[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Building communities of interest with museum collections, libraries and museums - Effie Kapsalis, Martin Kalfatovic and Darren Milligan 30/10 Smithsonian is mandated to serve the public who... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] THATcamp unconference session: Mobile technology and the school field trip: can it work? – Wendy Jones and Jennifer Sly 30/10 Minnesota History Centre, wanted to look at 21st century learners,... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Case study session 2 29/10 Engaging viewers through touchless interactive art – Collin Hover and Seiji Ikeda This piece of webart is a bunch of particles which, using a webcam you can... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] THATcamp unconference session-  Visualizing Museum Collections The wiki for this theme is Museumviz.pbworks.com and examples of visualisation can be found on Museumpipes.wordpress.com Visualisations... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Surveying the gap between the digital and physical visitors – John Gordy, Jessica Heimberg and Emily Skidmore 29/10 So popular that the session started with us relocating to a larger room National... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Conference roundup 29/10 This session consisted of 5min briefings from people who had attended other conferences over the year which were of interest to MCN delegates. MW2010 International participation... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Opensource 28/10 Omeka: open source for open museums? Sharon M. Leon Omeka is an open source publishing platform, it is a CMS (content management system).  Has flexible feeds so can export... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Case study session 1 28/10 – Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Vads.ac.uk – Leigh Garrett university of creative arts Look Here! project They are measuring impact of digitisation projects. JISC... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Engaging the audience session 28/10 Kate Goldman – decision points in creating virtual humans and avatars Uncanny valley, research from 1970s resulting in a graph showing cognitive issues... 

[In this series of posts, Gemma's been 'live blogging' from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas. The nature of live blogging means her notes are necessarily hurried, but she's posting so that MCGers who can't be at the conference can still follow along with the conference from the UK. You can also follow the conference on twitter with the hashtag #MCN2010.] Keynote...