Mark - nice idea. I would be happy to help pull a proposal together with anyone interested. Just let me know.
Also I would just like to say thanks to all those people who replied to my initial questions. Its been really helpful.
Cheers
Kate
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With all these great examples and people speaking with each other, is there any opportunity for working up a paper for the Museums Association conference in Edinburgh in November?
The call for papers says "How can museums connect with communities on their doorsteps?" is UGC not beginning to address one side of that question?
Further details on CFP with a deadline of 19 February. http://www.museumsassociation.org/conference/03012012-send-us-your-session-proposal-for-conference-2012
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Hi Nick, Kate and all,
I currently work at London Transport Museum as a community curator, and you're absolutely right Nick that we have been heavily involved with using the Revisiting Collections framework and collecting user generated content.
All of our UGC records get added to our permanent collection alongside other objects and records, and have become an accepted form of collecting by the department as a whole. Any interesting and relevant new pieces of information, new stories about objects, or responses which have come out of our reinterpretation work are added to the collection, with the intention that they could be used as interpretation in the future, and the knowledge that they are forming a new layer of understanding to the collection. The Museum continues to follow this framework - we are currently working on two major pieces of work, one for Stories of the World which has involved a number of reinterpretation projects to highlight the international significance of objects in our galleries, and another project which involves collaborative collecting for the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013.
I am working on the LU150 project, working with passengers and staff to collect their experiences of the Underground. Social media sites, such as Twitter, as also being used to collect new responses and stories - the outcomes of these projects also get added to the collection as UGC where relevant.
I'd be happy to share specific UGC record examples and projects with you, so please do not hesitate to contact me directly if that would be of use. Kate - I did a work placement at Tairawhiti Museum in October 2010, exploring ways of collecting new community stories, and really enjoyed the experience!
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Jen
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Poole
Sent: 12 January 2012 09:01
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Subject: Re: Storing and re-using UGC.
Hi Kate,
There have been quite a few UK projects in the past few years looking at how UGC can be managed, stored and re-purposed as part of the overall collections management and interpretation of the collections. The Collections Trust led on a project called 'Revisiting Collections' which developed a methodology and data structure for incorporating UGC (narratives) alongside collections data. You can find out more at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programmes/revisiting-collections.
We have since incorporated the metadata structure into the SPECTRUM standard, so that in theory narrative UGC can be incorporated into museum Collections Management Systems. We are also soon going to be starting work on how we integrate Digital Asset Management workflows alongside core Collections Management in SPECTRUM, and I am sure that UGC (assets) will be a key concern here. More information on SPECTRUM 4.0, which integrates the Revisiting Collections structure, is available from http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programmes/spectrum.
I say 'in theory' above because there were some really interesting lessons we learned from the Revisiting Collections project. Although a lot of the museums we were working with were very keen to acquire, store and manage user-generated narratives, there was a very significant resistance to internalising this material alongside the 'orthodox' collections documentation.
Some people, like the London Transport Museum, did some really interesting work setting up infrastructure to manage UGC (I'd love to hear from them about how this has progressed since), but from my understanding this was largely as a separate dataset from the core collections data. There were some projects that actually internalised UGC into core systems (thinking about the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology in Cambridge, where Robin Boast had some very interesting projects underway) but for the most part there seems to be a strong impulse to 'quarantine' UGC from the main collections data of the institution.
I'd love to hear more about your findings on this, and any updates from colleagues on the list - most of the things I've mentioned above are 2-3 years old and I'm not sure how the picture has evolved.
With best regards,
Nick
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Dear all
I work at Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum of New Zealand and am keen to get some feed back about some ideas we are having here.
Across Te Papa we are slowly getting interested in UGC and co-creation for different exhibitions, and I'm keen for all of that material to be deposited within one large database. My, probably naïve, thinking being that this database can then be mined from onsite as well as online and be used to 'pull' out user generated content for the exhibitions, dialogues, school programmes, event etc beyond the purpose that people originally created the material for.
We would (as we do mostly now) make sure upfront that people are aware how their material could potentially be used.
Does any of this make sense?! And even sound vaguely sensible? Is anyone anywhere else collecting UGC material and reusing it?
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