A small digest of what I’m reading today. All similar as they all involve technology in some way.
- Machine-readable Labelling – the way ahead?
- Nick Poole at OpenCulture talks about RFID tags and collection management
- Historical Gaming
- I’ve often said that more people learnt more about WWII from the Medal of Honour games. Seem Microsoft will throw money at this to find out more. Krista McCracken at Historical Reminiscents has more.
- Finding problems for QR tags to solve
- I love QR tags (if you hadn’t guessed). I think they could act like same the user end of what Nick Poole is talking about.
- “Commons Recommendations” Greasemonkey Script
- This is what I call innovative. Mostly Greasemonkey is mostly used to remove ads in Myspace or change CSS in Google. This script helps deliver some content.
- Museum Lovers’ social networking
- Can anyone tell me where this social network actually is?
In answer to your final question, this social network for museum lovers is the National Museums Online Learning Project to be launched on Wednesday (25th Feb). It’s not located in a single place but is two main elements distributed across the partners’ websites, i.e. 9 national museums. The two main elements are Creative Spaces, which the article covers primarily, and Webquests for schools. Watch press later this week for more coverage. I think the British Museum’s Creative Space is already live today.
The BM tweeted their link today: http://bm.nmolp.org/creativespaces/ It’s not too hard to work out what the other acronyms are based on visible URLs.
Seems like it’s a great week for museum and gallery open access and the beginning of the mass personalization of museum and art objects. Would be great if it’s also emotional and dramatic;)