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Digital Media at the V&A

Digital Media at the V&A

The development of digital media services at the V&A and the content they deliver for audiences.

Ideas from Museumnext 2013

Some brief reviews of sessions from this year's fantastic Museumnext. As ever it's not possible to attend them all (sadly), nor do them all justice, but here is a condensed run through...Keynote - Seb Chan talks about digital transformation at the Cooper-Hewitt museum New York Seb Chan kicked things off with a truly inspirational discussion of how he is working to change the mindest of an...
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How ready is 3D for delivering museum services?

Some reflections from people who are using 3D for real now in museums. They are from two great pre-conference workshops at Museums and the Web 2013 in Portland. As it stands right now there are a number of issues and service delivery challenges for managers looking to embed 3D features permanently into their museum services. Useable 3D technology exists in one form or another now, that can do...
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Guardian Changing Media Summit 2013 - Day 2

By Keith Hale, Content Editor, Digital Media Day 2 - 22 March 2013 'Its all about outstanding content', Darren Childs, CEO, UKTV Darren Childs opened the day highlighting how UKTV has become the fastest growing TV company in the UK: through innovation, changing company culture to attract the best talent, and investing in quality content. Audience viewing figures continue to rise as do on...
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Guardian Changing Media Summit 2013 - Day 1

By Cassie Williams, Senior Content Editor, Digital Media.At times it can be useful to step back from the world of museums and look at wider digital trends. With this in mind we visited the Guardian Changing Media Summit on 21 and 22 March 2013 which focused on ‘creative and commercial models for connected, converged content’ with a range of speakers which included press, marketing, TV...
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Bits to Blogs, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Newcastle, 19 March 2013

Report from Bits 2 Blogs, Newcastle, 19 March 2013, organised by Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums - the 'annual event for anyone working in the North East cultural heritage sector who is passionate about using new ideas and new technologies to engage new audiences' This was a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking day - an interesting mix of people speaking on topics ranging from...
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Culture Geek 2013

By Lizzy Bullock, Content Editor, Digital Media. On Friday 15 March 2013 I had the pleasure of attending Culture Geek at the Barbican, London. Below I have documented the day (apologies to anyone whose presentation I have had to summarise very briefly for space).09.20The day kicked off with the keynote speech from Pherabe Kolb, Associate Director of Strategic Communications, Smithsonian Institute...
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What do visitors say about using mobile devices in museums?

On 12 March 2013, it was our turn to host the latest Online Manager's Forum, an informal gathering of people working in London museums and other cultural organisations, which meets every 2-3 months or so, to pool knowledge and ideas on cultural digital services.Asking visitorsThe topic for this session was finding out what museum visitors really want from mobile devices and mobile digital...
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Digital content in the Hollywood Costume exhibition

On Thursday 17 January 2013, staff from the Digital Media team at The British Postal Museum & Archive visited the Hollywood Costume exhibition to look at how the exhibition digital content was delivered, to get inspiration for their service. They kindly agreed to write this guest post.Guest post by Alison Bean, Martin Devereux and Ian Tolley.The biggest challenge we face in building the new...
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Open Sourcing Digital Labels

At the end of November 2012, the V&A’s new Furniture Gallery opened up on our 6th floor. Alongside the great pieces on display, there are some novel approaches to interpretation and labelling.One such development was the replacement of printed labels with touch screen software, developed by the V&A Digital Media team. Today, we are releasing this software as open source on GitHub (...
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Museum Computer Network conference 2012

In November we were participating at the annual Museum Computer Network conference (MCN), this year held in Seattle. The MCN conference is a great learning experience. You don't so much attend as get immersed. Our Lead Developer Rich Barrett-Small was on the programme committee for this year's event. Rich also organised workshops (read more about these in a previous post)I also offered my...
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