Sounds great Rebecca.
Leicester's School of Museum Studies did some work, funded by an Innovations Fellowship, into what became known as 'LIVE!Labels'. You can read up on what we did in our paper 'How shall we label our exhibit today?':
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/parry/parry.html
The company involved (Xor) has a small piece on them as well on their site:
http://www.xor.co.uk/ll.php
Culture24 also gave us some nice coverage at the time:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/east+midlands/leicester/art41332
The project then evolved and extended into our recent 'LIVE!Museum' initiative - a collaborative brokering project between Leicester, System Simulation Ltd., the Collections Trust and BT, funded by the AHRC. The project was supported by the Museums Computer Group, so you can find out more about the ideas and projects generated by the initiative here:
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/projects/livemuseum/
Hope that helps,
Ross.
Dr. Ross Parry
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School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
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Subject: Exhibition labels and text
Hi all,
I am writing some articles for the October issue of Museum Practice on exhibition labels.
The articles will focus on new approaches to exhibition labels, including digital innovations and using non-traditional voices. There will also be advice on how to write exhibition label guidelines for your museum.
If you’ve come across any interesting case studies, or if your museum is doing exciting work in this area, then it would be great to hear from you - [log in to unmask]
Thanks,
Rebecca Atkinson
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