Cultural heritage technologies, user experience design and research, digital humanities
I was interviewed for Museum ID magazine as part of a series of interviews with the 'alternative museum establishment'. The online version is accessible at Interview: Mia Ridge – open linked data and digital audiences.
I was invited to review the QRator project at UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology for the Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2012: QRator at the Grant Museum of Zoology.
I was invited to spend a week in New York as scholar-in-residence at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a museum of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to design. At the end of the week I presented my results to staff and wrote a post for their 'Labs' blog about my experience: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections. Or, “what can you learn about 270,000 records in a week?”.
My report was also included in Digital Humanities Now's Editors’ Choice: Exploring the Cooper-Hewitt Collection Round-Up.
I was invited to Auckland Museum to give a lecture on 'Inspiring connections with collections'.
Discussions with staff and the process of preparing for the talks inspired two blog posts: 'Designing for participatory projects: emergent best practice, getting discussion started' and 'What are the right questions about museum websites?'.
In April I was invited to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, in Wellington, New Zealand, to talk about the role of museum websites in the relationships between museums and their audiences.
Preparing for the talk, the discussion afterwards and another talk I did in Auckland inspired two blog posts: 'Designing for participatory projects: emergent best practice, getting discussion started' and 'What are the right questions about museum websites?'.