Exploring a “Multi-Museum, Multi-Media Collaboration”
- By Alexandra Sastre
- September 8, 2009
Social media tools are being used not just for outreach, but for sharing resources and furthering scholarly work – this is the hope of Bruce A. Falk of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a guest blogger on the Center for the Future of Museums site, Falk discusses the value of expanding the ways in which the intellectual community thinks about and makes use of Web 2.0 tools.
Using the Smithsonian Folkway’s Synchrotext as an example, he explores the potential of two-way content development, wherein not only can members of a museum or institution jointly craft a range of content online, but site visitors too can comment, respond and annotate the work, forming a doubly collaborative venture.
He states: “I envision the next leap forward will be to make resources accessible via a multi-media platform that enables users to compare and annotated audio and video recordings, complete with synchronized transcripts and notes. And why only text-based annotations? Why not music notation, images, audio, other video, even other equivalently-annotated video? The whole could be made fully searchable so that both the annotations and transcriptions also serve as sophisticated metadata that facilitates within-media searching.”
Though the model presents some challenges, particularly in regards to how such a venture is best funded and how to generate interest from the general public in contributing to scholarly dialog, it is a compelling acknowledgment of the fact that interdisciplinary, interactive learning is significant both in the realm of Web 2.0 and in the classroom.
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