museblog

muse blog

gleaned from museum blogs and related links

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/ [selected LABELS follow]

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Asia

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digitization

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Europe

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Exhibition%20News

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Exhibition%20Reviews

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Informatics

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/International

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Museum%20Websites

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Open%20Access

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Organizations

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Exhibition%20Reviews

http://jasonbairdjackson.googlepages.com/digitalexhibitions

(Jason Baird Jackson)

http://www.cooneycreative.com/kimberlychristen/ [museum anthropology and its larger social contexts]

http://unparallel.com/cma/ [cma website]

http://museumanthropology.net/

http://www.museumblogs.org/ [meta-blog]

Virtual Museum of Canada, http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/index_noflash.html

To view the exhibit, please visit http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Danewajich

Dane-zaa Moose Hunt Digital Exhibition Reviewed, 3/2007

A fine review, by Patrick Moore, of the Dene-zaa Moose Hunt,http://www.moosehunt.doigriverfn.com/: Hadaa ka naadzet digital

exhibition is now available on Museum Anthropology Review,

http://museumanthropology.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/mar200717/

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. JFRR is a free service in which reviews of books and other media are sent by email to a list of

subscribers. One need not be a subscriber to JFR (the journal) to be a recipient of (or contributor to) JFRR emailings. All that is needed

is to submit one's email address to the editors. In addition to emailing out reviews of materials of interest to folklorists,

ethnomusicologists, anthropologists and others, these reviews are made available online via a searchable database,

http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/reviewsearch.php

Library and Archives Canada, in partnership with the Gilcrease Museum and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for

Studies in Canadian Art, has built an online edition of the Codex. The site is both an online exhibition interpreting the document

and a digital edition providing access to the entire work - http://www.collectionscanada.ca/codex/index-e.html

SearchMonkey Video gives you an overview of how to build

enhanced search results for Yahoo! Search, http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/

Semantic Web [meta data; Dublin protocol], http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ

What is the Semantic Web? | How does the Semantic Web relate to… | How do I participate in the Semantic Web? | Questions on RDF, Ontologies, SPARQL, Rules…

Forerunners

Within the Smithsonian, the American Art Museum has been most creative engaging younger audiences with online art pieces, http://americanart.si.edu/education/insights/

At Natural History, we recently completed a webcomic that mixes archaeology, history, and forensic anthropology, and fiction and nonfiction. Collection pieces are represented in the associated activities and as popups supporting panels, http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/

...the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia, Mexico City, has gone high tech with the digital representation of their collections, http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/

The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian has developed a few engaging online activities for children using items from the collections, http://www.museu.gulbenkian.pt/serv_edu/jogos/jogo_diferencas.asp

The Louvre ...the use of technology to break down art objects into visual components that guide users in seeing objects.