News about projects of the Still Water lab at the University of Maine
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Curators hoping to augment their collections with interactive exhibits often forget that today’s visitors walk in the door with powerful digital interfaces already sitting in their pockets. For the 2020 Maine Archives and Museums conference on October 8th, Still Water Co-director Jon Ippolito offers a workshop that walks participants through the creation of a cross-platform smartphone app to connect visitors in person or over the Internet.
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Tags: 3D, Android, app, Augmented Reality, digital curation, education, iPad, iPhone, mobility, museum, New Media, presentation, software, Still Water, virtual reality
Buffing your digital credentials just got easier with UMaine’s impending approval of a fast track for its all-online Digital Curation certificate. The program will still deliver professional training in the complete workflow of collecting digital materials, from acquisition and representation to access and preservation. The new, streamlined curriculum option, however, enables students to complete the certificate in as short a time as nine months.
Tags: archive, collection, digital curation, education, library, museum, University of Maine
In 1994 artist Douglas Davis hit upon a surefire way to write a preposterously long sentence. He and his collaborators created a page on what was then a fledgling World Wide Web through which anyone could add words and phrases onto a growing string of HTML. Two decades later, it fell to digital conservator Ben Fino-Radin to restore this landmark of Internet art. He described the process–along with his work to recover the earliest Macintosh icons and manage digital collections at the Museum of Modern Art–in a teleconference this spring with students of the University of Maine’s Digital Curation program.
Tags: collection, digital curation, emulation, migration, museum, preservation, reinterpretation, variable media
Once dusty storehouses of antique patrimony, today museums are forced to re-imagine themselves for an age where culture is shared from smartphone to smartphone. Recent Still Water publications on reinventing museums for the 21st century are cropping up in anthologies like the International Handbook of Museum Studies and in interviews from The Library of Congress.
Tags: art, collection, digital curation, digital humanities, museum, New Media and Social Memory, press, publication, Re-collection, variable media
Good news for out-of-state and international students interested in the University of Maine’s online Digital Curation graduate program.
The University has extended its long-distance discount to students who enroll in the Certificate by this spring.
Tags: archive, class, digital curation, economics, education, library, museum, preservation, press, University of Maine, variable media
The University of Maine’s online program in digital curation has been growing quickly, with applications to the graduate certificate tripling over the past two years. It’s good timing, because US employer demand for digital curation professionals grew 60% from 2010 to 2013. That’s according to a report just out from the Education Advisory Board, which features the University of Maine as one of the only institutions in the world offering such a program.
Tags: archive, class, digital curation, digital humanities, economics, education, health, library, museum, students, study
The July discussion on the Yasmin email list focuses on MIT Press’s publication last month of Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito, which has been called the first academic book on new media preservation. Re-collection examines the challenge posed by new media to our long-term social memory, examining in depth such topics as amateur and professional emulation, crowdsourced preservation, and DNA storage.
Tags: archive, collection, digital curation, digital humanities, emulation, library, memory, migration, museum, New Media and Social Memory, preservation, publication, Re-collection, reinterpretation, storage, variable media
Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, the new book by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito published this week by MIT Press, has already received acclaim from some high-profile reviewers.
Tags: archive, collection, digital curation, digital humanities, emulation, library, memory, migration, museum, New Media and Social Memory, preservation, publication, Re-collection, reinterpretation, storage, variable media
A HASTAC scholarship, an interview published by the Smithsonian, and a cover story in ARTnews that mentions a landmark book by one of the professors. These are among the accolades received this fall by instructors teaching next term’s online courses in Metadata and Digital Preservation, for their contributions to the growing field of digital curation.
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Still Water Senior Researcher John Bell has been named a 2013 HASTAC scholar, and he’s spending his time finding new ways to knit together data and the organizations that produce them.
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Tags: archive, collection, digital curation, digital humanities, library, museum, network, preservation, sharing, software, The Pool