Rebecca is co-curator of the “What’s On the Menu?” project, a website that invites audiences to transcribe the New York Public Library’s menu collection and build a seriously awesome culinary resource. Rebecca spoke with us about crowdsourcing and described the many ways visitors use the website called “What’s On the Menu?” Rebecca has always…
Month: October 2013
Lori Byrd Phillips, Digital Marketing Coordinator, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Lori Byrd Phillips is the Digital Marketing Coordinator and Wikipedian-in-Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. She is also highly involved in the GLAM-Wiki initiative, an international group of Wikipedians who assist cultural institutions in collaborating with Wikipedia in order to share multimedia content and cultural expertise. Lori talked with us about open authority, Wikipedia…
Peter Gorgels, Internet Manager, Rijksmuseum
Peter Gorgels is responsible for the major redesign of the Rijksmuseum website, which coincided with the museum’s reopening after extensive renovations. Peter talked with us about the website’s role in opening up access to collections and marketing the museum, and how people are (and aren’t) engaging with the thousands of hi-res images that are now…