Anne, Director of Legal Affairs & Intellectual Property at Newfields and editor of the book "Rights and Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions", Aleksandra Strzelichowska, Collections Engagement Team, Senior Online Marketing Spec

Mar 30th, 2020 54m 11s

SPEAKERS:Ariadna Matas, Copyright Policy Advisor, Europeana FoundationSarah Pearson, Legal Counsel, Creative CommonsAndrea Wallace, Lecturer in Law, Exeter UniversityOrganized by the Special Interest Group on Intellectual Property, Museum C

DEEP DIVE: How to have the most productive outcomes when hiring content creators. Let's share our stories.

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 7m

Thursday, November 7, 2019Now more than ever, museums hire storytellers of all types to create content that is central to museum experiences and museum identity. It can be in all kinds of media, including text, audio, video, interactives, and

Prototypes: Learning Through Making

Nov 19th, 2019 30m 53s

Thursday, November 7, 2019In 2018, Knight Foundation funded a dozen project through their Prototype Fund to test new approaches to technology in cultural institutions. This session will gather insights from these projects, speak to the prototy

Approaches to Managing Emerging Technologies in Museums

Nov 19th, 2019 30m 26s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Microsoft is proud to support the Museum community, and sponsor this plenary panel about emerging technologies today and in the future. We'll cover a number of key themes including 1) technology has always been emer

Open Access Today: Rethinking Open Access

Nov 19th, 2019 50m 30s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019The open access movement has empowered museums to connect with their audiences by providing unprecedented access to digital collections. Now that a number of museums have had an open access policy for the better part

DEEP DIVE: The ethics of #musesocial: How social media helps and harms our communities and what to do about it

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 56m

Thursday, November 7, 2019Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube provide an invaluable conduit to enormous global audiences, but the last few years have revealed an unseemly dark side to these platforms. What are the risks for ins

MCN 2019 Scholars (Session 2)

Nov 19th, 2019 27m 44s

Thursday, November 7, 2019Meet the MCN 2019 Scholars! Each year MCN awards scholarships to 15 emerging leaders in the field of museum technology—and this is your chance to hear from them. In each session, 5 scholars deliver a series of lightni

Recentering the User: A Study of Digital Publications from Four Museums

Nov 19th, 2019 59m 24s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019In museums today, we employ user-centered design practices while developing projects to define our audiences and align with their needs. All too often, though, we lack the time and resources to do the equally valuabl

The Musetech Charter and You!

Nov 19th, 2019 54m 30s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019This presentation will be an unveiling of the first phase of the Musetech Charter, an online resource designed to provide museums of any scale or scope with methodologies for implementing technologies in strategic an

Through the Lens of Warhol: Museum and Library Multi-Platform Partnership at Stanford University

Nov 19th, 2019 28m 54s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019From 1976 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol was never without his camera. He snapped photos at discos, dinner parties, flea markets, and wrestling matches. Friends, celebrities, passers by: all captured Warhol's a

Heroes to Pixar: Strategies for Creating Stories Using Your Collections

Nov 19th, 2019 34m 57s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019Everyone loves a good story. There is something about a good story that draws people in. It communicates something we can relate to, or teaches us something we carry along. Perhaps that is why one of the strongest to

Facing Reality: Taking a Visitor-Centered Approach to Augmented Reality

Nov 19th, 2019 59m 6s

SpeakersSession Leader : A. Andrea Montiel De Shuman, Digital Experience Designer, Detroit Institute of ArtsCo-Presenter : Alicia Viera, Interpretive Planning and Visitor-Centered Exhibitions Consultant, Independent Museum ProfessionalCo-Pre

Increasing the Representation of Diverse Populations Online with Digital Collections

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 3m

Wednesday, November 6, 2019Cultural heritage collections can reflect societal biases and sometimes leave out important stories. As studies show visitors invest significant trust in the information cultural organizations provide, it is critical

Push/Pull/Partner: Content Strategies for Community Engagement

Nov 19th, 2019 34m 9s

Friday, November 8, 2019How can museums utilize technology to co-create content with the public in ways that feel equitable and rewarding to all parties? Through our digital interpretive practice, Mia has come to view its work in relation to t

How Human-Centered Design Fails Museums

Nov 19th, 2019 34m 25s

Friday, November 8, 2019Human-centered design, service design, and design thinking represent the current zeitgeist, deeply embedded in how we think of our practice. Potentially a reductionist, jargonistic approach, these terms are at times use

Don't Burn Out!: Effectively Using Existing Platforms for In-Gallery Experiences

Nov 19th, 2019 52m 56s

Thursday, November 7, 2019An Adler Planetarium Survey of Visitors and Supporters conducted in 2018 by Cygnus Applied Research Inc., showed that 32.8% of guests responded they came to the Adler to learn about our artifacts. 62% reported attendi

We Are Nature, Storytelling in VR: How A Physical Exhibition Became a Virtual Experience

Nov 19th, 2019 29m 46s

Friday, November 8, 2019The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh was interested in creating a virtual experience of We Are Nature: Living in the Anthropocene, an exhibition that looks at how human behavior is impacting the Earth an

Versions 1-26. A modular approach to building multiple websites.

Nov 19th, 2019 40m 19s

Thursday, November 7, 2019In late 2016 the Minnesota Historical Society set out to update websites for the twenty six historical locations it manages.The project introduced necessary, and difficult questions about what the relationship should

Acing the Interview

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 26m

Thursday, November 7, 2019As rapidly as technologies change, so does the employment landscape for digital professionals. Hiring managers are increasingly challenged to find not just the right talent to fit organizational needs, but also to hir

How to Avoid, Handle, and Recover from Burnout in Digital Communications

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 13m

Thursday, November 7, 2019In a digital ecosystem of 24/7 communication we are fielding alerts, following relevant news, and responding to never-ending social media comments, messages, requests and more. But with the ever-growing list of respon

Multi-Sensory Design Towards Inclusion and Access

Nov 19th, 2019 29m 46s

Wednesday, November 6, 2019Many multi-sensory exhibitions aim to create immersive experiences, yet remain inaccessible for a variety of visitors. This session will examine multi-sensory exhibition design and how engaging various senses can pro

International Copyright Law: Implications for Digital Collections and Collaborations

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 12m

Thursday, November 7, 2019Regardless of our institutions’ physical locations, our online collections are accessible worldwide. As museums embrace open access, the call to make digital surrogates of public domain assets freely available, and th

Advocating For Your Museum: How It Works, Why It Matters

Nov 19th, 2019 58m 4s

Thursday, November 7, 2019Museums and other cultural organizations face ongoing pressure in the public arena. Private funding sources may carry restrictions, and public sources of financial support face repeated threats to their very existence

Upward Mobility? Challenges in preserving app-based artworks

Nov 19th, 2019 27m 59s

Thursday, November 7, 2019The complexity of software-based art continues to challenge media conservators in their quest for best preservation practices. An ever growing body of literature on case studies has been written and published underlin