100 And Counting
Posted by Brian Kelly on February 18th, 2010
We have now published 100 posts on UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog since it was launched in January 2009. The aim of the blog was to enable UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage support team (myself, Marieke Guy and Ann Chapman) to have a mechanism for speedy publication of resources relevant to the cultural heritage sector. The blog also provides the team with a valuable opportunity to gain experiences of various issues related to providing and sustaining a blog service, which will inform our various workshops and briefing documents.
For those who may be new to the blog a summary of the approaches taken and highlights of the various posts is given below.
- Guest Blog Posts
- We publish guest blog posts from practitioners in the cultural heritage sector. These include a post on The Black Art of Blogging (which reported on the impact of a UKOLN workshop on blogging), a summary of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery’s The ‘On the Pull’ Project (which featured as a case study at one of the UKOLN’s Social Web workshops), another case study presented at a UKOLN workshop entitled When Peregrines Come To Town, a post by Nick Poole, Chief Executive of the Collections Trust (which described Collections Trust’s Digital Programmes on the OpenCulture Blog), a post by Margaret Adolphus, a journalist specialising in librarianship, the knowledge industry on Dull Library Web Sites and, most recently a post by Nicola McNee on Communicating with the Facebook generation.
- Blog Posts Related To Peer-Reviewed Papers
- Blog posts by UKOLN staff have provided access to papers and accompanying slides for peer-reviewed papers including papers on Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web (presented at the Cultural Heritage Online 2009 Conference) and a post on Clouds, Libraries and Museums (which described a workshop session based on a paper entitled “Software as a Service and Open APIs” written by Paul Walk).
- Blog Posts on UKOLN Presentations
- Blog posts have also provided an opportunity to report on talks given at a range of events throughout the country including the AIM 2009 conference, the CILIP-S and CILIP Wales conferences, the “Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues between Users and Archivists” conference, the MCG Spring Meeting and the Silos of the LAMS CILIP Executive briefing.
- Blog Posts on Addressing Institutional Barriers
- A recurring theme at the Social Web workshops we deliver are the institutional barriers to the exploitation of Social Web services in libraries, museums and archives. A number of the posts we have published have looked ways of addressing such barriers. In order to provide ease-of-access to the such posts we have created an addressing barriers category which groups these posts together.
- Links To Other UKOLN Blogs
- We have provided a monthly summary of posts published on other UKOLN blogs which may be of interest to the cultural heritage sector. For example, see the summaries for January 2010, December 2009 and November 2009.
- Multimedia Posts
- A number of the blog posts contains embedded multimedia resources, such as slides or videos, typically taken during presentations by UK staff. We hope that this use of multimedia and the provision of access to the resources used at our presentations will help to enhance the impact of the ideas given in the presentations.
We hope our readers have found the 100 blog posts of interest and value. If you have any comments on the blog or ideas for future posts we would welcome them.