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Cath commented on David Milne's blog post 'GLAM/Wiki Trial: Social History Photographs of Early 20th Century Queensland'

Yay! Great images, and it's wonderful that they're now so available.

November 19

Cath replied to Liam Wyatt's discussion 'GLAM-WIKI: Finding the common ground' in the group Museums & Wikimedia

It was a great event. What I don't understand is why there has been so little comment from Australian cultural workers. Sounds like UK is planning to hold its own GLAM-wiki event. Let's not wait for the UK discussion to take off before considering…

October 19

Cath replied to Angelina Russo's discussion 'GLAM-WIKI recommendations'

Hi everyone, I reckon a collaborative venture between Wikimedia and the GLAM sector is well worthwhile. And in that list of requests there is a lot of juice to fuel the project. So, I've just published a rather long post responding to the recommend…

October 15

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October 12

Cath joined Brianna Laugher's group

Museums & Wikimedia

For museums who want to learn more about engaging with the Wikimedia projects and editors (such as Wikipedia), and vice versa!

October 12

Cath commented on Angelina Russo's group 'CICADA'

There will be a contingent from National Archives, yep.

July 30

Cath commented on Angelina Russo's group 'CICADA'

I've just learned of an upcoming forum on 'Opening Australia's Archives' – see below. It doesn't appear to have been well-promoted. I can't find a webpage about it but here are the minutes from the predecessor meeting (PDF) and the flyer for the upc…

July 24

Cath commented on Liz Holcombe's group 'Web teams'

Following on from Tikka's comment, it was exciting on Monday to hear Tanner and Ludwig announce Government 2.0 Taskforce. The whole forum on Public Sphere was exciting, actually. And look there's a picture of me in the top row of pix, fourth from th…

June 24

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About Me:

I am a cultural technologist / digital engagement architect intent on empowering people to engage with and learn about themselves, the world and history.

My PhD thesis was a reading of the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework – as a site for informal learning. If you're not familiar with Freire's work, he was a Brazilian educator who practised a radical notion of dialogue with students: he was 'co-intent' on learning with them. My project explored how museums could be co-intent on learning with visitors.

Now that Web 2.0 has become mainstream, the idea of a participatory museum makes much more sense. The new museology has talked the talk of community dialogue for decades now. Web technology makes it technically easy to walk the walk. Baby steps are being taken all over the place – yay. There are still organisational cultural barriers to co-creation in most museums, but audience expectations will, I reckon, force the change. Bring it on!

I made my first websites in 1997 and am still continually awed and excited by the possibilities of web technology for personal and community development.

My skills include research; writing; editing; strategic, creative and visual thinking; and project management – all of which I have applied to my work in the field of digital culture.

Also happy to make contact with others in this field. Hello!

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Cath's Blog

Innovative ideas forum – some thoughts

I posted some thoughts about the National Library's 2009 Innovative Ideas Forum on another blog – what interested me most were the issues of trust, authority, and the *form* of the event...

Posted on April 9, 2009 at 12:04pm —

Mapping our Anzacs

A new way to explore and interact with records of World War I service people – including soldiers, nurses, officers, chaplains – is possible via Mapping our Anzacs.

Browse to a service record via maps with markers for each person's place of birth or enlistment. Once you've found a record, you can add a note or photo about that person to the scrapbook. Or you can jump from one person's details back into the maps to explore some more. It's amazing… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2008 at 7:15pm — 3 Comments

National Archives' first use of Flickr

National Archives of Australia's April Find of the Month uses Flickr to create and embed a slideshow of an album of photographs from Gallipoli in 1915.

It is a better way of viewing the album than our collection database RecordSearch currently provides – there, you can only get to each page via each (separate) item description page...

Posted on April 7, 2008 at 1:43pm —

Politics of cultural programming in public spaces

Rob Gehl from George Mason University is co-editing a book tentatively titled The politics of cultural programming in public spaces. Sounds good – see the call for papers. Abstracts are due by 21 April.

Posted on April 5, 2008 at 1:21pm —

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