Cultural Digital newsletter #161
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week we've got more of a mixed bag than last time. Although I'm in a bit of a hurry, so you'll have to excuse me not lumping things into a few categories and including something photogenic.
Single digital presence, recommendations paper. "The British Library undertook a year-long enquiry to examine a range of options for such a platform and has identified five potential models that could enable public libraries to benefit fully from recent technological developments and to engage new and existing users at local and national level".
Museums in the digital space — some reflections on online exhibitions. What do you think about the term “digital exhibition” or “online exhibition”? asked Kajsa Hartig. Here's a summary of the replies.
Facilitation vs. Intervention: The Secret To Successful Onsite Technology in Cultural Organizations. From Colleen Dilenschneider. "There are few onsite technological initiatives we would broadly recommend for cultural organizations aside from offering easily accessible Wi-Fi".
'Quite an adventure': some lessons from digital arts projects with older people - The Baring Foundation. "How the use of digital technology in five arts projects impacted on older people, creative engagement, business models, partnerships, and attitudes towards ageing".
Phoenix Digital Blueprint: A Consultation Review is by Dr Sophie Frost and it was written for Leicester's cinema and digital art gallery. There are some specifics for Phoenix, but I thought the general overview of the role of digital in UK arts policy and practice was just as interesting.
Hosting an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon: what we learnt and why we’d do it all over again. From Alice Read at the Paul Mellon Centre.
Science for the Win. A peek into how the Science Museum does email.
LPO Plus is a new online reward scheme from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Digital Roles advertised in the UK Cultural Sector. From Oliver Vicars-Harris "This growing inventory of digital roles advertised in the UK cultural sector is designed to help with benchmarking salaries and drawing up job descriptions".
At which point I should reference this: Museum Workers Share Their Salaries and Urge Industry-Wide Reform. I hadn't realised that this was partly inspired by Kimberly Drew’s keynote address from the 2019 American Alliance of Museums conference (she previously did social media at the Met Museum).
Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million. "The work of art is meant to give physical form to abstract digital threats". I think I've got one of those somewhere.
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at Art UK, the House of Lords, National Theatre, Imperial War Museum, London Symphony Orchestra and others.
Thanks for reading, and for telling other people about this newsletter (you know who you are and you're wonderful). I'll be back with more later.
Chris Unitt