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On 30 January 2006, Brian Kelly wrote:
> Web 2.0 technologies do seem very important to the cultural
> heritage (and educational section). I gave a talk on this on Friday which
> may be of interest - see
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/kcl-2006-01/
I was interested to read the abstract of Brian's talk, part of which is
quoted below:
"However the Web does not yet have appeared to have stabilised. The Semantic
Web is still being developed and we have recently started to hear about Web
2.0. There are also a wide range of Web-based applications being developed,
such as Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, Social Networking software, etc. which may
have implications for the higher education community."
I'm not sure the web will ever become stabilised. The beauty of the web is
that it is ever-evolving into something new, with many 'stable' technologies
becoming deprecated as newer versions replace them, offering more
functionality, and more reliability. Blogs, Wikis, iterations of the HTML
specification, and web applications (and the technologies that drive them)
are testament to that. It's quite fast-paced in the grand scheme of things,
and often involve new ways of thinking about things rather than brand new
technologies per se (a lot of 'Web 2.0' technology isn't new, just used in
new ways).
I'd agree that "Web 2.0", if we have to give it that moniker, has huge
potential benefits for us in the heritage sector. They give us new ways to
communicate, which can only be a good thing.
"And, in addition to such disruptive technologies emerging from the Web
development community, within the UK HE sector JISC are committed to the
development of the e-Framework, based on a Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) approach, to support the development of applications of particular
relevance to the HE sector such as e-learning, portals, digital
repositories, etc."
I'm interested in what is meant by "such disruptive technologies". Is that
in the sense that these technologies arrive with such speed they upset
current strategies / technology frameworks?
Cheers,
Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Brian Kelly
> Sent: 30 January 2006 09:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Electronic Museum news - Feb 2006
>
> Hi Mike
> A couple of comments.
>
> > * Podcast interview - Every object tells a story *
> >
> > Finally, after a load of technical hitches, some re-wiring, a
> > couple of explosions and some heavy swearing, I've managed to
> > put the first EM podcast interview online.
> >
> > In November 2005, I recorded an interview with Rachel
> > Coldicutt who was project manager for the Every Object
> > website [http://www.everyobject.net] and asked her about the
> > site - what went well, what they've got planned for the
> > future, and what on earth they were doing with a "video taxi"....
> >
> > Hear the podcast here:
> >
> > http://www.electronicmuseum.org.uk/em/articles/displayarticle.
> > asp?articleid=podcasts/everyobject
>
> I listened to part of the MP3 file - but couldn't find a Podcast file! A
> Podcast is a distribution mechanism for sound files and is not a synonym
> for
> an MP3 file on the Web (see
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-83/)
>
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > * Blog *
> >
> > I'd like to welcome Dan Zambonini as co-author of the
> > Electronic Museum blog. Dan works for internet consultancy
> > Box UK and regularly posts on the O'Reilly website. He's big
> > on Semantic Web and all things XML, but don't let that put you off...
> >
> > Together we'll be trying to get to some understanding about
> > what Web2.0means (if anything) for museums online, as well as
> > posting as much as we can about what's going on in the world
> > of the web and how it might affect what we do in our sector.
> >
> > screen: http://www.electronicmuseum.org.uk/em/blog
> > reader: http://www.electronicmuseum.org.uk/em/feeds/blog.xml
>
>
> "It's just like being back in the 90's...Excitement seems to have surfaced
> everywhere you look online at the promise of the "new" web." Yes, I'd
> agree
> with this. Web 2.0 technologies do seem very important to the cultural
> heritage (and educational section). I gave a talk on this on Friday which
> may be of interest - see
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/kcl-2006-01/
>
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > * Accessibility - tell EM your thoughts *
> >
> > Over the coming months I'm going to be writing some stuff on
> > accessibility, and I'd like contributions from anyone who has
> > opinions on how we should approach it:
> >
> > - can an accessible website also be visually attractive, or
> > does it by necessity mean a design compromise?
> > - are accessible websites expensive to build?
> > - what are your top 10 accessibility tips when planning a new site?
> > - who gets it right in our sector? and wrong..?
>
> Again this is a very important area, especially in the cultural heritage
> area. And it's not just a question of implementing WAI WCAG guidelines -
> for example, if you create a Podcast (or an MP3 file) you should provide a
> text transcript if you want to comply fully with WCAG guidelines. Will
> institutions do this? Or will they remove such files if they haven't the
> resources to do this?
>
> We gave a paper on "Implementing A Holistic Approach To E-Learning
> Accessibility" at the ALT-C 2005 Conference in September - which included
> a
> case study from Caro Howell about her i-Map work at the Tate Gallery where
> she previously worked - see
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/alt-c-2005/
>
> Hope this is of interest
>
> Brian
>
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