Dear Kate: I was just asked a similar question by the Director here, and I pulled up a list which I'm copying below.
Of particular interest to you would be the Tech Museum's collaborative exhibit-building program (Nina Simon's baby!) and The Brooklyn Museum's Click exhibition. ****** A very brief list of museums using Web 2.0 successfully, but here are a few immediately at hand: http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=114 <- not an institution, but a link to some doing wonderful things http://thetechvirtual.org/ <- The Tech Museum has collaborative exhibition development. Modeled in Second Life, then they make them full-scale for the museum http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Home_page National Archives of British History's wiki page for collaborative archive information. There's more about it in the top link above http://photography.si.edu/ and the Library of Congress's additions to the Flickr Commons. Very effective for soliciting historical commentary, information, and miscellaneous commentary. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/ <- ok, they're huge and well-funded, but I think we could model IDEA on what they've done with their database http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/search/label/Museums%20Engaging%20in%202.0 %20Projects <- big list and reviews of museums engaging in Web 2.0. >From Nina Simon's Museum 2.0 blog (Nina was responsible for the Tech's new direction of Web 2.0 collaboration) http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-click-is-my-hero-what-museum.h tml <- Nina's review of Click I feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg. Digging through the Museums and the Web papers will yield a ton more information and case studies. http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html Hope this is of use. Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kate Spencer Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:34 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Public Authoring examples Hi All. I am doing a Research Masters and am looking at the use of Public Authoring & user-generated content in museum exhibits. I am particularly interested in examples where user-generated content is integrated into the exhibit and exhibits which allow the audience to add to, comment on and re-interpret the exhibit content so the exhibits evolve over time. Can anyone point to any successful/interesting examples? Cheers Kate _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
