Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Located accountabilities in technology production
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems - Special issue on Ethnography and intervention
Taking technomethodology seriously: hybrid change in the ethnomethodology-design relationship
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: "Interpretive" approaches to information systems and computing
Fluid ontologies for digital museums
International Journal on Digital Libraries - Special section on Digital Museum
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
Ethnomethodological architectures: Information systems driven by cultural and community visions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
The Information Society
Blobgects: Digital museum catalogs and diverse user communities
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Enhancing art history education through mobile augmented reality
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Directing gaze in narrative art
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
From information delivery to interpretation support: evaluating cultural heritage access on the web
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
Going beyond access: On-line education in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
Education and Information Technologies
Remembrance of games past: the popular memory archive
Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death
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Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of “Museum 2.0” for reaching and engaging with new audiences. As technological advances are opening up the ways in which museums share information about the objects in their collections, the means by which museums create, handle, process, and transmit knowledge has become more transparent. For this to be done effectively, however, some underlying contradictions must be resolved between museum practices, which privilege the account of the “expert,” and distributed social technology practices, whose strengths lie in allowing for many, sometimes contradictory, perspectives. This article presents a theoretical position and framework for the adaptation of Web 2.0 technologies within the traditional work of the museum, in ways that support the generation and representation of knowledge in, by, and for diverse communities. We then expand on this theoretical perspective by discussing several case studies of exploratory work in this area, and close the article by presenting a few tactical, bottom-up initiatives that museums and distributed communities can take to facilitate the diffusion of this new conceptual framework. Though the subject of this article is online museums, the issues are relevant to all online collections, in particular portals, online public access catalogs (OPAC), and content management systems.