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Mar 23, 2021 · Researchers can make museum collections more meaningful digitally based on their specific research questions. For example, Dr. Shannon Martino, a faculty member at Morton College, created a map based on ancient figurines and their find spot information in the Oriental Institute’s database.
Aug 18, 2023 · This study reviews 83 screened articles aligning with the guidelines of PRISMA systematic review to analyse existing knowledge about digitalisation and digitisation in museums, to demonstrate how these processes impact the role of museums, memory-making, and identify gaps for further research.
As a call to action, Clough charts the course that the Smithsonian will follow in the coming years in digitizing its artifacts, crowdsourcing its research and opening up its collections for...
- The Development of Tag Along with Adler
- Evaluating Tag Along with Adler
- A Case For Crowdsourcing
The Adler Planetarium’s Tag Along with Adler project is an ideal case study because of the varied nature of the Adler’s collection, which encompasses archival (100,000+ linear feet), library (6,000+ books), and object (3,000+ historic artifacts) holdings, and because the project uses Zooniverse, the world’s largest and most-used platform for citize...
The project was completed on March 12, 2022, approximately a year after it began. Tag Along with Adler used eleven subject sets of images, and as each subject set was retired, the team processed the data from both workflows (verification and textual), ultimately evaluating the results for all 1,090 images. In this section, I examine the ways in whi...
Crowdsourcing offers the opportunity for museums to leverage a novel methodology to build new relationships with their audiences, disrupting the usual relationship between the museum and the user by inviting the public to act as curators, experts, and researchers. In the process, it simultaneously enriches the user’s experience and the museum’s dat...
Nov 13, 2017 · Digitizing collections is one way in which their unequal distribution can potentially be mitigated, by making samples collected in biodiverse countries accessible to researchers and...
- Joshua A. Drew, Joshua A. Drew, Corrie S. Moreau, Melanie L. J. Stiassny
- 2017
Apr 26, 2022 · As a consolidated collection of meaningful triggers in museums, this research advances museum experience design in two ways: first, it provides new insights into the content of meaningful experiences that museums afford their visitors, and second, it presents design recommendations using the MyMuEx framework and related MyMuEx ideation cards to ...
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Oct 15, 2021 · Our research finds that digital engagement with museum content and practices around data in institutions have changed and that digital methods for organising and accessing collections for...
