The Museum Computer Group is pleased to offer a small number of bursaries to enable a broad range of people to attend our Spring workshop 2016 – ‘Life Support: living with digital projects’ in the Hospititum, York on 6th May.
The bursary provides free entry to the event and an additional £100 to cover travel and other expenses. Winning a bursary looks great on a CV, and gives us a way to foster diverse voices in the sector.
We would especially like to hear from those in small museums, unwaged/low-waged individuals, early career professionals and students who would benefit from support to attend the conference. Our goal with these bursaries is to both reach the wider museum community and to support individuals who may otherwise be unable to attend. As part of our mission to support the museum sector, we are particularly interested in hearing how recipients of the bursaries can disseminate the messages of the event to others, whether through blogging or writing for specialist publications, forwarding information to colleagues etc. We're as interested in reaching specialist and local groups as broad audiences, and you can be as creative or traditional as you like in your approach to sharing ideas from the day.
You can apply by emailing Brian ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 1st April 2016 with the following information:
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A brief note of your current position (e.g. volunteer, student, staff at a small museum) and how attending will benefit you and/or related organisations
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Your ideas for disseminating the presentations and ideas at the conference.
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Any other information relevant to your application. For example, links to social media accounts, blog posts, other publications or affiliations.
We will respond to successful applicants by 8th April 2016.
The full programme for the event is available on the MCG Website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/mcg-spring-event/
Remaining tickets, including concession tickets, for the event can also be purchased through Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mcg-spring-workshop-2016-life-support-living-with-digital-projects-tickets-22239111782
All the best,
Brian Moss
About the Museums Computer Group:
The Museums Computer Group (MCG) is a UK-based independent group for museum, gallery, cultural heritage and education professionals who work with or are interested in museum technology and digital heritage. Our members include technologists, educators, academics, marketers, curators and more working in or around museums and digital technologies, from backend collections systems to social media. Our first meeting was back in 1982, and while technology changes around us, our mission of connecting, supporting and inspiring the museum sector continues.
About our Spring 2016 workshop, Life Support: living with digital projects:
Continuing the MCG’s long-standing interest in how museums respond to the changes that digital technologies bring, our 2016 theme is: 'Life Support: living with digital projects'. We've worked with the York Museums Trust to provide a venue and local connections.
Museums have invested in digital projects for exhibitions, events, audience interaction, collections management and more. Myriad funders, from government to trusts and foundations to philanthropists, are willing to provide project funding for museums to complete website rebuilds, develop new digital interactives and apps, create online collections sites and picture libraries. But what happens the day after a project launches? How do individual projects affect the rest of the museum? And a year after launch, what traces remain of the lessons learnt?
On 13 Mar 2016, at 17:07, Mia <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
The Museums Computer Group is inviting proposals for our 2016 Spring workshop, to be held at the Hospitium in York on May 6, 2016. Continuing the MCG's long-standing interest in how museums respond to the changes that digital technologies bring, our event theme is 'Life Support: living with digital projects'.
Museums have invested in digital projects for exhibitions, events, audience interaction, collections management and more. Myriad funders, from government to trusts and foundations to philanthropists, are willing to provide project funding for museums to complete website rebuilds, develop new digital interactives and apps, create online collections sites and picture libraries. But what happens the day after a project launches? How do individual projects affect the rest of the museum? And a year after launch, what traces remain of the lessons learnt?
We are seeking proposals from colleagues willing to share their insights on the aftermath of digital projects in the cultural heritage sector. How have you successfully integrated digital projects into core business? Where have you struggled, and what lessons have you learned?Topics of interest include:
* Maintaining digital projects after the funding has run out
* The pros and cons of building in-house expertise vs outsourcing and agencies
* Integrating project learning into core practices, workflows and job descriptions
* The role of project evaluation internally and in the wider sector
* How partnerships change and evolve after the end of a project.
We are looking for a number of short (c. 20 minute) talks that share practical experience and will give delegates concrete ideas to take back to their organisations. We would also be interested in sessions that take a different approach, whether that be a workshop, debate or roundtable - feel free to be creative in pitching your idea! If you're not sure about your proposed topic or format, then get in touch: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/contact/
Our application form is here: http://goo.gl/forms/5qddYLUN6r
*The call closes at midnight GMT on March 21, 2016. We will review proposals and get back to you within a fortnight.*
Other event information:
In what's probably a first for the cultural sector, the MCG has started sharing the profits from our events with speakers. Speakers can choose to 'pay it forward' and contribute to bursaries for low income/unwanted attendees, or accept a small sum in recognition of the work it takes to prepare a presentation.
Our keynote speaker is a major figure from the museum world - stay tuned for an announcement this week!
Don't miss out on event news - follow @ukmcg or register for occasional updates on Calls for Proposals and ticketing: http://museumscomputergroup.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8562366cd3e252e8ce0b84eb2&id=c42ece539e
Early bird tickets are now on sale - buy now and save: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mcg-spring-workshop-2016-life-support-living-with-digital-projects-tickets-22239111782
Find out why people love coming to our events: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/
Finally - save the date! UKMW16 will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 19 October 2016.
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