NEW YORK, November 1, 2016 — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Digital Preservation Coalition announced the formation of a Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives. The task force is charged with assessing current frameworks, tools, and approaches being taken toward these critical historical sources. Christopher Prom, assistant university archivist/Andrew S. G. Turyn Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Kate Murray, IT specialist in the Technology Policy Directorate at the Library of Congress, will serve as cochairs of the task force.
MWXX Just-in-time registration closes March 19th (save $100)
Last call to register with Just-in-Time fee for the 20th Annual Conference of Museums and the Web (Los Angeles, April 6 – 9, 2016).
The Just-in-Time conference registration rate is $800. The rate will go up to $900 after March 19th, 2016.
The conference will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles.
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Still time to submit proposals for Lightning Talks, Demos and Exhibitor Briefings for MWXX
We are still accepting Museums and the Web 2016 proposals for demos, lighting talks, and exhibitor briefings until Dec 31, 2015. If your initial proposal was not included in the draft program published on Dec 1, feel free to resubmit your topic if it also suits one of these other formats.
Please submit your proposals here.
Check out the MWXX draft program.
Early Registration is now open for MWXX
Join us in Los Angeles for the 20th annual Museums and the Web conference: April 6-9, 2016 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA.
Get our discounted Early Registration rate and reserve your room at our discounted conference rate at the spectacular Millennium Biltmore Hotel hotel.
Early Registration is open until Dec 31 2015.
Digital, audience and engagement strategy survey
We would like to hear about your vision for the future of museums, where we are today and the best way to move forward. In particular, we’d like to find out where your institution stands in terms of digital, audience and engagement strategy with these 10 questions. The estimated time to complete this survey is 5 minutes.
A preliminary report of your responses will be presented on October 8 during the Museums and the Web Asia 2015 conference, and a full report will be available online thereafter. This survey is done in cooperation with Axiell and we sincerely appreciate your time and insights into the state of the art in our field!
The MW2016 Los Angeles call for proposals closes September 30th.
MW2016 is the 20th annual Museums and the Web conference and will be held in April 6-9, 2016, at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel, in Downtown Los Angeles.
The call for proposals closes September 30th.
The MW2016 program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies – wherever the network may reach.
There are more than a dozen ways to participate in Museums and the Web!
- Contribute to MWX, Museums and the Web’s new digital exhibition initiative: propose exhibits and interactive experiences as well as written papers and presentations about transformative uses of technology in museum studies, digital curating and/or contemporary art practice. Full papers (required, up to 5,000 words) will be peer-reviewed and considered for publication in the digital and printed proceedings of the conference. Sept 30 is the deadline for formal papers and sessions; Dec 31 for demonstrations of digital experiences emerging from or inspiring contemporary art practice.
- Offer a Pre-conference Workshop: Are you an expert in your field? Share your expertise by leading a half-day or full-day pre-conference workshop! Workshops are held the day before the conference begins and workshop leaders are compensated for their teaching. No written paper is required.
- Present a Formal Paper: Share your leading work in the field through a written paper (required, up to 5,000 words) and an oral presentation in a conference session (approx. 20 min. plus discussion). All formal papers are published on the Museums and the Web site, and selected papers are published in the printed proceedings of the conference. Formal papers should go beyond demonstrating a single project (“demonstrations” are the correct proposal type for single project presentations) and aim at distilling critical learnings that will be broadly applicable in the field (i.e. beyond the organization of origin). To avoid taking on an ‘advertorial’ or promotional tone, panels should include museum professionals or representatives of a cultural non-profit if the lead proposers are commercial partners.
- Lead a Professional Forum: Convene a one-hour discussion or debate about timely and critical topics of interest to the museum community. No written paper is required.
- Teach a How-to Session: You have one hour to demonstrate and teach a practical skill or best practices for a museum topic. A written version of your session (required, up to 2,500 words) will be published on the Museums and the Web site to serve as an on-going reference both for attendees of your session and others.
- Demonstrate your project and explain the designs and the decisions that went into it to colleagues in an exhibit-booth setting. Demonstrations are only open to museum professionals and projects created in a non-profit environment. Commercial organizations are invited to demonstrate their products and projects in Exhibitor Briefings.
- Give a Lightning Talk in a 1.5 hour session that includes 10 lightning talks of 7 minutes each. [N.B. changed session format] Slides and recordings of the lightning talks will be published on the Museums and the Web site, and presenters are invited to blog about their topics (up to 1,000 words) on the MW site.
