Museums and Broadband

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Museums and Broadband

• Introduction
• Some implications of the broadband agenda in the
  UK
• Broadband what is it good for?
• Museums and broadband

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Museums and Broadband

• Implications of the broadband agenda in the UK
• DTI on UK plc
• there is no room for complacency
• Broadband Stakeholder Group on role of UK in ICT
  industry
• significant technology assets are owned by US
  based corporates
• services are run out of low cost economies
• but - UK strong in creative industries

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Museums and Broadband

• Broadband what is it good for? - 1
• Is seeing what broadband does better than
  knowing what broadband is?
• Some Google search results
• 'what is broadband' - 22,000 hits in 0.20
  seconds
• 'broadband what is it good for' - 22 hits in
  0.39 seconds
• 'what is broadband good for' - 6 hits in 1.45
  seconds

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Museums and Broadband

• Broadband what is it good for? - 2
• Think about existing media
• paper-based publication - (books, magazines)
• broadcast - (radio)
• programme - (TV)
• interactivity - (web pages)
• interaction - (video conferencing, chat rooms)
• Broadband allows us to combine many features of
  each of these media and more in new ways
• broadband is a new platform, a new medium

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Museums and Broadband

• Broadband what is it good for? - 3
• Is it about technology? Or is it about
• vision
• collaboration
• content
• If so how do we best demonstrate this...

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Museums and Broadband

• Museums and broadband - 1
• Museums have
• rich media content
• curatorial expertise
• mission to educate
• vision to exploit the web

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Museums and Broadband

• Museums and broadband - 2
• Museums can lead in exploring the potential
• e.g. roll out of a national museum site, with an
  education remit, in a county context (Hampshire)
• feasibility workshops where teachers and curators
  can work with content to explore what broadband
  can really deliver
• Other institutional and commercial players are
  keen to see what new things they discover...

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