Welcome to Every Object Tells A Story

http://www.everyobject.net/front.php

Every Object Tells A Story is collecting an online archive of stories about objects that people value. Whether a grandfather's watch or a quirky pint glass, everyone is invited to contribute stories and read the tales of others.
Staff at the V&A and its partners Tyne & Wear Museums, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Brighton & Hove Museums have also submitted stories about objects they particularly enjoy in their collections.
Every Object Tells a Story is produced by the V&A, with Ultralab and Channel 4, and commissioned by Culture Online.

Welcome to Every Object Tells A Story

http://www.everyobject.net/front.php

Every Object Tells A Story is collecting an online archive of stories about objects that people value. Whether a grandfather's watch or a quirky pint glass, everyone is invited to contribute stories and read the tales of others.

Staff at the V&A and its partners Tyne & Wear Museums, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Brighton & Hove Museums have also submitted stories about objects they particularly enjoy in their collections.

Every Object Tells a Story is produced by the V&A, with Ultralab and Channel 4, and commissioned by Culture Online.

A Coney Island State of Mind -The Brooklyn Museum's use of flickr

The Brooklyn Museum, in conjunction with their current photography exhibition Goodbye Coney Island?, have launched a Flickr group.

Users have been uploading their own photos of Coney Island, both contemporary shots and olders images such as this one from 1975 by Timewitness:



Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum has written a blog entry about the history of Coney Island rides as a popular subject for photographers, posting many of the fine contributions from Flickr members.

Do you have images of Coney Island you'd like to contribute?

Add your images to the Goodbye Coney Island? pool on Flickr.

Or delve deeper into the Brooklyn Museum's collection of Coney Island photographs via their online collections data.

Dictionary of Australian Artists

http://www.daao.org.au/

The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online is an open access and dynamic scholarly reference work.
You can search 6950 biographies by over 400 biographers, and watch for 473 new biographies currently in progress. You can discover themes and patterns from 45 years of art scholarship. You can create new biographies, comment or revise those previous, and write alternative interpretations on artists already covered.
The foundation data focuses predominantly on Colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. It is constantly being added to: this is only the beginning.
The DAAO invites art lovers and art researchers to search, discover and create Australian art history.

Rick Prelinger's Keynote at Future Histories

Archivist Rick Prelinger gave the Keynote Address at the Future Histories of the Moving Image Conference (Nov 16-18, 2007). He has posted a pdf of the presentation on his blog BlackOysterCatcher

You can access public domain films in the Prelinger Archives at The Internet Archive.

Users are encouraged to:

download, use and reproduce these films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. You are also warmly encouraged to share, exchange, redistribute, transfer and copy these films, and especially encouraged to do so for free.

Any derivative works that you produce using these films are yours to perform, publish, reproduce, sell, or distribute in any way you wish without any limitations.

You can also review, tag and discuss the films on the site

Art Wikimarathon 2008

Gather your friends and join in on the international Art WikiMarathon

When: January 26, 2008 from noon until 8pm EST
(or Sun Jan 27 from 4AM-noon, Sydney time)

Here's the deal:

January 26: ART WIKIMARATHON

Location: ANYWHERE
WIKI
Saturday, January 26
Roughly 12–8PM EST (9AM–5PM PST)

There’s a lack of art/artist information on Wikipedia, and we’re often too busy to find the time to contribute. In response, we’re setting aside one day when a crew of people collectively drop serious knowledge into wikipedia about art: from your favorite notable artwork, artist or exhibition, to our soon-to-be-famous peers. We’ll also add structural links to alumni, schools and categories like collective art groups, non profit orgs, etc.

Participants include:
Eyebeam Senior Fellows Steve Lambert and Michael Mandiberg; Marisa Olson, Bennett Williamson, Joe DelPesco aka Mr. Collective Foundation, and Jamie Wilkinson. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

IRC: irc.gimp.org #artwikimarathon ([irc://irc.gimp.org/#artwikimarathon link])
AIM: join chat: artwikimarathon

Thank's to Lucas Ihlein from NUCA for the tip
(Also worth taking a look at a call out to improve information on Australian artist-run initiatives in NUCA's discussion area.)

Library of Congress, Flickr and The Commons

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.
Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)

The Commons is a collaboration between Library of Congress and Flickr to "to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection." The images posted have "no known copyright restrictions" and everyone is invited to tag or comment on the images on Flickr.

LOC has also blogged about the enthusiastic response.

Kids Today: Representation of Teenagers in Museum Collections

It was the party that made the front page. A 16 year old in suburban Melbourne held a house party while his parents were away. 500 teenagers turned up and so did the police.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=67024

The Sydney Morning Herald cited "Social networking websites, email and SMS messages" as the technology to blame in a story published on January 14, 2008 and the next day called out to readers to SMS or email them with their opinions about teen parties.

The Age reported that the young man's party garnered international coverage no doubt in part because the 16 year old chose to speak to the press shirtless, wearing oversized yellow rimmed sunglasses, a hat and wrapped in a childrens pink bed cover.

The kid declared the party, "the best party ever" and the sensational party turned into a perfect sensational news story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc0CB6URrV0

No doubt the opinion columnists are ready to rage on about the problem with kids today. It's a perennial favorite.

Which got me thinking: how were teenagers and the problem with kids today represented in the past?

This blog is a workspace for a researcher working on the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project Reconceptualising Heritage Collections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Museum Collections and Documentation, a partnership with the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

This project is studying online museum collection environments and the new opportunities digital media provides for cross-disciplinary engagement and the co-production of collections information both within the museum, across curatorial areas and with stakeholder communities.

The aim of the study is to research and develop new approaches in which digital technologies can be used to broaden the interpretive capacity of museum collections data.

Please see sidebar for links to a wikispace you can participate in as well as my online presence in a variety of social authoring and social networking sites.