cultural institutions

Creating value: between commerce and commons conference papers

Authors: 
Various
Publication date: 
26 June 2008

Full-text peer reviewed papers from the Creating Value conference, hosted by CCI, 25 - 27 June 2008, Brisbane.

Look who's talking

Publication date: 
1 June 2007

Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs.

Digital cultural communication: audience and remediation

Publication date: 
12 May 2007

This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.

Cultural institutions, co-creativity and communities of interest

Publication date: 
11 April 2007

Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.

How will social media affect museum communication?

Authors: 
Angelina Russo, Jerry Watkins, Lynda Kelly and Sebastian Chan
Publication date: 
1 February 2007

Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks.

New Literacies, New Audiences - 2007 conference papers

Publication date: 
1 January 2007

Watkins, J., (2007) ‘Social Media, Participatory Design and Cultural Engagement’. OzCHI Conference, Adelaide, November 2007.

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Participatory Design and Co-creativity in Cultural Institutions’. Museums Australia Conference, Canberra, May 2007. http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Cultural Institutions, Co-creativity and Communities of Interest’, in Schuler, D. (ed.), Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS 4564, pp. 212–221.

Enabling Technology for the Analysis of Electronic Cultural Archives - 2007 publications

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Publication date: 
1 January 2007

Pham B. and Smith, R., ‘Metadata Augmentation for Semantic- and Context-based Retrieval of Digital Cultural Objects’, DICTA 2007 – Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, 3-5 December 2007.

Smith, R., Pham, B. and Choudhury, S., ‘A Digital Artworks Expression Language (DAEL)’, 11th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2007.

Establishing and maintaining cultural e-communities

Publication date: 
28 April 2006

Issues of spatial distribution, allocation and access to resources prevail when establishing a long-term and viable e-community within the cultural sector.