Författare: Aron Ambrosiani

  • Digitalt på Nordiska museet

    Digitalt på Nordiska museet

    Första året på Nordiska museet har passerat och snart är det dags för några månaders föräldraledighet. Tänkte bara lägga upp länkar till två digitala projekt jag varit inblandad i: den interaktiva kartan Tidskikaren och nyöppnade utställningen Med smak av humle – odla och brygg. Tidskikaren är en interaktiv karta över hur landskapet kring Julita gård förändrats i takt…

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  • Nordiska museet on Wikimedia Commons

    Nordiska museet on Wikimedia Commons

    New blog post over at the Nordiska museet Department of New Media blog (where I’ll be posting more regularly from now on): how are Nordiska museet’s images used on Wikipedia?

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  • #AskACurator: book recommendations

    #AskACurator: book recommendations

    Today’s date is September 17, and that means it’s #AskACurator day. I used the opportunity to ask for book recommendations on the history of museums. Here’s what I’ve gathered so far (links are to the National Library of Sweden aggregated catalogue): Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century /…

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  • Vad är en digital utställning?

    Vad är en digital utställning?

    Häromdagen efterlyste Kristoffer Soldal, projektledare på Nordiskt centrum för kulturarvspedagogik, exempel på bra digitala utställningar. Det ledde till en intressant diskussion, och jag ska försöka utvidga mitt resonemang något. Vad är en digital utställning, och vad är det egentligen som händer när museer försöker överföra sina utställningar från det fysiska rummet till en digital plattform?

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  • Open Source Museum Apps

    Open Source Museum Apps

    Museum apps are becoming more and more common around the world. Very few apps, however, are available as open source. Considering the public funding of most museums, it might be interesting to discuss whether our apps should be released to the public more often. I know of three museum app codebases released with an open…

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  • Technology Alone is Not Enough

    Technology Alone is Not Enough

    From the iPad keynote: “…technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing…” –Steve Jobs

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  • Iterative exhibitions, case study

    Iterative exhibitions, case study

    Regarding my last post, here’s a case study by Eric Socolofsky, New Media Exhibit Developer at the Exploratorium, of what I was actually aiming for: trying out your exhibits with a live audience. In other news, this blog was put on hold for a while by the arrival of my beautiful, charming and basically perfect daughter (now approaching…

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  • What Can Curators Learn From Coders?

    What Can Curators Learn From Coders?

    I think there is a fundamental difference between old-school exhibitions on one side and agile web development on the other. The exhibition process basically goes like this: 1) build, 2) launch while the typical agile web project is more like this: 1) launch, 2) build & repeat.

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  • Museums, internet, thoughts

    Museums, internet, thoughts

    Thanks to the Swedish Exhibition Agency, I was able to visit the conference Museums and the Web, held this April in San Diego. Four days of inspiring workshops, seminars and unconference sessions later, my brain was buzzing with feedback, theories and concrete ideas to test. I started out this last Friday with a talk for my colleagues…

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