Our postdoc George A. Wright will present our latest research at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025). In the paper “From Notes to Models: Leveraging LLMs for Museum Closure Data”, we explore how large language models (LLMs) can support researchers in transforming unstructured notes into usable data models. This … Continue reading From notes to models: Leveraging LLMs for museum closure data
Tag: museum analytics
Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
New open-access journal article in the realm of museum analytics from the Museums in Pandemic project 🏛️. 📜 Andrea Ballatore, Valeri Katerinchuk, Alexandra Poulovassilis, and Peter T. Wood. 2024. Tracking Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study in Museum Analytics. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage. 17, 1, Article 2 (2023), 29 pages. … Continue reading Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The museum boom: A bird’s eye view
New overview article in Cultural Trends from the Mapping Museums project. 🏛️📈🔎📊 Abstract. During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Apart from the polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom in museums was not much investigated. Our project “Mapping Museums” collected and … Continue reading The museum boom: A bird’s eye view
Of museums, Covid, and social media
New open-access article from the Museums in the pandemic project 🏛️🌎💻 🦠 Abstract. This paper examines social media activity by UK museums during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a general perception that as museums closed their doors for extended periods, their digital presence increased to maintain connections with their audiences. However, much of the research conducted … Continue reading Of museums, Covid, and social media
[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2. Are you a recent PhD graduate or a … Continue reading [job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
New AHRC project on museum analytics
Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’. Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics
Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023
This is to archive Museum Analytics: new directions, the 1-day event we ran in May 2023 at KCL (official page on King's College London event blog). Programme ⏱️ When: Thursday 18 May 2023, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm (UK time) 📍 Where (hybrid): King’s College London, Bush House, (S) 1.01 (lecture theatre 1). For registration, please go to … Continue reading Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023
Mapping museums in the UK
This article, written with museum guru Fiona Candlin, is the culmination of years of tortuous data collection and analysis and outlines a detailed quantitative geography of UK museums. It's available open access in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. All the data and resources are freely available on GitHub. Abstract: Museums are important centres … Continue reading Mapping museums in the UK
The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022
I’m pleased to invite you to this event for the Mapping Museums project I am part of: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 18:00 GMT Location: Clore Management Centre, 27 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL Chair: Isabel Wilson, Arts Council England Speaker: Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology, Birkbeck Respondent: Lisa Ollerhead, Director, Association of Independent Museums Photo by … Continue reading The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022
How big is that museum?
Blog post co-authored with Fiona Candlin for the Mapping Museums project. What is a small museum? Or for that matter a medium or large museum? In the museum sector, size is generally measured in relation to visitor numbers, and in cases where several criteria are used, such as income or staff numbers, they are still … Continue reading How big is that museum?
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