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MCG Spring 2016 event: Life with digital projects
How can we ensure digital projects are sustainable and have lasting impact?
Friday May 6 2016
This event took place at York’s historic Hospitium on 6 May 2016.
Programme
10.15-10.45 – Registration with tea and coffee
10.45-11.00 – Chair’s Welcome (Dr. Mia Ridge, Chair, MCG / Digital Curator, British Library) and Venue Welcome (Martin Fell, York Museums Trust)
11.00-11.45 – Keynote: Charlotte Sexton, ‘Life post-launch: how to tackle a digital hangover’
11.45-12.45 – Session 1: working in context
Chair: Jennifer Ross
Reverse engineering the updateatron! Mark Pajak, Head of Digital, Bristol Museums
Taking ownership of digital exhibitions Jennifer Townshend, Digital Content Editor, and Dan Q, Web & CMS Developer, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
The DiNAR project: Meaningful Mixed Reality for Heritage Gareth Beale, Researcher, Centre for Digital Heritage/Digital Creativity Labs, University of York
12.45-13.45 – Lunch (with optional museum visit)
13.45-14.45 – Session 2: working with others – part I
Chair: Jo Pugh
From Digital Beaver to Digital Diva Graham Davies, Digital Programmes Manager, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Sharing knowledge for digital sustainability Ivan Teage, Digital Development Manager, Natural History Museum
Adrift on a Silver Sea: Developing HLF funded digital projects with purpose Lucy Yates, Programme Manager, and Chris King, Digital Programmes Producer, National Maritime Museum
14.45-15.15 – Tea and coffee
15:15-16:00 – Session 3: working with others – part II
Chair: Jennifer Layton
Digal – just add ‘IT’ Anjanesh Babu, Systems Architect and Network Manager, Oxford University Museums
Don’t get a plumber they said. You’ll save lots of money they said. Andrew Larking, Creative Director, and Simon Wakeman, Managing Director, Deeson
16.00-16:45 – ‘outsourcing digital heritage projects is more harm than help’
Chair: Kath Biggs
With Nick Clarey, CEO, Atrium / Airsource, Simon Wakeman, Chris King and Mark Pajak
17.00 – #DrinkingAboutMuseums
Why attend
About our Spring 2016 workshop theme
Museums have invested in digital projects for exhibitions, events, audience interactions, collections management and more. Core budgets rarely stretch to major website rebuilds, developing new digital interactives, creating online collections portals or launching a digital picture library. But, fortunately, myriad funders, from government to trusts and foundations to philanthropists, are willing to provide project funding for museums to complete this necessary work. But what happens the day after a project launches? How do museums integrate project activity into their core business? How do individual projects impact on the museums and organisational practice as a whole? And a year after launch, what traces remain of the lessons learnt?
Thanks
Event management: Brian Moss, Katherine Biggs
Programme: Mia Ridge, Jessica Suess, Sarah Middle, Brian Moss
Marketing: Rosie Clarke, Sarah Middle
Bursaries: Brian Moss
Sponsorship: Ivan Teage