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Information and knowledge are being spread and shared more and more intensively on the Internet and in other networks. Museums, archives and libraries are syndicated in joint interfaces and portals, and used in many different ways - with or without our control. From the perspective of the user, inside distinctions between e.g. different practices and discourses in domains of museums, archives and libraries just don’t matter. From the perspective of the institutions, the virtual world is an opportunity to meet users and non-users where they are (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.). This digital accessibility forces us to rethink...

The 13th KOSMOS conference had to change from place to presence, from the physical to the virtual.

Today is the last day of the KOSMOS conference held at CTR in the University of Copenhagen.

The volcanic ashes and the thereby closing of airports all over Europe meant that only a few of the confirmed conference participants managed…

My own personal Preconference Tour

Written by curator Merete Sanderhoff,  National Gallery of Denmark. member of NODEM10

I’m in Denver, Colorado for the annual Museums and the Web conference. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ Before all the workshops and sessions take off Wednesday I planned a personal Preconference…

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