Changing Cultures – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-03-22 10:30:00 in United Kingdom
A one-day seminar looking at the impact that new digital learning opportunities and developments are having on museums and galleries. The day will also join forces with the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network in the afternoon to discuss and explore innovative digital research methods, and how to plan for and understand impact from digital projects. Event Programme 10:30 Registration and tea/coffee (Auditorium, Level 1 Learning Centre) 10:45 Welcome to the day/housekeeping Chair of morning session: Kelly Forbes, Digital Engagement and Communications Manager at Museums Galleries Scotland 10:50 From GLOW to MOOCs: Digital learning at National Museums Scotland Stephen Allen, Head of Learning & Programmes, NMS 11:15 Making museums open-ready: What one wikimedian learned in one year Sara Thomas, Wikimedian-in-Residence, Museums Galleries Scotland Sara Thomas will explore the idea that open knowledge is a natural and valuable extension of outreach, which can massively increase a cultural organisation’s reach and influence, if and when fears around letting go can be addressed. 11:40 A Digital Innovation Journey: Timespan and the University of St Andrews Jacquie Aitken, Archive Officer, Timespan Museum & Arts Centre, Helmsdale Case studies exploring how digital technology can be used to fill the ‘visual immersive experience’ gap between the past and the present, how it can take you to places you never thought you’d ever see, how it can be used to communicate universally around the globe, how it is reusable and easy to acquire the necessary skills and how it has become part of the tool kit for museum and archaeology recording, documentation and presentation. 12:05 Digital strategy at The Hunterian. Re-interpreting an Enlightenment collection Maria Economou, Curator and Lecturer in Museum Studies, School of Humanities & Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow Maria Economou will outline the digital strategy of The Hunterian, Scotland’s oldest public museum, and contextualise the factors influencing the shaping of the strategy as well as the use of digital in the organisation as a whole. She will also discuss how the digital strategy supports learning using the case study of the digital trail designed for The Hunterian’s Kangaroo & the Moose exhibition on George Stubb’s paintings, as part of the Travellers’ Tails collaborative project co-ordinated by the Royal Maritime Museums Greenwich. 12:30 Engaging with collections and communities through www.johngraycentre.org Kate Maynard, Team Manager, Museums, East Lothian Council The John Gray Centre is a heritage hub in East Lothian’s county town of Haddington. It is home to a Library, Museum, Archive and Local History Centre and has an innovative website. Engagement with users is slowly growing and managing the site has seen a change in the way the services operate and work together and has improved digital literacy amongst staff. 12:45 Questions/discussion 13:00 Lunch 13:45 Welcome by Jen Ross, Lecturer, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh The afternoon will bring together the Digital Learning Network and the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network to explore methods for conducting digital cultural heritage research, and ways academics and cultural heritage professionals can think about the impact of our work.. 13:50 Lightning strikes talks 14:20 Keynote: Building impact into digital cultural heritage: lessons from projects from UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Melissa Terras, Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities In this talk, three projects from UCL Centre for Digital Humanities will be featured: Transcribe Bentham uses crowd sourcing to aid in the transcription of historical manuscripts. QRator allows visitors to museums to engage with curators, and debates on museum collections, display, and ethics. The Panopticam is a fun way of engaging the audience with a problematic and totemic institutional museum piece: the embalmed body of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. These three different approaches demonstrate a shift away from the static online edition, to a participatory environment. What ramifications does this have for research, and for those building digital projects within the cultural and heritage sectors? 15:05 Refreshments 15:25 Group activities 16:15 Plenary discussion: picking up on key themes of the day 16:35 Closing remarks 16:45 Close The cost for the whole day will be £70, including refreshments and lunch.
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