House of Alijn

At the expert meeting of the CVN - Commission Cultural Treaty Vlaanderen – Nederland – (www.cvn.be) last week in Antwerpen I participated in a breakout session lead by Sylvie Dhaene of ‘Het Huis van Alijn’ (House of Alijn; www.huisvanalijn.be). This former museum of folklore has set out to tell a timeless story about the culture of everyday life. In the museum ordinary objects and curiosities offer an introduction to the common inheritance of the time periods of the fifties, sixties, seventies and so on, up till now. Digital media is used to let you zap through photo albums, listen to sound recordings and plunge into film excerpts.

Tagged with: participation, vlaanderen, cultural heritage, pace,

Looking Back at the Museums and the Web 2009 Conference

I had the pleasure to attend the Museums and the Web conference 2009 in Indianapolis. It were four full packed days of keynote speakers, panels, demonstrations and workshops all on the topic Museums and the Internet. As mentioned in an earlier post I was allowed to demonstrate the application ‘I Know What This Is’ during the demonstration rounds on Saturday. The application is part of the PACE project.

Tagged with: cultural heritage, web 2.0, pace, social media,

Presenting Social Tagging and Digital Storytelling Project at Museums and the Web 2009

On Saturday the 18th of April I will present a social tagging and digital storytelling project called ikweetwatditis.nl at the Museums And The Web 2009 conference in Indianapolis. This project looks at the use of social tagging and digital storytelling for cultural artifacts. For this project a pilot application was created that allows users to tag these artifacts. In a sense one could compare this to Flickr the Commons but we try to invite groups ranging from experts, amateurs and people with no relation with these artifacts.

Tagged with: pace, cultural heritage,