- Propose and lead an Unconference Session: topics are selected by attendees during the first day of the conference so the conversation can continue throughout our time together.
- Participate in a Crit Room: Panels of leaders in the museum field will provide a free assessment of your web or mobile project for accessibility and other best practices. Sign up before the conference for a critique on a first-come, first served basis (approximately four projects can be assessed in each 1.5 hour crit session).
- Participate in a “Birds of a Feather” round-table: lead the discussion or dip into several while enjoying breakfast with colleagues. Topics are proposed by participants during the MW conference in the run-up to the breakfast.
- Participate in Best of the Web: propose your project or vote for your favorites! Help us share the best of museums’ digital work in a wide range of categories to inspire the global community. Nominations for the Best of the Web awards open in February each year.
- Exhibit your commercial products and services in the Exhibit Hall.
- Give an Exhibitor Briefings on recent projects and new commercial products.
- Propose a tour in your community. Submit the tour proposal for the pre-conference tour day (Tuesday) of the conference week.
- Join the Local Committee and help showcase the Los Angeles cultural scenes!
- Be there: the best part of MW is always meeting informally with some of the most creative and innovative museum professionals from around the world and enjoying the warmth and generosity of this community. Join us!
Performances? Hack-a-thons? Maker Faires? Other interactions or services?
Propose any other format of participation + explain how it works. We’re open to new ideas.
Many thanks for your help! We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!
Rich & Nancy
Rich Cherry & Nancy Proctor Co-chairs,
Museums and the Web 2016
Call for proposals for Museums and the Web 2016
We are delighted to announce that we have launched the call for proposals for Museums and the Web 2016 (MW2016). MW2016 is the 20th annual Museums and the Web conference and will be held in April 6-9, 2016, at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel, in Downtown Los Angeles.
The call for proposals closes September 30th.
The MW2016 program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies – wherever the network may reach.
There are more than a dozen ways to participate in Museums and the Web!
- Contribute to MWX, Museums and the Web’s new digital exhibition initiative: propose exhibits and interactive experiences as well as written papers and presentations about transformative uses of technology in museum studies, digital curating and/or contemporary art practice. Full papers (required, up to 5,000 words) will be peer-reviewed and considered for publication in the digital and printed proceedings of the conference. Sept 30 is the deadline for formal papers and sessions; Dec 31 for demonstrations of digital experiences emerging from or inspiring contemporary art practice.
- Offer a Pre-conference Workshop: Are you an expert in your field? Share your expertise by leading a half-day or full-day pre-conference workshop! Workshops are held the day before the conference begins and workshop leaders are compensated for their teaching. No written paper is required.
- Present a Formal Paper: Share your leading work in the field through a written paper (required, up to 5,000 words) and an oral presentation in a conference session (approx. 20 min. plus discussion). All formal papers are published on the Museums and the Web site, and selected papers are published in the printed proceedings of the conference. Formal papers should go beyond demonstrating a single project (“demonstrations” are the correct proposal type for single project presentations) and aim at distilling critical learnings that will be broadly applicable in the field (i.e. beyond the organization of origin). To avoid taking on an ‘advertorial’ or promotional tone, panels should include museum professionals or representatives of a cultural non-profit if the lead proposers are commercial partners.
- Lead a Professional Forum: Convene a one-hour discussion or debate about timely and critical topics of interest to the museum community. No written paper is required.
- Teach a How-to Session: You have one hour to demonstrate and teach a practical skill or best practices for a museum topic. A written version of your session (required, up to 2,500 words) will be published on the Museums and the Web site to serve as an on-going reference both for attendees of your session and others.
- Demonstrate your project and explain the designs and the decisions that went into it to colleagues in an exhibit-booth setting. Demonstrations are only open to museum professionals and projects created in a non-profit environment. Commercial organizations are invited to demonstrate their products and projects in Exhibitor Briefings.
- Give a Lightning Talk in a 1.5 hour session that includes 10 lightning talks of 7 minutes each. [N.B. changed session format] Slides and recordings of the lightning talks will be published on the Museums and the Web site, and presenters are invited to blog about their topics (up to 1,000 words) on the MW site.
- Propose and lead an Unconference Session: topics are selected by attendees during the first day of the conference so the conversation can continue throughout our time together.
- Participate in a Crit Room: Panels of leaders in the museum field will provide a free assessment of your web or mobile project for accessibility and other best practices. Sign up before the conference for a critique on a first-come, first served basis (approximately four projects can be assessed in each 1.5 hour crit session).
