Putting things in their place
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Putting things in their place National Digital Forum 29 th Nov 2011 Wellington Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems
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Places play a key part in the stories attached to a museum and its collections. How are museums linking their collections to the outside world? Recent examples include Christchurch Art Gallery’s project to crowd-source subject geo-locations for their artworks, NZMuseums’ new Map View for viewing museum locations and Balboa Park’s mobile adventure game. What could your museum be doing to connect to places and why is this important?
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- 1. Putting things in their place National Digital Forum 29 thNov 2011 Wellington Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems
2. Connecting objects to the world we live in 3. 4. 5. Volunteer Power Courtesy of Christchurch Art Gallery 6. 7. 8. www.oldsf.org 9. View the archive in relation to time and place 10. http://www.freshandnew.org/2009/03/05/qr-codes-in-the-museum-problems-and-opportunities-with-extended-object-labels/ Powerhouse Museum Experiments with QR codes 11. QR codes http://www.flickr.com/photos/17804775@N00/4336671552 12. QR codes Quite Restrictive
- Need:
- to know what a QR code is
- a smartphone
- a QR code scanner
- an incentive to scan it
13. Image recognition May bypass QR codes http://www.flickr.com/photos/magicketchup/5012051422 14. Image recognition But its not there yet 15. Use, create, share historical geographic information 16. Pleiades Ancient Places + Google Books +Flickr + OpenContent 17. Low-tech is also good 18. Balboa Parks low-tech adventure www.giskin.org 19. 20. Discover places Find connections and content Get content onsite, offsite, offline 21. Slideshow: Paul Rowe, @armchair_caver
