‘Go Collaborate’ MCG Spring Meeting in partnership with Culture24 – Brighton – 17th June Friday 17th June 2011 10am to 5pm (arrival from 9.30am) Lighthouse 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ Now – perhaps more than ever – is a moment for the museum sector to look outwards and see the opportunities for collaboration. At a time when the sector’s governance is... 

The Museums Computer Group ‘UK Museums on the Web’ Conference 2010 hosted by the Museum of London Including a joint evening session with Wikimedia UK hosted at the British Museum The hashtag for this event was #ukmw10. Themes of the day: The UK cultural heritage sector is entering a turbulent period. The policy landscape is being reshaped, funding streams renegotiated and portfolios of... 

On a recent balmy July evening, a number of people gathered in a pub in London to discuss ‘linking museums’.  Described as ‘a meetup for people interested in the applications of linked data, microformats, RDFa (etc) for museums and the cultural heritage sector’, it was organised and publicised largely over twitter and on the ‘museums and machine-processable data’... 

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MCG Spring Meeting, 19 May 2009, Roman Baths and Pump Room, Bath Taking the cultural heritage of the city of Bath as its centre point, our spring meeting will this year explore the challenges of using digital media within iconic historic sites and subjects. Led by the city’s heritage team, but with contributions from the National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the...