Category Metadata

On documents and dinosaurs

As many of you will know I am interested in museum archives – how they are managed, stored, and documented in their own right, and how they are connected to other items and collections. I’m also interested in archives and… Continue Reading →

April 25, 2016 3

Discovering Los Angeles

I’ve got a soft spot for old-fashioned American hotels, with their bright red Exit signs and faded décor. I’m writing this from one, the Milner on South Flower Street, Los Angeles, where I’m staying for a week while attending the… Continue Reading →

April 8, 2016 2

Artefacts and Archives @ #MWA2015

This week I presented at Museums and the Web Asia 2015. Abstract Archival material often provides the context required by curators, researchers and other users working with material objects, contributing to new narratives and richer understanding. Artefacts and archives are… Continue Reading →

October 8, 2015 1

Citation needed

“I know, for I told me so” – Spinal Tap, ‘The Majesty of Rock’ As part of some recent research I had reason to visit the British Museum’s website, including the pages they provide about the history of their collection and… Continue Reading →

August 12, 2015 0

On museum metadata

As it’s Museum Week, I’m going to take this opportunity to share some photos I took on a recent trip to the Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia. My interest in documentation and metadata means that, apart… Continue Reading →

March 25, 2015 0

No Exit

Since starting my PhD the number of digital tools I use has increased. The current list includes Microsoft Office products, Zotero, Evernote and Trello, and I have talked to people about Mendeley, Scrivener and more. As an archivist, and someone… Continue Reading →

March 17, 2015 0

Collections

Collections are filled with layers of meaning. I am sure many of you will know the wonderful scene in High Fidelity where Rob Gordon is sorting his record collection. Though I don’t think I could sort my CD collection end… Continue Reading →

February 4, 2015 0

Wrangling PDFs

It’s more than ten years since I did my Masters, and a lot has changed. One of the big differences is the number of PDFs I have to deal with. In 2002 it was virtually zero. Now, a little over a… Continue Reading →

January 30, 2015 4

Rotters

Yesterday I was reading an article in The New Yorker which contained a statistic that shocked me. But first, a tangent. Citing things on the web is a challenge. The New Yorker article I want to refer to here is… Continue Reading →

January 21, 2015 4

Generous interfaces, stingy metadata

I have been aware of Mitchell Whitelaw’s great work on generous interfaces for a while now, so was interested when a colleague recently sent through a link to Mitchell’s 2011 National Digital Forum presentation Generous Interfaces. The particular example my… Continue Reading →

December 4, 2012 0
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