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Bookings are now open for this free event on Friday 5th March hosted by BT Connected Earth and the Collections Trust.
Date: 5th March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Venue: BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ
The day will celebrate successful collaborative partnerships across museums, libraries, archives and beyond, showcasing projects that have found exciting ways of making collections accessible to new audiences.
Through breakout sessions and a panel discussion, the event will also highlight how these partnerships can inspire future projects.
Speakers include:
- Roy Clare, MLA – Keynote address
- Nick Poole, Collections Trust – Introduction
- Jason Webber, Museum of London – Exploring 20th Century London
- Siân Wynn-Jones, BT Connected Earth – Contemporary Collecting in Partnership: a reality matrix
- Simon Floyd, Renaissance East of England – SHARE
- Liza Giffen, University of Leeds & Kirsty Shields, M&S Archive – Marks in Time
- Tilly Blyth, Science Museum – Locating Communications Heritage
- Anra Kennedy, Culture 24 – Caboodle
- Almut Grüner, Thackray Museum & UKMCG SSN – Medicine at the Movies
Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and there will be plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss current issues.
To reserve your free place, please complete the booking form at: http://tiny.cc/Ib08K
Do you know places in London that are significant for the history of communications, computing and information technologies?
We are looking for suggestions that will help us in an experimental project to guide mobile users through the UK’s rich history of technology. The project is called Locating Communications Heritage. In the pilot phase we are finding out how best to guide people walking around London with a mobile phone, using the locatability function of recent smartphones to reveal the significance of sites.
The idea is to link places to objects as well as to link to further contextual and archival information. There will also be the ability to record users’ memories of the history of communications technology.
So for example, if you were walking down the Strand you will see on your phone that UK’s pioneering BBC radio transmitter, 2LO, operated from Marconi House. By clicking, you could find out more about the 2LO, an extraordinary object, at the Science Museum. If your grandmother was a 2LO operator, you could record her recollections.
Places could be the sites of interesting machines (such as 2LO or the LEO computer at Cadby Hall), places of invention (such as John Ambrose Fleming’s thermionic valves in Bloomsbury), birthplaces, buildings (such as the BT Tower), or places where communications were vital (such as the London Stock Exchange).
Examples could be from the deep or recent past.
If you have examples you would like to share, or if you would just like to stay in contact with this experimental project, then please email me at ucrhjea@ucl.ac.uk,
and/or
leave a message for us by replying to this blog message.
cheers
Jon
Dr Jon Agar
Imagine you are on a journey across Britain. The landscape you pass through is rich in historical meaning, yet the knowledge of this history is compartmentalised: some lies in everyday experiences and memories, some lies in scholarly monographs, some is found on display (and even more, behind the scenes) in our great museums. We live in an old
country – but its meaning can be disconnected and hidden. Surprisingly this situation is true even for the aspects of our lives that seem so modern, so vivid, so everyday: the communications technologies that we use to organise our lives.
This research network will look at how we can reconnect this meaning to our lives. It will explore the potential benefits of and barriers to the creation of a mobile and web service in the history of communications. The project will develop a small pilot service to look at what happens when users can access, view and create the history of communications technology in relevant locations. Through the pilot project the research will share knowledge across a network of academic historians of science and technology, museum professionals, commercial partners, and users.
Find out more about this project, its research themes and participants.
The research network is a collaboration between UCL, Science Museum, Illumina Digital and BT. If you would like to know more about the network then please contact:
Dr Tilly Blyth
Curator of Computing and Information
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2DD
tilly.blyth@sciencemuseum.org.uk
0207 942 4211
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