[Museum] Digital Partnerships: Museums and Digital Humanities Workshop

[Vera Moitinho <veramoitinho@gmail.com>]

Digital Partnerships: Museums and Digital Humanities Workshop

Registration is now open to ALL for a FREE afternoon workshop, hosted by UCLDH, on 31st January 2013 beginning at 1:30pm.


'Digital Partnerships' will focus on how museums and universities can work together when it comes to digital innovation.
A drinks reception will be hosted afterwards at the Grant Museum of Zoology nearby.
It will explore digital innovation and the relationships between museums, universities and their users. Digital innovation means that museums now find themselves in a new environment in which visitors can interact to create, curate, organise and share their own experiences.
Leading to big questions around how we research and understand digital innovation in a cultural context. This event will bring researchers and museum professionals together to consider innovative practices, and develop new research ideas.


Speakers: Matthew Cock, Head of Web at the British Museum; Jane MacDonald, ToTEM Project Administrator at Edinburgh College of Art; John Hindmarch, PhD student at UCL; and Jack Ashby, Manager at the Grant Museum.


Register at http://digital-partnerships.eventbrite.co.uk/.
Hurry, space is limited!

Email Rachel directly with any questions at
rachel.kasbohm.11@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:rachel.kasbohm.11@ucl.ac.uk?Subject=Digital%20Partnerships%20Workshop>.


Sarah Davenport
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Digital Humanities
Department of Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT

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