The James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the Saïd Business School, Universitry of Oxford, is announcing two research fellows in science and technology studies.

For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/

With the addition of the papers published for Museums and the Web 2008, the on-line bibliography maintained at conference.archimuse.com now numbers over 1,200 sources.

These published papers from Museums and the Web and ICHIM – with full texts available on-line – represent the development of museums on the web, and museums and interactive multimedia from 1991 to the present.

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Submission deadline: March 31, 2008

Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
A book edited by Maria Manuela Cunha, Eva Oliveira, António Tavares & Luís Ferreira
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
http://handbooksemanticweb.ipca.pt

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services" within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.

Introduction:

"The web isn't about what you can do with computers. It's people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn't tell you about what happens on the web". Tim Berners-Lee, NY Times, Nov 02, 2006.

Issue no. 3 of e_conservation magazine is online and available for download from http://www.e-conservationline.com. Past issues are also available from the archive, with a new download option for individual articles as well.

No. 3, published on 24th February 2008
ISSN: 1646-9283

INDEX

News - New Website
Cultural Heritage Conservation Events
http://www.conservationevents.com

Conference Review
I Heritage Conference, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
14-15 February 2008, Lisbon, Portugal

Upcoming Events
February - April 2008

Interview
John Asmus, from Lasers to Art Conservation

Museum History Journal, Volume 1 (2008), number 1
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6

Volume 1, number 1 of the Museum History Journal is now avaialble from LeftCoast Press, Inc. The Table of Contents follows:

FROM THE EDITORS