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ExhibitFiles New Bits Feature [New Window]
The ExhibitFiles Website is a community site for exhibit designers and developers. Almost three years ago now, Ideum worked with theAssociation of Science -Technology Centers and Independent Exhibitions to help design and develop the site. Created with funding from the National Science Foundation, the purpose of the site is share design practices and provide access [...]
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:16:44 -0500 Scholarly content and the cliff edge: the place of subject repositories [New Window]
The famous (and famously reclusive) author J.D. Salinger died on 27 January this year, two days after the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns a day which is celebrated across Scotland and in many parts of the world. Salinger and Burns are of course connected, since the title of Salingers most famous novel, [...]
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:18:27 -0500 Next-Gen Harvesting [New Window]
Metadata harvesting (collecting metadata from others and aggregating it in a collection) is not new. Although there are any number of ways to do this, the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting is often used and has been around for years. It defines a small set of actions that allows anyone to discover what sets of [...]
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:36:24 -0500 Make it Multitouch Workshop at Museums and the Web Conference [New Window]
For the second year in a row, Paul Lacey and I will be hosting a workshop entitled Make it Multitouch at the Museums and the Web conference.Normally, I try to avoid sequels and over the last few years I have delivered one-time workshops onRSS, mashups, and even online video editing. Multitouch is different. As emergent [...]
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:54:29 -0500 A peek inside the 100 multitouch table [New Window]
We continue to see interest in the EM Spectrum multitouch exhibit that we developed with Adventure Science Center late last fall. The exhibit was featured on the popular Engadget blog and our video on YouTube just this week surpassed 40,000 views.Today, I posted a case study about this exhibit on the ExhibitFiles website, underSpace [...]
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:12:39 -0500 The Social Dimension: Interactive Exhibits for the Floor and Web at UVIC [New Window]
At the end of March, I will be teaching a blended (online and in person) course for the Cultural Resource Management program at the University of Victoria (UVIC) in British Columbia. The course is entitled The Social Dimension: Interactive Exhibits for the Floor and Web. A blogged about this a few months ago, now I’m [...]
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:38:07 -0500 ORCID and ISNI: Author, Swineherd, Taxman, Alcohol Researcher [New Window]
At recent meetings I attended in Washington D.C. there was significant hallway discussion about the Open Researcher Contributor Identification (ORCID) initiative. Given the science orientation of the meetings this initiative to resolve the problem of name ambiguity and attribution in scholarly publication was particularly welcomed. As you’ll see if you visit the ORCID site this [...]
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:22 -0500 GestureWorks 1.1 & Open Source Gesture Library [New Window]
We’re excited to announce the release of GestureWorks 1.1 and our open source gesture library! Ideum first released GestureWorks back in December. We’ve recently implemented some performance enhancements in the latest version to further improve a software that was already the best multitouch development environment for Flash.Part of ensuring that GestureWorks continues to evolve as [...]
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:41:30 -0500 Greening ILL Practices study completed [New Window]
In September I hired a firm of environmental impact consultants, California Environmental Associates, to conduct a three-month study of interlibrary loan processes, with an eye toward lowering the carbon footprint of resource sharing operations worldwide. Affordable best practices was our goal. OCLC Research and OCLC Delivery Services co-sponsored the study. Together,the consultants (Aarthi Ananthanarayanan and [...]
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:47:30 -0500 True Multitouch with Adobe Flash [New Window]
Since Adobe announced support for multitouch back in November, there has quite a bit of confusion surrounding Flash multitouch support. Recently, we downloaded an example from Adobe’s site to try out the built-in support for ourselves.Adobe unveiled some multitouch examples using the built-in support found in the beta releases of Adobe AIR 2 and Flash [...]
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:46:29 -0500 Museum Data Exchange - Report Executive Summary [New Window]
The final report of the Museum Data Exchange grant will be released on the OCLC Research website later this month. As a first impression of key outcomes, I’ve posted the executive summary below. Stay tuned!*********The Museum Data Exchange, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together a group of nine museums and OCLC Research [...]
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:57:09 -0500 Libraries and research excellence [New Window]
Last month I mentioned the publication of A comparative review of research assessment regimes in five countries and the role of libraries in the research assessment process, which had been produced for us by Key Perspectives. It is a detailed report, and I also said that wed shortly issue a companion report with some background [...]
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:22 -0500 The Most Important Events at ALA Midwinter [New Window]
A smaller number of us than usual will be going to ALA Midwinter this week, as we are cutting back on expenses just as is everyone else. But we will be there, if in fewer numbers, so I thought it would be good to highlight the most important events for you. Not to put too [...]
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:46:20 -0500 Ideum Portfolio Redesign: WordPress, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube Integration [New Window]
We’ve just launched a redesign of our portfolio site and blog. The site aggregates content from our Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube sites, embedding it in our new website.For now, we’ve added simple links to our Facebook and Linked In pages. We may expand our integration with these sites in the future. Along with extending our [...]
