http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/ Our Thoughts on Teaching & Technology Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-43240 The Art History Blog » Blog Archive » The Venus of Willendorf Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:17:43 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-43240 [...] by a college classmate’s ventures into daily blogging and a thought-provoking blog entry on Smarthistory.org, I’m going to give this daily blogging thing a try with “The Daily [...] [...] by a college classmate’s ventures into daily blogging and a thought-provoking blog entry on Smarthistory.org, I’m going to give this daily blogging thing a try with “The Daily [...]

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41416 wiki write : Museumist Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:32:59 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41416 [...] wikis to write museum [...] [...] wikis to write museum [...]

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41411 Art » Smarthistory: Art History Podcasts & Videos » Blog Archive … Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:27:37 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41411 [...] The rest is here:  Smarthistory: Art History Podcasts & Videos » Blog Archive … [...] [...] The rest is here:  Smarthistory: Art History Podcasts & Videos » Blog Archive … [...]

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41409 Steven Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:03:30 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41409 Okay, I'm sold. Platial.com is enormous fun and may well be the right sort of solution for including visitor generated content. This is already way too much fun. Thanks so much, we hope to see you in the sandbox. Okay, I’m sold. Platial.com is enormous fun and may well be the right sort of solution for including visitor generated content. This is already way too much fun. Thanks so much, we hope to see you in the sandbox.

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41408 Wade Roush Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:33:44 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41408 An online label for every piece in a museum, accessible from mobile devices (and perhaps indexed based on the artwork's location -- all easily doable using Wi-Fi positioning systems like the one built into the iPhone) is a long overdue idea. But if you are thinking about building it as a wiki -- with a "multiplicity of voices" involved -- why not include the museum visitors themselves in that multiplicity? Wikis are open in spirit, and a wiki-based museum label should be a place where people can record their own experiences and reactions to an artwork, and maybe even attach essays / videos / photos that lead their fellow visitors on a longer journey inspired by the artwork. For a related example, take a look at how Platial.com is encouraging place-based community storytelling around geotagged photos. An online label for every piece in a museum, accessible from mobile devices (and perhaps indexed based on the artwork’s location — all easily doable using Wi-Fi positioning systems like the one built into the iPhone) is a long overdue idea. But if you are thinking about building it as a wiki — with a “multiplicity of voices” involved — why not include the museum visitors themselves in that multiplicity? Wikis are open in spirit, and a wiki-based museum label should be a place where people can record their own experiences and reactions to an artwork, and maybe even attach essays / videos / photos that lead their fellow visitors on a longer journey inspired by the artwork. For a related example, take a look at how Platial.com is encouraging place-based community storytelling around geotagged photos.

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41406 Daily News About Wikis : A few links about Wikis - Saturday, 25 April 2009 20:13 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:16:21 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41406 [...] Smarthistory: Art History Podcasts & Videos Blog Archive … [...] [...] Smarthistory: Art History Podcasts & Videos Blog Archive … [...]

]]> http://smarthistory.org/blog/403/museum-label-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-41404 Nancy Proctor Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:35:20 +0000 http://smarthistory.org/blog/?p=403#comment-41404 Great post & what a wonderful initiative in Smarthistory Lab! I look forward to seeing you reinvent the label - it's been a long time in coming, I agree. I'd like to explore the relationship between the label and the stop; maybe in the Future of Mobile Interpretation that Koven imagines, a label is but one kind of stop, and is networked into all the content from the other sources - artist, art historians, learned amateurs (in the French sense) that you can imagine... I can definitely see small digital screens run on watch batteries replacing the paper-mounted label eventually, and offering a broader range of both content and functionality through integrated RF or Wifi. But the technology behind the label is not important; getting the content right is. Great post & what a wonderful initiative in Smarthistory Lab! I look forward to seeing you reinvent the label – it’s been a long time in coming, I agree. I’d like to explore the relationship between the label and the stop; maybe in the Future of Mobile Interpretation that Koven imagines, a label is but one kind of stop, and is networked into all the content from the other sources – artist, art historians, learned amateurs (in the French sense) that you can imagine… I can definitely see small digital screens run on watch batteries replacing the paper-mounted label eventually, and offering a broader range of both content and functionality through integrated RF or Wifi. But the technology behind the label is not important; getting the content right is.

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