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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpvvvcGtY0

On “Being There”

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http://slideshare.net/nancyproctor

Innovation, revolution and radicalism in the museum

SI Mobile

http://SI.edu/Mobile

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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=GBaHPND2QJg&feature=youtu.be

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Image of Opera Paris

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The Multiplatform Museum

MUSEUM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

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Photo Christian Leiber http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/L_Opera/les_Choeurs/presentation.php

More than Multiplatform

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“More is different.”

Edward Hoover, 2010, from Flickr.

The Museum is a distributed network

Recruit the World!

“The Wikipedia of the Physical World”.A Crazy Idea?

Chris Anderson, “Reimagining the Smithsonian in the Digital Age” 2009

Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian.

There is nothing new under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9

6,000 employees: 6,500 volunteers

Thinking Outside the AudioTour BoxFrom Headphones to Microphones

“From we do the talking to we help you do the talking.” –

Chris Anderson, Wired, Smithsonian 2.0 Conference, 24 Jan 2009

“From interpretation to conversation.” – Max Anderson; “Gather, Steward, and Converse,” The Art Newspaper, 8 June 2010

40+ SI Mobile Projects to Date

SI.edu/Mobile

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http://halseyburgund.com/work/scapes/

http://halseyburgund.com/work/scapes/

Scapes: http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/16082

Manifesto: http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/62

Roundware: http://roundware.org

Mobile Transformations

1. “Stops” become soundtracks

2. Soundtracks are no longer linear

3. The broadcast is a conversation

4. The conversation is asynchronous

5. The body is the interface

Stories from Main Street

http://storiesfrommainstreet.org/

Access American Stories

http://www.si.edu/apps/accessamericanstories

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Smithsonian Mobile version 1 (2011)

http://www.si.edu/apps/SmithsonianMobile

Smithsonian MobileVersion 2 (2013)

Wikipedia

> 470 million visitors /month

> 17 million registered writers

~ 100,000 active writers

~ 24 million articles

> 285 languages

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear

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Location, location, location

Peter Sellers in Being There, 1979, Directed by Hal Ashby

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