electronic museum

about this blog

electronic museum – a bunch of thoughts on innovation, the web, and what we do with it.

This was once a complex (albeit very clever XML/XSLT) build and I had big aspirations for world domination. Then I got a bit distracted with some other stuff and when I came back here I realised I’d built a bit of a beast which simply couldn’t be managed. Lesson 1 – don’t get carried away with the tech. You would have thought I’d know that having done this stuff for 10 years or so. But no.

So this is #2. For starters, some blog posts. I’ve got some other thoughts but will keep ‘em to myself until they’re a bit better formed…

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  • Pilar Gonzalo // April 22, 2007 at 11:21 pm | Reply

    Hello Mike,

    This seems the birth of a wonderful blog :)
    Your lecture at mw2007 was fantastic!!! and also the previous paper. Thanks for your insights. I will keep hooked on “electronic museum”

    Take care,
    Pilar Gonzalo

  • Mike // April 23, 2007 at 9:48 am | Reply

    Thanks Pilar!

    Mike

  • Paul Swift // January 27, 2008 at 8:51 pm | Reply

    Hi Mike,
    I don’t think we ever met but I have been working at the NRM (York) since 2005 and before that I was a Software Producer for Granada Learning managing the development of a VLE (LearnWise) and an online testing engine called (TestWise). Anyway I just wanted to ask you if you have ever come across any blogs being used with the museum sector as a means for delivering primary source historical data – I have always thought that it would be possible to run a ‘retro-blog’ in which an existng diary or journal (in the case of the NRM perhaps a Station Masters diary) could be turned into a blog in the sense that each day/week/entry records word for word what had been written in the original source but is delivered through a blog package and allows online visitors to contribute as per traditional blog. I would be interested to know if you have heard of anything of this type before?
    Thanks
    Paul (Lifelong Learning Officer, NRM)

  • Mike // January 28, 2008 at 10:17 am | Reply

    Hey Paul

    Interesting idea – have just responded to you via email

    Cheers

    Mike

  • Frankie Roberto // January 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm | Reply

    See http://www.pepysdiary.com/ for an interesting approach to this.

    Of course, it works well because Pepys wrote as a diary, which fits the blog format well, but it could be applied to other original historical texts.

  • Paul Swift // January 30, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Reply

    Hi Frankie – thanks for this. It’s very interesting – I like the quite like the sound of
    ‘ The Blog of Samuel Pepys’!
    Paul

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