tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post8884773151205988538..comments2024-03-27T05:04:39.476-07:00Comments on Museum 2.0: What is a Wikimuseum? And More Thoughts on Metaphorical DesignNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-65779671855620998502009-02-17T13:26:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:26:00.000-08:00Rebekah,I apologize! I have changed the link, and...Rebekah,<BR/>I apologize! I have changed the link, and here it is--a <A HREF="http://www.avantgame.com/Anderson_McGonigal_NordCHI04.pdf" REL="nofollow">totally open PDF</A>, courtesy of Jane McGonigal.Nina Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-69986981755719661652009-02-17T13:16:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:16:00.000-08:00Nina- I am interested in the Place Storming articl...Nina- I am interested in the Place Storming article you have linked - but even a free membership/ login to ACM portal would not let me see the pdf- can you wave a magic wand and make it available? Many thanks, RebekahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-22279381826136920462009-02-17T07:27:00.000-08:002009-02-17T07:27:00.000-08:00Interesting post. Like you (and Lakoff) I have lon...Interesting post. Like you (and Lakoff) I have long been interested in the power of metaphors -- and the unintended consequences of selecting the "almost right" metaphor. (For example, using <I>wiki</I> to describe a kind of visitor-generated experience that is <I>not</I> subject to constant revision, collective oversight, and archiving, which is my sense of a wiki.)<BR/><BR/>This also raises the question of whether longstanding metaphors in the museum field -- "encyclopedic" museums or museums as "community" -- need to be subject to the same probing you give wikimuseums.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-77928540493520215932009-02-11T02:35:00.000-08:002009-02-11T02:35:00.000-08:00In my experience all development projects with an ...In my experience all development projects with an IT-component are 80% communication and 20% programming. By communication I mean talking, workshoping, specitifying to the point where customer (e.g. a museum) and developer have shed their pre-conceptions and truly reached a common and undertsood goal. Or perhaps a commonly understood metaphor.<BR/><BR/>In my work I often liken myself to an interpreter between "museum nerds" and "computer geeks" as most of my time is spent trying to make those two groups understand each other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-81934466586148299112009-02-10T09:35:00.000-08:002009-02-10T09:35:00.000-08:00Thats an interesting article, I would like to thin...Thats an interesting article, I would like to think about it more and write a more detailed response but I've just accidentally knocked myself over the head and may pass out in a minute. <BR/><BR/>Before I do, I'd like to note a little linguistic difficulty with the metaphor of "pot luck" coming from the UK I had never heard that term relating to "bringing food for a collective meal" we would use the term picnic or maybe something else, instead I would think potluck would simply mean "you never know what you're going to get". It would usually be taken to mean a potentially negative situation could occur. <BR/><BR/>In other words I think this might be another case of a problematic metaphor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-12990959342721581412009-02-10T07:07:00.000-08:002009-02-10T07:07:00.000-08:00Greedy? Ha, ha.Greedy? Ha, ha.Richard McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08116670530209197915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-37470496802914652872009-02-10T07:01:00.000-08:002009-02-10T07:01:00.000-08:00Richard,I absolutely agree with you and maybe I sh...Richard,<BR/>I absolutely agree with you and maybe I should have taken a step back to say that my personal and explicit interest is in metaphors that can enhance the visitor experience. You are a conservator; I'm an exhibit designer. We're both greedy to apply new ideas and models to the things about which we are most passionate.<BR/><BR/>Thomas, thanks for sharing the link! I'm very curious to imagine how the physical spaces of museums and their collections could be "linked" in a meaningful way onsite.Nina Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-48549541242505245892009-02-10T00:36:00.000-08:002009-02-10T00:36:00.000-08:00Hi Nina, thanks for a thoughtful post. I wrote abo...Hi Nina, thanks for a thoughtful post. I wrote about the possibility of a wikimuseum back in 2006 in this post: <A HREF="http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2006/12/22/wikimuseum/" REL="nofollow">http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2006/12/22/wikimuseum/</A>, basically saying that a wikimuseum should be understood as a physically distributed repository of collections. Will be back with further thoughts on this.Thomas Söderqvisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04066022796534125366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-73542299643646102702009-02-09T19:23:00.000-08:002009-02-09T19:23:00.000-08:00Interesting thoughts on metaphors. I would add to...Interesting thoughts on metaphors. I would add to the things that worry me: that fact that "New Media" is often too fascinated with New Media (witness the MW 2009 nepatistic web awards). <BR/><BR/>It's wiki-wiki for the sake of wiki. <BR/><BR/>One of things I'd like to see happen in 2009 is the social medians take on the preservation of art by finding ways that information (images, words, ideas) can be useful for the preservation of cultural property.<BR/><BR/>Not much of a metaphor there, though. Just work.Richard McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08116670530209197915noreply@blogger.com