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[mint1eaves]

Someone who cares… Short comic, Pinkamena by AviAlexis25 New Comic I made… yay?

[museumstudies]

Archives in Time and Space

Just finished editing the audio file with a (virtual) roundtable conversation between Simona Caraceni, AVICOM member and president of ICOM Italy's Thematic Committee on Audiovisuals and New Technologies for Museums, and myself, addressing digital archives' best practices, challenges, and requirements.

Should be out by mid-June in both Italian and English...

[museumstudies]

Just out on Slideshare, this presentation is a slightly enhanced version of the one with which I introduced, on behalf of ICOM Italy, its "Commissione tematica per gli Audiovisivi e le Nuove Tecnologie" [Thematic Committee for Audiovisual and New Technologies], and ICOM-AVICOM, CDCH 2012, a Satellite Workshop at VL/HCC 2012 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, 4 October 2012).

The issue at stake is: is it enough to develop a complex cultural heritage related project with heavy technological implications, in order to apply it anytime, anywhere?

Hint: Flexibility - in the sense of re-thinking not just a project, but even our approach to technology and standards - is what makes the difference between a perfectly feasible solution in a certain context, and its perfect uselessness in a different one...

[museumstudies]

"Fourth Dimension"

Just finished editing the English version of the text I'll read along with my presentation in Innsbruck at the Cultural Heritage workshop next Thursday.

Its full title is "Fourth Dimension: Planning a Prototype". It ows some to Gibson (William), and also to Isaac Asimov... and to Aqsakal, of course!

Will post it here, after the meeting. Stay tuned  :-)

[hitechmuseum-blog]

9th March: Deadline for call for papers

only two days left to submit proposals for Montreal AVICOM Conference

Here is the form

[hitechmuseum-blog]

The AVICOM Committee’s 2012 Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada from October 9–12, 2012, during the same time as the AVICOM Committee’s annual meeting.

The Conference will be followed by the Festival international de l’Audiovisuel et du Multimédia sur le Patrimoine(FIAMP), a competition that salutes the best achievements of museums worldwide in a number of categories. Visits to various Montreal  museums are planned for the final day of the Conference, Friday, October 12, 2012. In addition, a “Guide to Suggested Activities” will be provided to those participants who would like to extend their stay in Montreal through the following weekend. From 200 to 300 AVICOM members are expected to attend. 

The Conference will provide the opportunity to hear presentations from specialists in new sound and image technologies from around the world who work for museums, design educational programs, head art conservation efforts, create content or are interested in mapping the future development of these new technologies.

[museumstudies]

AVICOM, Long Needed… Focusing on audiovisual and new technologies for museums, AVICOM is the resource museum professionals look for when dealing with issues of computerization of collections, maintenance of digital data and preservation of a digital memory. Starting from today, ICOM's international committee finally has a thematic commission affiliated to AVICOM: after a rather long process, Simona Caraceni, already a member AVICOM's Executive Board, was elected as Coordinator of ICOM Italy's thematic commission at a meeting of ICOM members and other interested people at MAMbo, the Modern Art Museum of the City of Bologna. It was indeed long needed - digital documentation of collections does resolve many a problem in museum management and communication. It also gives birth to new ones, however: How is digital memory best to be preserved through time? How does it withstand technology change, obsolescence of both hardware and software? How can it be called to serve us, even after the technical setting that saw its flourishing days has long given way to a new, possibly very different one? How is a given solution to be integrated in a new, open source friendlier approach? These issue - and many more - will challenge the youngest among the thematic commissions of ICOM Italy. There's a lot to be done - but it is a good start, at last.

Editor's note, The Museum Studies Weekly (18 November 2011)

[hitechmuseum-blog]

I'm proud to show you the new AVICOM website

http://avicom.icom.museum/

You can find here all the previous section of the old website, and also Twitter and Facebook page.

More news will come in the next days, so stay tuned!