With over 500,000 pages and 30,000 illustrated collection records online, the museum’s website is a rich resource for all. Our challenge is to craft a more participatory and engaging experience and to meet visitor expectations for an on-demand museum.

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is advertising a post for an Online Learning Manager. The closing date is 7 March 2008. For details please go to:

http://www.peoplebank.com/pbank/owa/vam.vacancies

Gail Durbin
Head of V&A Online

Research Assistant (Arts and Humanities) Scale 6 (£23,002 - £24,403 per annum) plus London Allowance of £2,572 per annum, Full time, 9 month contract due to funding.

E -Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment

This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. The project aims to apply e-science technologies to museum work and artefact analysis, exploring the potential to capture and share in a secure and repeatable manner very large, detailed datasets about museum artefacts, thereby enhancing international scholarship and facilitating he safe movement of artefacts. The ability to share validated 3D colour data could facilitate object-tracking and condition checking, enabling curators and conservators to compare records collected at different institutions and stored remotely, or collected over a period of time under different conditions, in order to assess and monitor change. The project is jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The London Museums Hub is inviting tenders for two pieces of consultancy work:

Online audience research
This project aims to provide a more complete understanding of the London Hub's online audiences, and the relationship between online and physical use of the Hub museums. The project will involve analysis of previous research carried out by the Hub partners, along with new research specifically for this project. The outputs of the project will include a report detailing findings and recommendations, along with a practical methodology to enable the Hub to take this forward over the longer-term.

A more detailed brief is available here:
http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/Online_audience_research_brief.doc

Developing a common methodology for recording and using web statistics