Call for Participation: Museums and the Web International Conference 2011

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline Thursday September 30, 2010

Museums and the Web 2011 the international conference for culture and heritage online

April 6-9, 2011

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage online. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web -- wherever the network may reach.

* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *

The MW program is built from the bottom up. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, online presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. Proposals are peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee.

The bibliography of past MW papers (all online since 1997) can be searched at this link.

* PROPOSAL FORM *

Online proposal submission is required. Use the form linked from here.

[A profile in the MW online community is required to submit. It's quick and easy to set up.]

Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted for the program.

Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others.

* SESSION FORMATS *

MW sessions vary in format -- from formal Papers to informal Birds of a Feather lunches, and from structured Professional Forums to timely Unconference Sessions. Find the best format for your idea, by reviewing the descriptions at http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.sessionFormats.html

DEADLINES

Proposals due September 30, 2010 - for papers, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2011)

Proposals due December 31, 2010

- for demonstrations (written paper optional)

* PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS *

The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the online discussion.

* NEED FURTHER DETAILS? *

Review the MW2011 Call for Participation online at this link.

Contact the MW2011 Conference Co-Chairs

David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics at mw2011@archimuse.com