SXSW Interactive 2009 Panel Picker - Remixing the Museum Exhibition

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Title:

Remixing the Museum Exhibition

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Level:

Intermediate

Type:

Dual

Category:

Content

Organizer:

Ellis Neder, Sway Design

Panelists:

Steven Alvarez (Alaska Native Heritage Center), Jim Forrest (Peabody Essex Museum), Ellis Neder, moderator (Sway Design), Ben Tucker (GreenRiver.org)

Description:

What happens when six regional museums join forces, build a web site and allow us to remix their authoritative collections with public resources drawn from Flickr and YouTube? How does a museum manage data that comes from third-party APIs? Is this a shift forward in the evolution of online exhibitions?

THE ECHO PROJECT
"Remixing the Museum Exhibition" will focus on an online project that launches this Fall called ECHO. ECHO is a partnership of six regional cultural institutions that specialize in culture-based education for Native and non-Native communities in Alaska, Hawai’i, Massachusetts and Mississippi.

The new ECHO site is one part online encyclopedia, one part digital uploading service and one part online storytelling tool. Using ECHO, you can browse and collect photos and videos of heritage items you would typically see at any of the museums that make up the ECHO partnership. We’ve linked ECHO to YouTube and Flickr so you can easily upload your own photos and videos to the site to make personalized “Learning Centers” that share your unique point of view with fellow museum-goers, students and friends and family.

THE PRESENTATION
During this presentation we'll talk about the benefits of opening up online museum collections to accept resources from the general public and we’ll outline the approval process we created that helps ECHO’s staff manage new users and track contributions to the site. We’ll also review what’s been successful with the current version of the site and consider what needs to be improved as ECHO’s online community continues to grow.

ABOUT ECHO PARTNERS
ECHO partners are: Alaska Native Heritage Center and Inupiat Heritage Center in Alaska; Bishop Museum in Hawai‘i; the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi; and New Bedford Echo Project and Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.

Now here's a panel that really stands a chance to redefine a venerated institution: the museum.

This sounds great. As an intellectual property attorney involved in technology and new media, I'm interested in this project and panel. It will be interesting to me to see how IP rights are addressed and managed by the Echo staff. Cutting edge stuff.

Seems relevant and timely, and a very do-able project that is enabling these museums to try alternative open/participatory methods utilizing new media tools and partnerships and, thus, enhance their collections and enable largely untapped knowledge gathering/sharing.

As an educator, this project could be a huge asset to educational institutions everywhere! You got my vote!

As a layman but avid museum lover, this would open a new media avenue to enhance cultural experiences and encourage public participation.

This clearly has a lot of relevance for the future on online exhibits, and networked capabilities. I'm totally intrigued.

One potential funding institution which might be interested in supporting these efforts: The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation - http://www.knightfoundation.org/

Cheers!

Great job, friends. Good panel.

This will be interesting, but more importantly how intellectual property will be handled in this type of exhibition. This really does push the envelope and will be interesting to see how the panel explain.

Intellectual property is "hot property" at the moment so understanding the overlaps in this current ambiguous market will be greatly received.

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