Author: athina
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Towards a National Collection: massive digital access to heritage
Towards a National Collection is an initiative to create a unified virtual collection of art and heritage housed among the United Kingdom’s cultural institutions. The project has a five-year timeline, which will set collaboration and communication amongst professionals in the sector and easy access to heritage for all. The project answers a real need for…
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MetoDHology: a resource you need!
MetoDHology is a platform for free access to various resources on digital methodologies. The resource is open and community-based, with detailed and current information on the subject. Centre for Digital Humanities at the Australian National University created this tool to give easy access to everyone seeking digital methodologies. You can find articles on multidisciplinary topics,…
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Experience a cultural memory: MEMEX APP
MEMEX, MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling project join cultural heritage, memory and augmented reality designed with marginalised communities. The project started in 2019 to address the need for social cohesion through cultural heritage, interpreting its relationship with place, memory and stories into an augmented reality experience accessed with your phone. © MEMEX MEMEX…
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REGISTER NOW: CC Global Summit
The annual CC Global Summit will take place virtually between 20-24 September bringing current exciting panels, topics and tutorials! Creative Commons promises a week of creativity, discussion and collaboration with their second virtual summit marking their 20th anniversary! The event offers a great program and pay-what-you-can tickets granting everyone full access. Creative Commons is one…
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I DIG Dinosaurs: Wyoming Dinosaur Center
Wyoming Dinosaur Center is a museum, laboratory and active dig site at Thermopolis, USA. In 1993 fossil collections were unearthed at Warm Springs Ranch, prompting scientific research. The numerous finds required storage or display rather than shipping them to natural history museums around the States, a museum was built near the site opting to keep…
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Archaeogaming: Video Games as Archaeological Sites
Archaeogaming is a blog on archaeology and video games, created in 2013. The blog discusses archaeology as featured in video games as well as interpretation of video games as archaeological sites. Games and virtual heritage are a growing concept within cultural heritage and archaeology. While the vast majority of heritage institutions are only now discovering…
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Curated Reading List: August 2021
Your curated reading list is out! August was loaded with appealing concepts, new digital applications and news-good and bad-; many of which we could not cover in our pieces. Have a look: Rethinking The Language We Use to Describe What We Do. Read article here. Why should museums invest in digital condition reporting?. Read article…
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New: Museums and Heritage Student Volunteering Toolkit
Museums and Heritage Student Volunteering Toolkit, published 25 August by GEM, is a comprehensive guide written by Holly Bastable, an MA student at Kingston University Museum & Gallery Studies. The toolkit is an excellent resource for volunteers in culture, as covers in-depth all aspects of volunteering in the UK. The culture sector depends heavily on…
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Have you digitised your collection yet?
Check out MuseumNext’s Digital Collection Summit 4 – 6 October 2021, learn from the experience of professionals and get inspired for your project! Digitising a collection and making it accessible is not an easy task. Digitisation was a necessary tool for conservation, however, the COVID-19 pandemic set digital content as a mandatory tool for audience…
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Review: Home Galleries and Rooms Through Time
Duration: Permanent display Location: Museum of the Home, London The Museum of the Home, previously known as the Geffrye Museum, has recently reopened, since its closure in 2018, featuring an £18million upgrade and redeveloped spaces. Situated in almshouses built three centuries ago, in East London, it has come a long way from the straightforward 20th-century…