February 7: Working and Sharing Online
Readings
- Marla Misunas and Richard Urban, “A Brief History of the Museum Computer Network, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (Taylor and Francis, 2009).http://mcn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HistoryofMCN.pdf Estimated Read Time: 14 minutes
- Nancy, Proctor, “Digital: Museum as Platform, Curator as Champion, in the Age of Social Media,” Curator: The Museum Journal 53, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 35–43, 35-43. doi:10.1111/j.2151-6952.2009.00006.x. Estimated Read Time: 11 minutes
- Benjamin Zweig, “Forgotten Genealogies: Brief Reflections on the History of Digital Art History,” 2015. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dah/article/view/21633. Estimated Read Time: 14 minutes
- “On Digital Content Strategy.” SFMOMA, https://www.sfmoma.org/read/on-digital-content-strategy/. Estimated Read Time: 4 minutes
- River Glegg, “Honest Museum Audio Tour,” The New Yorker,” December 5, 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/honest-museum-audio-tour. Estimated Read Time: 3 minutes
- Erika Hall, “Interviewing Humans,” A List Apart, September 10, 2013 in Just Enough Research. A Book Apart, (2013), https://alistapart.com/article/interviewing-humans Estimated Read Time: 5 minutes
Resources: Library of articles addressing onsite and online museum attendance: https://www.zotero.org/groups/44286/onlineonsite_museum_visitation?
Activities
Morning (9am-12pm)
9-10:15: Introductions and discuss readings
Please tweet/post about your experiences #networkedcurator
What does this group of curators like to do when they visit a museum?
How do you compare with the August Cohort?
10:15-30: Break
10:30-12: Digital systems in Museums, and digital art history
- There and Back Again: A Packet’s Tale (video)
- Overview of digital museum systems: http://slides.com/sbrennan/cms-or-cms#/
- What are art museums and art historians doing digitally? http://networkedcurator.doingdh.org/digital-art-history-web/
Lunch (12-1pm)
Afternoon (1-4pm)
1-2:15pm: Digital Project Planning:http://bit.ly/NCworksheets
Make copies of worksheets and copy them into your own Google Drive, so you can work on them this afternoon.
- Big ideas
- Finding Similar Projects
Work in small groups on planning worksheets:
- Shanice Bailey, Christa Clarke, Fabian Wolf, Victoria Gerard
- Austen Barron Bailly,Rose Bouthillier,Danisha Baker-Whitaker, Andrew Eschelbacher
- Victoria Lyall, Tamera Muente, Logan Sisley
- Haley Berkman, Staci Steinberger, Gilbert Vicario
2:15-30pm: Break
2:30-3:45 pm:
- Assessing Resources (Worksheet 3)
- Identifying Audiences and Stakeholders (Worksheets 4 and 5)
Work in small groups on planning worksheets
3:45-4:00pm :
Come together and wrap up the day.