2010 Horizon Report on New Technologies and Museums

2010:

• mobile
• social media
• augmented reality
• location-based services
• gesture-based computing
• semantic web

Woruldhord project homepage

An interesting collaborative idea from the University of Oxford, brought to my attention by the Bamburgh Research Project blog:

The project is part of the JISC-funded initiative Runcoco: How to Run a Community Collection Online and sets out to collect together into an online hoard, digital objects related to the teaching, study, or research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history. The collection is now open, and will close on October 14th 2010. Go to the collection site to make a submission.

The concept is quite simple. Members of the public, of academia, of special interest groups are asked to submit via an online web site any images, documents, audio, video they have of material they would be happy to share with the rest of the world to further the study of Old English and the Anglo-Saxons.

We would welcome images of buildings, sites, artefacts; teaching handouts or presentations; audio of readings or interviews; video clips of crafts, sites; and so on. In fact anything that you feel would benefit teachers, researchers, and interested parties who wish to learn more about the Anglo-Saxons.

Oxford University will collect the material together and then make everything submitted freely available on the web for educational purposes to a worldwide audience. You will retain copyright over anything you submit but you will simply have to agree to its redistribution on the website. The collection is now open, and will close on October 14th 2010. Go to the collection site to make a submission.