Ethnographic Observation of Museum Visitors
A few weeks ago at the Ashmolean we had an excellent workshop delivered by the fabulous Frankie Wilson, Head of Assessment at the Bodleian Library, on applying ethnography based observation … Continue reading
The Long View – Futures Event
One of the great things about working for Oxford University are the professional development opportunities: the university has a number of excellent training programmes and really encourages participation in conferences … Continue reading
Innovation Workshop 2016
For the past four years here at Oxford University Museums we have run something called the Innovation Fund. This is an internal funding stream to which colleagues form across the … Continue reading
NMDC Report Launch: Striking the Balance
At the end of January I was fortunate to be invited along to an event to launch a new report commissions by the National Museums Directors Council working with the … Continue reading
KulturAgenda – Young Leaders
Early this year I was very pleased to be offered a place on a new programme for emerging leaders within the museums sector offered by KulturAgenda – Young Leaders: European … Continue reading
Hidden Museum Project
Over the last eight months, a small team of colleagues from the Oxford University Museums and the university’s IT Services Mobile Development Team have been working on a project to … Continue reading
CIDOC CRM
Last week I attended a two day workshop at the Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC) in order to get my head around semantic mapping of data using CIDOC-CRM. Run by Research Space, the … Continue reading
Museums Computer Network 2015
From 4-7 November 2015 I was extremely fortunate to be able to attend the annual Museums Computer Network conference in Minneapolis, made possible by an MCN scholarship, for which I … Continue reading
UKMW15 Bridging Gaps, Making Connections
On Monday 26 October I started the work week by making my way into London and the British Museum for the annual Museums Computer Group Conference – UKMW15 Bridging Gaps, … Continue reading
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
On 14 October I made it to the final day of the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference at the Lowry in Manchester. I started my day with a panel … Continue reading