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The MuseumMobile wiki is an outgrowth of Tate’s Handheld Conference Wiki, which was initially developed for a September 2008 conference hosted by Tate Modern.
It is a free public wiki and continues to grow as a repository for resources, best practice, and conversation about mobile interpretation and technologies for museums and cultural sites.
Currently it includes the project pages for the Museums to Go open source/open platform mobile development project. Other pages will be added as new projects develop!
Contribute to the wiki by ‘requesting access‘ here. Normally you’ll get confirmation within 24 hours or less, depending on if we’re taking the weekend off!
Dear Nancy and other MuseumMobile readers,
I was wondering if there is some sort of ‘action plan’ people can use when they want to start using a handheld tour in their organisation or institution.
I have found numberous tips and tricks, but not yet a practical step-by-step plan.
Is this because it doesn’t exist (yet) or am I not looking in the right places?
Maartje (Intern, doing research on handheld tours in museums)
Maartje,
I created a page on the wiki so we can respond to your question collectively at:
http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/mobile-operations
If you would like to spell out the details of your project: its aims, your resources and vision – in a project page, I’d be happy to give you some pointers on the project plan in the open forum, and I imagine many others would have useful input as well. So you could ‘crowdsource’ your action plan and in the process create one that others having your question in future will be able to use!
Best of luck,
Nancy
Dear Nancy,
I’m administrator in the MuseumsWiki, and I want to invite you to present the MuseumMobile Wiki there.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at my user talk page there.
Best regards, Thomas
Dear nancy,
Thank you for the response.
This is the case: I have done research on handheld museumtours. All literature I could find was about the pro’s and con’s and tips on basic things.
The company I was doing the research for asked me if clear action plans exist. A step-by-step practical plan. For example:
step 1. Write a scenario
step 2. Make video and audio recordings.
And so on.
A projectpage would be great, becaus eI think many museums can benefit from the research done!