- Participate in a “Birds of a Feather” round-table: lead the discussion or dip into several while enjoying breakfast with colleagues. Topics are proposed by participants during the MW conference in the run-up to the breakfast.
- Participate in Best of the Web: propose your project or vote for your favorites! Help us share the best of museums’ digital work in a wide range of categories to inspire the global community. Nominations for the Best of the Web awards open in February each year.
- Exhibit your commercial products and services in the Exhibit Hall.
- Give an Exhibitor Briefings on recent projects and new commercial products.
- Propose a tour in your community. Submit the tour proposal for the pre-conference tour day (Tuesday) of the conference week.
- Join the Local Committee and help showcase the Los Angeles cultural scenes!
- Be there: the best part of MW is always meeting informally with some of the most creative and innovative museum professionals from around the world and enjoying the warmth and generosity of this community. Join us!
Performances? Hack-a-thons? Maker Faires? Other interactions or services?
Propose any other format of participation + explain how it works. We’re open to new ideas.
Many thanks for your help! We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!
Rich & Nancy
Rich Cherry & Nancy Proctor Co-chairs,
Museums and the Web 2016
Just-in-time Registration for MWA2105 Ends September 21st
MWA2015 will be held in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre October 5-8.
Just-in-time Registration (payment before September 21, 2015) AUS$650
- Early (payment before August 1, 2015) AUS$550
- Regular (payment before September 1, 2015) AUS$600
- Just-in-time (payment before September 21, 2015) AUS$650
- Last-minute (payment after September 20, 2015, or at the conference) AUS$750
- Full Time Student (with valid student ID, payment before October 1, 2015) AUS$300
- Pre-conference Workshop Monday, October 5, 2015 (Includes Lunch) AUS$175
- For discounts, refunds and other info click here.
Sessions and workshops will be held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hobart Deep Dive October 3rd and 4th: Join conference delegates on this pre-conference tour (additional costs apply) of Hobart’s prime cultural attractions:
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/ ) and
- MONA (http://www.mona.net.au/ ).
There are additional pre-conference workshops (additional costs apply) and free walking tours of local cultural organisations on Monday, October 05, 2015.
Please review the key dates as the schedule is different to last year’s.
We’ll be adding more information to the website over time, and welcome any suggestions or questions you have that might help us improve the information online as we build it out.
Many thanks for your help! We look forward to seeing you in Australia!
Rich, Nancy, Tim and Ely
Rich Cherry
Nancy Proctor
Tim Hart
Ely Wallis
Co-chairs,
Museums and the Web Asia 2015
MWA2015 Draft Program Online – Early Registration Open
We are delighted to announce that we have launched the Museums and the Web Asia 2015 (MWA2015) Draft program and opened early registration for our 4th Museums and the Web Asia conference.
MWA2015 will be held in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre October 5-8.
Multicultural, with great food, theatre, arts and sport, Melbourne is the southernmost city of mainland Australia. A creative and exciting city Melbourne has a cultural depth and multicultural diversity people expect from a major global city, but with a relaxed attitude that makes it easy for visitors from anywhere around the world to feel at home. MW delegates will have no trouble filling their downtime when in town for a conference or business event and for those who want to explore further afield, the unique natural beauty of regional Victoria is just a short trip away.
Register early to save money:
- Early (payment before August 1, 2015) AUS$550
- Regular (payment before September 1, 2015) AUS$600
- Just-in-time (payment before September 21, 2015) AUS$650
- Last-minute (payment after September 20, 2015, or at the conference) AUS$750
- Full Time Student (with valid student ID, payment before October 1, 2015) AUS$300
- Pre-conference Workshop Monday, October 5, 2015 (Includes Lunch) AUS$175
- For discounts, refunds and other info click here.
Sessions and workshops will be held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hobart Deep Dive October 3rd and 4th: Join conference delegates on this pre-conference tour (additional costs apply) of Hobart’s prime cultural attractions:
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/ ) and
- MONA (http://www.mona.net.au/ ).
There are additional pre-conference workshops (additional costs apply) and free walking tours of local cultural organisations on Monday, October 05, 2015.
Please review the key dates as the schedule is different to last year's.
We'll be adding more information to the website over time, and welcome any suggestions or questions you have that might help us improve the information online as we build it out.
Many thanks for your help! We look forward to seeing you in Australia!
Rich, Nancy, Tim and Ely
Rich Cherry
Nancy Proctor
Tim Hart
Ely Wallis
Co-chairs,
Museums and the Web Asia 2015