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  • Tehmina Goskar 9:43 pm on 2 July, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Blogs, communication, , , Heritage, historic environment, world heritage   

    Conservation and communication 

    Recently Tom blogged about the prospect of the National Trust’s massive investment into digital technologies, including the web. Electric Acorns is a great new blog started by a an NT employee and devoted to peeling back some of the layers of the great institution in an effort to allow the public and fellow professionals a better insight into all the work the Trust does (see his comment below).

    Institutions involved with promoting, undertaking or advising on the conservation of historic environments and artefacts are not great at communicating their work. I often wonder, if they were, whether the tensions between access and preservation could be better ‘managed’ (to use a phrase en vogue) but at the very least, better understood by the wider public, and whether funders and politicians would regard conservation as being a cultural activity of the highest value to society and therefore less willing to withdraw or withold support (see my post on the Textile Conservation Centre’s closure).

    Interest in history, the past and the environment has never been more keen than it is now. Neither has it been more easy to have your say in front of a global audience with the internet revolution. Why aren’t more institutions involved with conservation adopting open and honest communication with the public through the web in the form of blogs, web forums, podcasts and more? Matthew of Electric Acorns is taking a step forward for his organisation (I do hope they appreciate it). What is everyone else doing? Here’s a short survey. (More …)

     

  • Tom Goskar 11:02 am on 11 August, 2006 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Blogs, , opensource, pas, treasure   

    Portable Antiquities Scheme Blog 

    Today, I’ve just discovered that the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales, have a blog and a whole slew of RSS feeds.

    The PAS blog covers pretty much everything done by the Scheme, from technical notes about the website the the information contained withing the PAS database, to spotlighting particular finds of note. It’s an interesting read for techies and non-techies alike.

    At the time of writing, the latest post covers the scheme’s usage of open source software. It’s nice to read something like this from a fellow heritage professional:

    It should be recognised that IE sucks by now.

    Yes!

    I’m reading the post as I write this, I confess, and it’s just mentioned me as a “guru”. Well I never! Moreimportantly, it’s mentioned that the PAS will be implementing geotagging later in the summer, which is heartening, as I’ve been very keen to see this applied to in a heritage context. Well done, guys!

    Link: Portable Antiquities Scheme blog

     

  • Tom Goskar 12:11 pm on 30 July, 2006 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: archaeolog, , Blogs, participatory, theory   

    Archaeolog: a collaborative archaeology blog 

    Michael Shanks is a well known archaeologist who specialises in theoretical approaches within archaeology. He is one of the growing number of archaeologists who really ‘get it’ when it comes to social media and the internet. Through his blog and various experiments he has grasped the concepts of participatory media by the horns and seen the possibilities and realities that communicative technologies can provide. If you’re reading this because you like archaeology, or you are interested in ‘Web 2.0′, I’d recommend a visit to his site.

    To get to the point of this post, Michael and others have established Archaeolog:

    Archaeolog is a collective weblog dealing in all things archaeological. It is open to the wider archaeological community and cognate fields from academics to field practitioners, from professors to students. We are inclusive and have no agenda other than to foster debate. We are community driven and we wish to provide a place for archaeology at large to be visible to the widest possible audience.

    It’s great to see something like this. I’ve been promoting the use of blogs and social networking within archaeology for a few years now, and to be honest I’ve been a bit blind as to what has been happening in the USA. Expect a few more posts as I delve into some of the experiements in the wonderfully named “collaboratory” at Stanford University.

    Archaeolog is committed to accelerating the debate. With the ability to comment it facilitates immediate feedback and discussion from a broad range of inquirers interested in exploring the archaeological sensibility at large.

    And long may the debate continue, and may many be involved…

     

    • Kate 12:38 pm on 4 August, 2006 Permalink

      Hi,
      I have been searching Technorati’s pages for blogs interested in archaeology and found yours. It is excellent. I have been blogging about my historical and archaeological interests for a few months now and I have found it difficult to meet up with like-minded people. So I have added yours to my favourites today. I love history and my aim is to bring history to people who never really think about it. My blog is a large part of this effort. I am also writing historical novels, not published yet, but maybe one day. I am glad to see that there are other historians/archaeologists out there who realise the enormous potential of the internet and web to promote history and archaeology,
      Kate.
      http://journals.aol.co.uk/bobandkate/AnAnalysisofLife/

    • Henrik 7:15 pm on 23 September, 2006 Permalink

      Well I have read the entries on archaeolog for the past month or so.
      It might be, that Shanks has “grasped the concepts of participatory media by the horns and seen the possibilities and realities that communicative technologies can provide”, but I’m really not impressed with the blog. When you comment on the blog it takes several days for the comment to appear on the post and the author doesn’t always respond – although I have also witnessed some quite active participation from the ‘collaborators’. There are some nice posts, but the part about fostering a debate… well, it seems to be going at a rather slow pace.

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