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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