Cultural Digital newsletter #65 - genius
Cultural Digital
Hello
Remember the edges2cats thing from last week? Pete Ashton has been using similar technology on ASCII translations of images, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Parting gifts | Cooper Hewitt Labs Micah Walters is leaving and wraps things up with Zoomable Object Images and better access to a development environment.
The move to mobile ticketing. Shelley Bernstein at the Barnes Foundation talking about how their ticketing system migration "sits at the intersection of our visitor experience goals, our upcoming digital projects, and the need to lay a foundation strategically and with great flexibility".
Europeana Strategy 2020 update. Main pain points identified as:
It’s not easy or rewarding enough to share content with Europeana.
Our approach for end-users needs to be modernised.
There is a lack of clear division of roles and responsibilities in our ecosystem.
The good news and the bad news from the Met are all one tale | James Shulman This is a good read about how, despite ever higher expectations, museums can't be expected to do it all. "The experience of the Met in investing in digital content and services has shown the trade-offs involved; the museum community can learn by paying attention to both sides of the ledger".
Introducing Dawn Chorus "A museum-based alarm clock app investigating the concept of 'museum as utility'". I'd be really interested in seeing some evaluation of this further down the line.
Shakespeare's plays are on Genius and someone's added Samuel Johnson's notes as annotations. That's clever.
Using technology to address gender bias in film "software that accurately measures how often we see and hear women on-screen".
Youtube arts network reviews ‘unrealistic’ ambitions. Oh dear.
New websites
Domitor, Theater Zingaro.
CultureGeek (sponsor)
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Jobs
There's a digital-related job available at Royal Museums Greenwich.
Events
15 March, London: Transforming a Museum to be data-driven using R
15-17 March, Montreal: The Arts in a Digital World Summit
20 March 2017, London: Let's Get Real: Young Audiences Conference 2017
20 March 2017, London: Arts, Culture & Digital Teachmeet
That'll do for yet another week. Please forward this on to anyone who you think deserves it, and I'll be back with another helping next week.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
I work with lots of really good cultural organisations on projects involving digital analytics and user research. Visit One Further for more on that.