Museums on the Web 2013 (MCG)

The Museums Computer Group’s 2013 Museums on the Web conference was held at Tate Modern on 15 November 2013. The theme for UKMW13 was ‘Power to the People’. Links, photos, slides and further information are available at: http://bit.ly/1hi19NB

Time		Session		Speakers
9.30		Registration. Tea and coffee sponsored by Squiz. Game: ‘Curate-a-Fact’ begins.
10:00-10.20		Chair’s welcome, venue welcome and sponsor welcome		Mia Ridge, MCG John Stack, Tate Bert Degenhart Drenth, AdLib
10.20-10.50		Opening Keynote Lessons the Guardian has learnt about community engagement online		Hannah Freeman, Guardian Community coordinator for culture
10.50-11.20		Tea and coffee break, sponsored by Squiz.
11.20-12.20		Learn and play (inside and outside the organisation) Chair: Andrew Lewis, V&A
		First Rule: Talking about Computer Club		Jesse Alter and Simon Delafond, Imperial War Museums (IWM)
		The power of Flickr Commons		Nicole Cama, Australian National Maritime Museum
		Ten Most Wanted: Hunting down missing information about cultural artefacts		Marcus Winter, University of Brighton; Susan Lambert, Arts University Bournemouth; Phil Blume, Adaptive Technologies
12.20-12:50		MCG Annual General Meeting
12:50-1:50		Lunch break, sponsored by Stickyworld
1:50-2:20		Lightning talks Chair: Irida Ntalla
		Jane Finnis, Culture24 – Let’s Get Real. James Morley- GathrIt, a prototype toolset to enable discovery, crowdsourcing and sharing across cultural collections Sarah Saunders, Electric Lane- Attribution – the scandal of lost images on the web Marcus Winter, University of Brighton- Social Object Labels Franziska Mucha, Historisches Museum Frankfurt – Frankfurt Now! an interactive city mode
2:30-3:10		Grassroots meets technology Chair: Anra Kennedy
		Using algorithms and people to put a large radio archive on the web		Tristan Ferne, BBC Research & Development
		‘A great place: a lawless hole with rancid drinks and reckless drunks…’ Multiple voices, multiple memories: Public history-making and activist archivism in online popular music archives.		Paul Long, Birmingham Music Archive / Birmingham City University
3:10-3:40		Tea and coffee break, sponsored by Squiz
3:40-4:40		Communities and citizen history Chair: Juno Rae, Museum of London
		Crowdsourcing a Community Collection (and the After Effects)		Kate Lindsay, Alun Edwards & Ylva Berglund-Prytz, University of Oxford
		IT buddies, virtual volunteers and super-users: Building an online community for Britain from Above		Sandra Brauer, English Heritage
		Diaries of the First World War: Citizen history on the Western Front		Jim O’Donnell (Oxford University)
4.50-5.20		Closing Keynote		Michael John Gorman, Science Gallery
5:20-5:30		Wrap-up and close