Workshop 2'Museum in a day – building a museum website in 12 hours' Eduserv, United Kingdom Box UK and Eduserve, United Kingdom Museums have traditionally negotiated in an arena in which perfection is sought, large-scale collaboration is the holy grail and big budgets and long timescales are part of the landscape. Nowadays, it is becoming clear that Web2.0 tools are providing an opportunity to develop socially-focused collaborative systems extremely rapidly and with little or no financial cost. During October and November 2009, Mike Ellis (Eduserv) and Dan Zambonini (Box UK) are aiming to build a complete museum website in 12 hours from beginning to end, under the title "Museum In A Day". During that time we'll be documenting everything that we do publically via , noting down all the time and money that we spend in developing a museum website using tools that are readily available online. This workshop will give an overview of our project (we don't know yet if we'll succeed or fail! and compare what we learnt with more traditional approaches. We'll ask which tools and techniques are the right ones for gaining true audience engagement and "bang for buck" in cultural heritage institutions. We'll also try to tease out the opportunities whilst also highlighting some of the questions and risks associated with some of these new approaches. This will be a practical workshop with audience interaction and live demonstrations --------------------------------------- |
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Mike Ellis is a Solutions Architect at a Bath-based company called Eduserv; a non profit IT services group. Before working for Eduserv, Mike Ellis was Head of Web for the National Museum of Science and Industry, UK, which comprises the Science Museum in London, Media Museum in Bradford and Railway Museum in York.
