To me as a curator, and I think to several others of my colleagues the central question remains, how can one create a real work of art analoguous to the wonders of a book in a previous age using a combination of digital resources and textual interpretation. The book was essentially a text based medium and the coffee-table book relied on images of beautiful things. The digital media enable the really smart and illuminating cross-relationships of different digital things and text as well. With the possibility of user engagement. That makes the museum a much more central to the new media but also raises the challenge of how one creates the compelling product.
Dr Robert Bud
Sarton Professor, 2012-2013, University of Ghent
Keeper of Science and Medicine
The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD
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Dear colleague,
I thought you might be interested in a new presentation on 'Digital
Trends in UK Museums 2013' which we have just posted to Slideshare -
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/sustaining-digital/1938-digit
al-trends-in-museums-2013.
The presentation was developed for a meeting with Oxford ASPIRE, and we
would really welcome your views and comments. Have we captured the main
current issues? What have we missed?
Please tell us what you think using the comments on the page!
With best regards,
Nick
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