Are you a Web Manager in a museum?
Are you a Web Designer who works with museums?
Then, why not come and help build the "Mashed Museum"!
We have a couple of spaces still left at next week's Spring School in New Media, taking place on Thursday 21 June at the University of Leicester (UK).
This year's School (we are now in our sixth year!) is entitled "Mashed Museum" and has been designed as a pre-conference day for the 'Web Adept' UKMW event, also taking place in Leicester, on 22 June; for details of the main conference see:
http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/2-2007.shtml
Mashed Museum will be a day of free-form thinking and action, with only enough structure to make sure we actually get something out of the (considerable) collective brainpower that will be in the room.
Essentially, this is a Web hack, a WebTank, a Web Jam ... for those working in or with museums. It will be quite experimental, and something very new for the Spring School and the UKMW series of conferences.
Confirmed participants are coming from a variety of instructions and companies, including the National Media Museum, National Maritime Museum, 24 Hour Museum, Museum of London, Science Museum, MDA, Eduserv, Blitz Games and Box UK.
The day aims to provide an ideas-rich and resource-rich environment free from some of the political or monetary constraints that tend to shape our work day-to-day. The focus of the day is not IPR, copyright, funding or museum politics. Instead, our energies will be channelled into embracing the "new web": envisaging, demonstrating and building some lightweight distributed applications. Collectively, participants will:
- demonstrate that such applications can be built quickly, easily and often for free
- show the power of opening up content and data via API's or web services
- share ideas and concepts without constraining them
- discover new tools, sources of data and content
- have fun!
You can read more about the day here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ah63ttjw8gjp_7w5qcq4
The day costs £40 which will cover coffee (and lots of it!), lunch in the University Carvery, drinks during the demos and crits at the end of the day, and an evening meal.
But if you are working in a small independent museum or local authority museum, or if you are a student, and this fee might be a barrier to your participation - please do get in contact with us nevertheless, as there is some financial support we can offer.
And - as ever with the Spring School - we are intentionally capping numbers at about 14.
If you're creative, technical(-ish) and think you will bring something to the party, then please drop Mike Ellis a line at [log in to unmask]
Please note that this is strictly first come first served.
Also a reminder to anyone who hasn't yet booked for the main conference day (on the 22nd June), places are filling fast, but there is still time! You can book online at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/2-2007.shtml
Best wishes,
Ross Parry
Mike Ellis
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Dr. Ross Parry
Lecturer
Department of Museum Studies
University of Leicester
105 Princess Road East
Leicester
LE1 7LG,
UK
www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies
t: 0116 252 3963
f: 0116 252 3960
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