The last day of the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis saw a full morning of demonstrations, including two on museum-based social tagging, and an afternoon of papers, including one from the Powerhouse Museum’s Paula Bray on Flickr’s Commons, paired with a paper about Ontario Science Centre’s YouTube meetups.

Here’s a taste of the Saturday chatter:

@briankelly: At. Museum Pipes demo at #mw2009. Cool. Must subscribe to museumpipes.wordpress.com Thanks Piotr Adamczyk

@publichistorian: Sending in artifacts for GOAC: some players found Smithsonian intimidating; others excited to have items they made “accessioned” #mw2009

@zbartrout: Loving the buzz ArtsConnectEd is generating. Dozens of museums inquired about how to their content in ACE. Seems like a good sign. #mw2009

@georginab: We’ve seen people having Meet Ups in our museum, and have been dying to know how we can insert ourselves into the process #mw2009

@georginab: 999GlobalEvent (http://www.youtube.com/user/999globalevent): I hereby promise to try and get the Smithsonian involved in this! #mw2009

@KPfefferle: On Institutions and User Participation: “We’re looking for a fling when we should be thinking about marriage.” #mw2009

@kresin: What constitutes quality of life for museum visitors? How to help them to have a better experience & benefit in their real lives? #mw2009

Closer to home:

@Timh01: Powerhouse on top of things with their Tyrrell collection of images on Flickr Commons – well done guys need MV on the Commons ASAP #mw2009

@nikkitimmermans: powerhouse on flickr commons: Tyrrel sales didn’t drop, general sales increased slightly #mw2009

@KPfefferle: I love the concept of embracing controversial content and facilitating conversation – even seeding with multiple viewpoints #mw2009

And everyone was talking about this!

@Vexus_Nexus: Metadata sounds nicer when Finnish people say it #mw2009

The “backchannel” talk on Twitter also veered off into its own territory: What does all this digitization to make so many of these things possible cost, anyway?

@frankieroberto: Wondering how much it costs to ‘digitize’ a single archive photo? Would ‘first person pays’ model work? #mw2009

@sebchan: @frankieroberto we do the first person already. Still expensive if you bring in perm staff costs. #mw2009

@NancyProctor: @sebchan @frankieroberto Good point; would it be useful to compare per-image costs across museums&share tips on economies-been done? #mw2009

If you’re curious about just what it takes to get a photograph from a file or wall in a museum onto the Internet or even just into digital storage, keep an eye on Indicommons! More on that soon.

Tags: conferences, Museums and the Web, mw2009

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