In January, our Chair, Mia Ridge, was to invited to Nesta’s Digital Culture Panel event to respond to their 2015 Digital Culture survey on ‘How arts and cultural organisations in England use technology’ (produced with Arts Council England (ACE) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)). Her response was informed by years of discussions […]
The MCG’s Rosie Clarke wrote this ahead of our Spring 2016 event. Making digital projects sustainable: a challenge for everyone! This recent article by Martha Henson – Stop wasting money on digital projects if you aren’t prepared to promote them properly – attracted a lot of support from the cultural heritage sector and beyond. We’ve all been […]
By Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja I made the decision to attend the MCG spring event based on my personal and professional curiosity about sustainability in digital projects, more specifically in relation to the subject of my PhD thesis: online exhibitions and publications. In the last months I also started to hear more frequently about sustainability in museums […]
On 6 May 2016, over 50 museum technology professionals gathered to discuss ‘Life with digital projects‘. We heard from consultants, senior museum and agency staff, academics, developers and producers over a day that began in style with Charlotte Sexton’s keynote and ended with a debate on ‘outsourcing digital heritage projects is more harm than help’. […]
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UKMW16 will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 19 October 2016. Tickets will go on sale over summer. In the meantime, you can find out what people loved about our past conferences and sign up for our events newsletter. MCG’s UKMW16 theme: Sharing our stories Museums have a range of interesting […]
The Museum Computer Group is pleased to offer a small number of bursaries to enable a broad range of people to attend our Spring workshop 2016 – ‘Life Support: living with digital projects’ in the Hospititum, York on 6th May. The bursary provides free entry to the event and an additional £100 to cover […]
The Museums Computer Group are excited to open our Call for Proposals for our 2016 Spring workshop which will be held at the Hospitium in York on May 6, 2016. Continuing the MCG’s long-standing interest in how museums respond to the changes that digital technologies bring, our 2016 theme is: ‘Life Support: living with digital projects‘. […]
The extended MCG community loves to chat! Here’s a month-by-month selection of the most popular topics on the Museums Computer Group’s museum technology discussion list in 2015. It’s based on an unscientific review of post counts and subject lines, but it looks like people in 2015 had opinions on: image metadata, 3D printing, cultural heritage […]
A post on the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography’s site presents the text of the 2015 AHFAP Conference Keynote by James Stevenson. In looking back at the history of museum photography, he also touches on the history of related practitioner groups: ‘It is interesting to see when other associations in museums were founded: […]