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- Maritime Museum kicks off $2m IT overhaul
- The project will result in a brand new infrastructure from beginning to end, with the aim to eliminate a number of disparate and siloed systems, by Chloe Herrick (CIO). Computerworld, 27 July, 2011. "The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) has kicked off a $2 million ICT infrastructure overhaul project in an effort to align numerous lacklustre siloed IT systems, according to its head of information services, Karen Holt..."
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- Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus now available via our API!
- by Seb Chan. fresh + new(er) - discussion of issues around digital media and museums, June 2nd, 2011. "Luke Dearnley is at LOD-LAM this week and he and Carlos Arroyo are pleased to publicly announce that the Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus is now available through our API. The Object Name Thesaurus was developed by the Powerhouse Museum to standardise the terms used to describe its own collection. It was first published in 1995 as the Powerhouse Museum Collection Thesaurus. Since then, many new terms have been added to the thesaurus within the Powerhouse’s collection information and management system. The print version has long been popular with collecting institutions to assist in the documentation of their own collections..."
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- The Smithsonian goes virtual at SXSWi
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.GovFresh, March 15, 2011. "In the face of adversity, Gov 2.0 will find a way. This morning, the Smithsonian's director of Web and new media strategy, Michael Peter Edson, was unable to attend the Innovating and Developing with Libraries, Museums, and Archives panel at SXSW Interactive, 2011. Instead of leaving a hole in the program, he created a video about his work, below, and tweeted out links to the Smithsonian Commons, the Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy and a presentation on prototyping..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Powerhouse Museum to launch open access image repository
- New online image bank will incorporate Gov 2.0 principles and social media, by Tim Lohman - Computerworld. CIO, 1 November, 2010. "The Powerhouse Museum has moved to embrace Gov 2.0 principles, announcing plans to create an open-access image repository to showcase the organisations’ extensive image archive. The portal will initially begin with about 5000 images and grow to include the museum’s glass-plate negatives collection, including some 7903 images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection, which documents city and country life in the late 1800s and early 1900s..."
Added: 24 November 2010;
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- Scotland Trailblazes the Use of HTML5 in Museums
- By Curt Hopkins. Read Write Web, November 8, 2010. "The National Museums of Scotland have become the first major museum organization in the world to fully implement HTML5..."
Added: 11 November 2010;
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- Powerhouse adds photos to Flickr Commons
- by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com. ZDNet Australia, 20 June 2008. "Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C have begun adding historical photos to The Commons, Flickr's project to host publicly held images..."
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- British Museum takes collection online
- Kablenet, 13 February 2008. "The British Museum has set up a new website to provide more details of its collection to the public. It has described the launch of its Collection Online as a landmark in its history. It will enable the public to access records for approximately 260,000 objects, making this one of the largest museum collection databases on the web..."
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- Museums for the future
- Kablenet, 18 July 2006. "All the museums in south-west Scotland are to offer online access to their collections. The Scottish Executive has provided almost £280,000 for a three year project, named Future Museum, to set up an integrated website linking all museums between Largs, Kilmarnock, Ayr and Dumfries, it announced on 17 July 2006..."
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- MDA to receive MLA Renaissance funding
- Source: Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. eGov Monitor, 1 March 2006. "The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is funding MDA, the UK’s leading authority on information management in museums, to create Collections Link, an innovative service providing information and advice in all areas of collections management. The service, which is funded through MLA’s Renaissance programme, will include direct advice by telephone as well as an online library of guidelines, fact sheets and standards..."
Added: 2 March 2006;
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