Actual Use of On-Line Archival Images
Brian Dawson, Marc Ladouceur, Marcia Rak, Canada Science and Technology
Museum Corporation, Canada ..... 179
4. Where Are We Heading?
NZMuseums: Showcasing the Collections of All New Zealand Museums
Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems Ltd., and Wallis Barnicoat, Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand 201
Fedora, Drupal, and Cloud Computing for a Low-Cost, Sustainable DAM
Ari Davidow, Jewish Women’s Archive, USA 217
The Interpretation of Bias (and the Bias of Interpretation)
Aaron Straup Cope, Flickr, USA ..... 227
Hoard.it: Aggregating, Displaying and Mining Object-Data Without Consent
(or: Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals for Museum Collections On-line)
Mike Ellis, Eduserv, and Dan Zambonini, Box UK, United Kingdom ..... 235
About the Authors
About the Authors ..... 247
Index to Authors, Institutions and Keywords ..... 259
Informatics: The interdisciplinary study of information content, representation, technology, and applications,
and the methods and strategies by which information is used in organizations, networks, cultures, and societies.