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:25:33 -0500 READABILITY - a new year lagniappe [New Window]
Best wishes to our readers from all of us at hangingtogether and OCLC Research. We’re grateful for the attention you give our thoughts and hope to continue contributing to the design of the future library, archive, and museum. As a final thank-you for the year I urge you to install Readability in your web browser. [...]
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:37:57 -0500 National systems of research assessment and implications for libraries [New Window]
Research assessment is a very big deal in some countries. Countries whose university systems are largely publicly-funded routinely check up on the research quality of individual universities to ensure that they are squeezing the best possible performance out of their systems. They do this because they see a link between high-quality research and economic development. [...]
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:39:29 -0500 Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) - the 2009 conference [New Window]
I’ve recently returned from the Netherlands (Holland as the locals call it and Rotterdam to be more specific) where I attended the 2009 Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference (DISH2009). The main organizers of the conference are the Netherlands Institute for Heritage and the DEN foundation. The latter organization, Digital Heritage Netherlands is the Dutch national [...]
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:37:09 -0500 100" Multitouch Table Exhibit Exploring The Electromagnetic Spectrum [New Window]
This week we are installing a number of new technology-based exhibits
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:12:51 -0400 A View of the Moon from Chaco Culture National Park [New Window]
Last week, I was part of a group of amateur astronomers who attempted to capture NASA’s LCROSS mission impact from Chaco Canyon. As I mentioned in an earlier post , I first tried my hand at astrophotography the weekend before the event.The photograph below was taken just after the spacecraft impact early in the morning [...]
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:51:06 -0400 Ideum Featured in Trend Magazine [New Window]
Ideum is featured in latest issue of Santa Fe’s Trend Magazine. ”Trend explores and celebrates the unique and fascinating intermingling of cultural influences, tradition, and innovation in art, architecture, and designin Santa Fe, the Southwest, and beyond.” The article talks about our multitouch table and other interactive exhibits in the magazine’s Business Profiles section. You [...]
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:20:28 -0400 If I only [New Window]
I was thinking about language again (as I often do, in a lackadaisical sort of way), and about language changes that have happened within my lifetime - how catch phrases and catch words rise, achieve ephemeral popularity, and then mostly fade away to become tomorrow’s curios. When I was at university in the mid-80s, ‘mega’ [...]
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:22:06 -0400 A suitable case for tweetment [New Window]
On Wednesday last I attended a talk at Te Papa by Tee Morris about social media. Much of the stuff I was already familiar with - blogging, YouTube, Ning, Bebo, Facebook, Flickr and so on. As far as I know, I was the first person to use Flickr for collection images (glad to see the [...]
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:00:54 -0400 Pique condition [New Window]
Via I can no longer remember where, this week I discovered the concept of eggcorns (something I had earlier mentally tagged as verbal mondegreens). Hours of endless fun for those who, like me, are easily amused by quote on quote unintended humour. When I don’t find it mildly irritating, that is.
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:16 -0400 Im back [New Window]
So finally I get around to updating the blog. Why the long lay-off? Partly because with moving to a new job on the other side of the world - as far as you can go, without starting to come back - I’ve been preoccupied, and partly because my new job has taken me to a [...]
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:07:21 -0500 Sound of Museums Revisited [New Window]
List Ev’ry ObjectList ev’ry objectSearch high and lowName, location, donor,And all you need to knowList ev’ry objectMake sure your schemeWill comply with Spectrum.It’s like a bad dream.A scheme that will listAll the stuff in the store.It would not be so badIf it weren’t such a bore.List ev’ry objectMake sure your schemeWill comply with SpectrumIt’s like [...]
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:08:20 -0400 Inside out [New Window]
Insider or outsider? I’ve always felt that I am an outsider, but is that how I’m seen? Or am I really part of the museums establishment in Scotland? Though I never aimed to be or wanted to be, and though I can’t see myself as The Man, maybe that role is now mine. So we [...]
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:08:38 -0400 Leaving on a jet plane [New Window]
I’ve been extremely dilatory about this blog since April last year. The intervening months have been a bit weird to be honest. I went with my family to visit my brother in New Zealand again (and hang the expense!) last summer*. While I was there I had an interview for a job. Since then, I’ve [...]
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:33:05 -0500 Thickipedia [New Window]
I see that today’s (20th April 2007) featured article on Wikipedia is Yosemite National Park. So lots of morons are deleting the main article, seemingly unaware that being a wiki we can see the old versions anyway. Sigh.
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:17:55 -0400 Blogging the train from Merced to Martinez [New Window]
The bus from Yosemite made good time and actually arrived at Merced Amtrak station early. The station itself is just a small building, and there’s no caf - but you can buy drinks and unhealthy snacks from a machine, so I naturally made use of them. The train was perfectly on time, but I did [...]
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:41:37 -0400 Yosemite Falls - and I dont [New Window]
After two sunny days, today was more cloudy. Indeed it was snowing all day - just flurries, and nothing sticking. It didn’t seem to me to be cold enough for snow, but maybe I’m becoming acclimatised to Scotland. Certainly Yosemite Creek was full of slush formed from the spray from the fall, though with the [...]
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:14:26 -0400
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