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  Tehmina Goskar 10:36 am on 5 August, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  New International Heritage and Conservation News blog 

  It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely at the professional with public understanding of conservation lower than it might be.

  ICOMOS-UK’s new website, based around a blog, is now live. After a marathon month of literally pulling up the hand-break on this web project and changing direction, a completely new and different approach was taken to help the organisation make the most of the web and its audience: quickly and all on a shoe-string [note: what on earth are 'shoe-strings' in this sense?] Without going into too much detail about the background to this, the original plan for a redeveloped website, overseen and directed by me, especially the creation of new content, but technically put together by a company who had promised to sponsor the project, fell through.
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    Benjamin Chesterton 1:00 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

    Hi,

    enyoy this website with lots of solid thinking about heritage and communication which is really important but often gets lost along the way.

    This might interest you … its a audio slideshow that celebrates the heritage of Brunel. The photographer, David White, rebuilt the camera that was famously used to photograph Brunel in 1857 and then travelled around Britain photographing Brunels work … nuts but the photographs are really amazing .. its this kind of stuff that I think gives people a window into heritage. http://www.duckrabbit.info/brunel … more of our stuff can be seen at http://www.duckrabbit.info THANKS

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    Tom Goskar 1:24 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

    Hi Benjamin,

    I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed some of our posts!

    Thanks for the link to David White’s photos – they really are amazing. I might mention it on here – fascinating stuff…

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    Benjamin Chesterton 12:06 pm on 6 September, 2008 Permalink

    Tom, thanks for your post and kind works.

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  Tom Goskar 2:40 pm on 7 August, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  lamusediffuse – Libya and the social web 

  I was recently sent information about a project called “lamusediffuse“, an interesting project which aims to increase global awareness of Libyan museums and their collections via the web.

  lamusediffuse proposes the use of Social Web tools for the inclusion of not-dominant cultural expressions in the scopes of culture diffusion on the Internet. Accordingly with this objective, the project “Museums in Libya” is focused on two starting facts, the first is the lack of information about Libyan museums available in the website of the International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM) and the second is the apparent lack of museum websites in this country.

  Their approach seems pretty much spot on to me. Set up and carefully tend Flickr and del.icio.us accounts, blog (about the phenomenon of interacting with museums using the social web), have a wiki, publish presentations on Slideshare.

  I hope that this approach works well for them – it will be an interesting experiment to see if they can lift their museums from relative obscurity. I’ll certainly try and keep up with their project – it’s exactly the kind of approach that I evangelise about.

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    lamusediffuse 12:46 pm on 8 December, 2007 Permalink

    Thank you so much for your support and nice words. We continue with the project "Museums in Libya 2.0" getting very good images and developing the information. Also we have started another project called Museum of Iraq 2.0 on Iraqi art, artifacts and cultural heritage disseminated in collections from all over the world trying to gather the art works which belonged to the looted National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad or are part of the Iraqi Heritage and currently belong to other museums’ collections.

    Your collaboration will be more than welcome!

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  Tom Goskar 8:58 am on 15 February, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us 

  [UPDATE] John Battelle has posted an interview with Michael Wesch, who has agreed to answer questions in the blog’s comments section.

  Tony Gill on the Museums Computer Group email list, pointed out a video that covers the major issues that come under the ‘Web 2.0′ umbrella. It puts a lot of today’s issues in context by providing a short history of semantics on the web, and was put created by Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University. Interestingly, he is an assistant professor of anthropology, as opposed to a computer scientist, which is why I think that his interpretation is quite unique.

  It is a thought provoking video, accompanied by some suitably electronic music, and well worth the 5 minutes that it lasts.

  And when you have finished watching the video, head over to Wesch’s Digital Ethnography website to see some of the reactions, and even video responses. This is a fascinating project to watch.

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