In 2012 The Science Museum received a confirmed award of £6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a new gallery, Making Making Modern Communications. It will tell the story of 200 years of innovation in communication technology and focuses on how people connect and share information with each other. The gallery is set to open in Autumn 2014.
For further information see:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/press_and_media/press_releases/2012/04/HLF%20Award.aspx
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Fundus
The Operational Media Archive of 'epistemological toys', or Fundus, as it is also called is based at the Berlin Humboldt University Institute for Media Studies. Of the Archive, Jussi Parikka has written:
For further information see:
http://www.medientheorien.hu-berlin.de/fundus
Branded as an archive of
media-epistemological toys, the name captures the two-fold mission of the
place, materiality and play/learning: first through a concrete hands-n approach
to investigating the non-linguistic modes of media objects, that they do not
speak in human languages, but there seeming silence as artefacts can hide a
very active, other kind of processuality; and second, that this epistemological
gaze is seen as a playful attitude of engagement and a didactic media-archaeological
method of learning how hardware is coupled with discourse: in other words how
modern (technical) media are a coupling of symbolic mathematical operations
with the hardware in which they become an engineered signal (p. 131).
For further information see:
http://www.medientheorien.hu-berlin.de/fundus
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Europeana 1989: We Made History!
Europeana 1989 is pan-European project concerning the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989; commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The project aims to create a vivid and complete picture of the revolutionary events in Europe with stories, photos, videos and sound recordings from every country affected. Personal stories, memories and experiences can help others to better understand what it was like and to see events from a different perspective.
By collecting personal memorabilia and stories from this period, and combining it with institutional collections, Europeana aims to create an engaging user experience.
All items are shared online at www.europeana1989.eu
The project aims to create a vivid and complete picture of the revolutionary events in Europe with stories, photos, videos and sound recordings from every country affected. Personal stories, memories and experiences can help others to better understand what it was like and to see events from a different perspective.
By collecting personal memorabilia and stories from this period, and combining it with institutional collections, Europeana aims to create an engaging user experience.
All items are shared online at www.europeana1989.eu
Memory of the World Digi Declaration
In September 2012, UNESCO hosted the Memory of the World Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Shortly after the event, UNESCO released the ‘Vancouver Declaration on Digitisation and Preservation’, available here:
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/unesco_ubc_vancouver_declaration_en.pdf
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/unesco_ubc_vancouver_declaration_en.pdf
Digital Public Spaces
This publication gathers a range of short explorations of the idea of the Digital Public Space.
They examine the future development of the internet as a zone of engagement as web technologies mature, mobile access becomes dominant and new devices allow us to consume, learn, create and share with each other:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/153c3F0h1d0a19093u3J/DPS.pdf
The central vision of the Digital Public Space is to give everyone everywhere unrestricted access to an open resource of culture and knowledge.
They examine the future development of the internet as a zone of engagement as web technologies mature, mobile access becomes dominant and new devices allow us to consume, learn, create and share with each other:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/153c3F0h1d0a19093u3J/DPS.pdf
The central vision of the Digital Public Space is to give everyone everywhere unrestricted access to an open resource of culture and knowledge.
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Google Open Gallery
Google's new initiative Open Gallery gives free tools for artists, museums, archives and galleries to create galleries:
http://www.google.com/opengallery
More about the initiative can be found here:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/12/10/google-launches-open-gallery-help-museum-gallery-create-online-exhibits/#!px1eH
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http://www.google.com/opengallery
More about the initiative can be found here:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/12/10/google-launches-open-gallery-help-museum-gallery-create-online-exhibits/#!px1eH
Terms and Conditions are as follows:
Your Content in our Platform
Our Platform allows you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.Our Platform will give you the option to make your content discoverable either (a) narrowly, through Google Open Gallery only; or (b) broadly, through both Google Open Gallery and other Google products and services (collectively, the "Discoverability Options").
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Platform, you give Google (and those we work with) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Platform), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content according to the Discoverability Options you select through the Platform.
The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating and promoting the Platform, and improving the discoverability of your content according to the Discoverability Options you select through the Platform.
You can access and remove your content from the Platform at any time, and we will stop using the content that you provided through the Platform as soon as our systems are able to delete the content from our licensed content databases. Also, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted through the Platform. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Platform.
You are solely responsible for the selection and organization of your content on the Platform. Your use of the Platform is subject to the Google Open Gallery Content Policy. We may suspend or stop providing the Platform to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies.
Because we believe you should decide whether and how to directly monetize your content, you can choose to monetize your content through the Platform; Google will not charge fees for, display advertisements alongside, or otherwise monetize your content through the Platform. If you select a Discoverability Option that allows your content to be broadly discoverable through other Google products and services, the advertising and monetization policies of those other Google products and services will apply.
If you have a Google Account, we may display your Profile name, Profile photo, and actions you take on Google or on third-party applications connected to your Google Account (such as +1s, reviews you write and comments you post) in our Platform, including displaying in ads and other commercial contexts. We will respect the choices you make to limit sharing or visibility settings in your Google Account. For example, you can choose your settings so your name and photo do not appear in an ad.
You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Platform. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Platform, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.
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