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IMA blogs in-gallery interactive

IMA heatmap -- see the full thing
The Indianapolis Museum of Art software development team has blogged some stats about an interactive installed in their Asian galleries, including some details about how and where it's touched. intriguing how, as Charlie Moad says, the heat map shows that people wanted to use the interface in the inverse way from how it was designed: they wanted to use the geographical map to find the work, not plot the work on the map.

our paradigms are shifting: "it’s google maps fault"

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Holography in the Modern Museum conference and workshops

Apologies for cross posting…..
SCIENTISTS SHOW MUSEUMS HOW HOLOGRAMS CAN SAVE ARTEFACTS

Innovations in 3D imaging technology mean priceless artefacts can now be safely conserved while the public see exact replicas, identical in colour, size and every intricate detail, according to holography experts.

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Call for Participation: Museums and the Web 2009

Proposals are now being accepted for Museums and the Web 2009.

If you have work you would like to share, please review the Call for Participation, and submit your proposal using the on-line form.

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Special Issue of Museum Management and Curatorship of ICHIM07 papers

Recently we've been helping editors Ross Parry and Paul Marty put together a special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship containing articles from ICHIM07. Our introduction (http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/MMC-ichim07-intro.html) to the issue, which will contain five articles focused on organizations and changes created by multimedia online, looks back at 16 years of ICHIM history, locating today's discussions in some of the earliest themes from the past.

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LinkedIn Group for MW

For people who are on LinkedIn who want to wear their Museums and the Web affiliation on their sleeve (or profile), we've created a LinkedIn group for Museums and the Web at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/725107

Feel free to join, and to share the URL with others.

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