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Dear all
Just to let you know that we're very excited to be able to reveal the
full programme for this year's annual UK Museums on the Web conference -
UKMW12: Strategically digital.
****The full programme is now live on the MCG website at:
bit.ly/UKMW12.****
Here's a quick sneak preview:
**Keynote: Andrew Dobson, 'The rise of creative technology'**
Crawling out of the dingy computer science basement, technology is not
only more accessible and open than ever, but it's also fueling an
exciting culture of creativity. And it's just as well because the sheer
pace of development in the digital world can present quite a challenge
to organisations focussing their attentions upon it. Whilst we tend to
think of digital as a strategic necessity, it's also a huge well of
creative opportunity and there are new breeds of technologists that are
finding ever more inventive ways to meet this challenge. In this talk,
we'll explore some aspects of the multi-faceted discipline of Creative
Technology, from maker faires, digital arts and web standards through to
the prevalent culture of being digital that surrounds us, and how
institutions and organizations can use it to power their own
innovations.
**Keynote: Paul Rowe, 'What do we want from online collections?'**
What are the current trends for collections online? How can information
about our collections best be presented? How can collection records and
images be shared with others and re-used in different ways? What can we
learn from our collections once they are online?
This presentation gives an overview of the goals we hope to achieve by
putting our collections data on the web. Collections are not just
objects. Collections represent knowledge about our history and
environment which museum audiences increasingly expect access to.
Through a series of recent examples, I will look at how collections on
web tie into museum missions and how we can help users engage with
collections and add content in new ways.
**Session: Lessons from the sector**
* Victoria and Albert Museum: The realities of moving to Digital First
* Tate: Tate's Digital Strategy: The Times They Are A-Changin'
**Session: Turning strategy into reality**
* UCL and IWM: The Positives and Negatives of Digital R&D
* Guardian: The rapidly changing face of the digital audiences
* Collections Trust: Share or sharealike - deciding how, when and where
to share your digital content
**Session: Putting digital strategy in context**
* Strategic Content Alliance: Organisational Transformation and
Sustainability
* Digital Humanities at King's College: Curation and Impact for the
Digital Age
* Caper: People not Products: a radically different approach to digital
strategy
For full information on the programme, venue details, how to buy tickets
etc, see the MCG website: bit.ly/UKMW12.
****Buy tickets at: http://ukmw12.eventbrite.co.uk/.****
Hope to see you all there. Happy Friday!
Rhiannon (on behalf of the MCG committee)
Rhiannon LooseleyDigital Collections Programme ManagerMuseum of LondonLondon Wall150 London WallLondon EC2Y 5HNTel: 020 7814 5601Email: [log in to unmask]www.museumoflondon.org.uk
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