The annual Museums and the Web conference offers a nice overview of the state of affairs around museums and the internet. Trending topics were of course the subjects that are also relevant elsewhere, such as mobile, augmented reality, social media etc. There was also a lot of attention for the online collections, open data, organization of web projects, the development and sharing of web strategy and the Google Art Project.
LOVE by Robert Indiana, PhiladelphiaJust like last year, I am also happy to report on the Museums and the Web conference that is visited, populated and filled by a growing group of Dutch people. This year the conference was in Philadelphia.
For years, the congress has had a fixed structure of pre-conference workshops, pre-conference tours, plenary and parallel sessions, demonstrations, unconference sessions, crit rooms, breakfast sessions (birds of feather) and qatar phone number list receptions. In addition, of course, meetings and conversations in the corridors, the lobby of the hotel and in the evening in the pub. And also a lot, a lot of tweeting. According to Summarizr, Heritage 2.0 from the Netherlands was the most tweeting with 528 of the 13,650 tweets with the hashtag #mw2011 .
The opening was a bit disappointing with a session on statistics ( Grounding Digital Information Trends ). Figures and trends that everyone who is involved with the web should have in their back pocket. The rest of the four-day conference more than makes up for this disappointment. I will give a thematic bundle of a number of presentations and observations in themes. For the entire program and the papers, extensive information can be found on the website of Museums and the Web 2011 .