UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008
19 June 2008
Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester [campus map]

david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science .... it's got me wondering about what the 'general, intelligent reader' might want to know about museums and the web. 

i'm thinking we need to answer the following questions:

here's the rationale -- and history -- behind my interest in the cc+ framework. something that i think museums should be looking seriously at. it was spurred by an exchange on the MCG list and still bears a bit of that context in its tone.

There's an article in the Museums Section of the New York Times yesterday about museums activities in social network spaces. it was my conversation with Dan Frost (the frelance reporter who wrote the piece) that sparked my recent blog postings about the subject. Dan's piece is a good intro ... and there are a lot of Museums and the Web papers about the subject this year, and in past years [search the bibliography].

Killer Statue — Psyched About the Site!

It seems like the more time we spend online, the more we value real experiences. However, there are some things, like history, that can only be replicated, not experienced. Fortunately, the digital medium is ideally suited to illuminating the past.

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Findings of the second Nonprofit IT Staffing Report include: