Workshop reports

Reports from the thinktank workshops - your ideas and comments are very welcome.

• Opening workshop - Leicester, July 2006
  • 1 Illustrating the Semantic Web
  • 2 Digital objects and terminology
  • 3 What does the Semantic web mean for museums?
  • 4 Funding Issues
  • 5 A beautiful Japanese package
  • 6 ‘It’s not an either, or’
  • 7 Evolution not revolution
  • 8 Tagging the Think Tank
  • 9 Semantic Web Think Tank - Leicester participants

• Workshop one - Glasgow, September 2006
  • 1 Seamus Ross and his view of the semantic web
  • 2 Demonstrators and outcomes
  • 3 What next? Concrete Steps
  • 4 Topic maps - a diagram for the way forward?
  • 5 Professional practice - working with semantics in the museum
  • 6 Don’t mention the ‘t’ word!
  • 7 Workshop two - Participants

• Workshop two - Brighton, November 2006
  • Brighton SWTT meeting agenda
  • Microformats - the Brighton SWTT discussion
  • Social Software and Museums - Discussion1
  • Social Software and Museums - Discussion2
  • Social Software In the Museum: Workshop with Jeremy Keith
  • Users - Who Are They?

• Workshop three - Newcastle, 19 December 2006 -agenda
  • 1 Learning Objects – Andy Sawyer
  • 2 Learning Objects – Martin Bazley
  • 3 Summary - Ross Parry
  • 4 Learning object metadata - Dan Zambonini
  • 5 Is the Semantic Web going to help Jane? - Ross Parry, Mike Lowndes

• Workshop four - 19 February 2007, London, Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Digital collections, museums and the semantic web - discussion
  • Frances Lloyd Baynes - the realities of museum collections in a web 2.0 world
  • Nick Poole of the MDA on knowledge management
  • Suzanne Keene - towards the semantic web in museums

Workshop 5, Cambridge

There was one more workshop in March 2007 in Cambridge, UK. report to follow. You can view the Interim Report (3Mb Powerpoint file) of the SWTT on the MCG website.