May 2013
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Digital Data + Public Funds = Free Data
Digital data paid with public money means free data for the public, as they already paid for it! It’s hard convincing administrations, though #MuseumNext — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) May 13, 2013
May 19th
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MuseumNext 2013 - Post-Disaster Strategies for...
My presentation on post-disaster strategies in cultural heritage management can now be found here slideshare.net/califano/learn… #MuseumNext — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) May 15, 2013
May 14th
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Rijksmuseum - Fostering Curatorship
Why not become an independent ten-years-old curator with Rijksmuseum’s rights free images? MuseumNext 2013 http://t.co/cAwAUN0vpR — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)
May 14th
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Rijksmuseum - Sharing Images for Free
Search it, view it, get it, share it, use it - artefacts’ images are yours for free. The Rijksmuseum’s approach. Brilliant! #MuseumNext — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 7th
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Anniversaries...
I’ve survived 4 years of tumblr, and 2389 posts, today…   ;-)
May 4th
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April 2013
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Museums Without Walls - A Doctoral Thesis →
http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/2154/1/de_la_Rocha_Mille,_Raymond.pdf de la Rocha Mille, Raymond (2011). Museums without walls: The museology of Georges Henri Riviere (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London). Patrick Boylan, Professor Emeritus of Heritage Policy and Management since 2004 at City University, London, shared on Facebook this link to the unpublished thesis of one of his...
Apr 30th
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People Power: Volunteers in the age of austerity |... →
UK’s Museums Association offers a full day workshop on volunteering at museums, on 24 May 2013, at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In times of severe budget cuts, learning how to be more flexible and creative, focusing on volunteers’ expectations, means widening the museum’s volunteers range and being able to offer new services.
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Archives in Time and Space
Just finished editing the audio file with a (virtual) roundtable conversation between Simona Caraceni, AVICOM member and president of ICOM Italy’s Thematic Committee on Audiovisuals and New Technologies for Museums, and myself, addressing digital archives’ best practices, challenges, and requirements. Should be out by mid-June in both Italian and English…
Apr 25th
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Minaret of ancient Aleppo mosque destroyed - Al... →
No words needed…
Apr 25th
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Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) has shared a...
25 Aprile, festa della liberazione da fascisti e nazisti. Auguri, ma ancor bisogna andar: restano corrotti, collaborazionisti e inciucioni! (via @a_califano on twitter)
Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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WatchWatch
Tashkent - New album record (first day) by “Tears of the Sun” group. Starring drummer Compressor Man Stas, and others…
Apr 15th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Of Mediums and Messages - Al Jazeera English →
McLuhan, 50 years after… what was clear to him BEFORE social networks came into place. Well worth reading!
Apr 7th
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Shashliks in Tashkent
Wonderful shashliks (sheep and veal) with raw onions, Ferghana nan-bread, vodka and beer, yesterday in Tashkent. Thanks to Nikita for that! — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)
Apr 6th
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Two Museums in Karakalpakstan - George Edgar →
An interesting, recent update about the goings-on at two museums in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan).
Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Bamiyan in Winter
Video: Skiing Afghanistan nyti.ms/11T8qcc — Fereshteh Forough (@f_forough) March 29, 2013
Apr 1st
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Building Schools in Afghanistan withEconomy and... →
fereshteh-forough: In 2006 I started Film Annex with the intent to support independent filmmakers financially and allow them to generate revenues on the Internet; the concept was simple; only professional film content and no user generated content was allowed on Film Annex. Today we have 300,000 registered users and of those 40,000 are Film Industry Professionals A sound project with an...
Apr 1st
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March 2013
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Mar 30th
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Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts... →
Social media as THE main productivity tool. Fully agree…
Mar 29th
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FOSS in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Particularly happy, today, about the fact that my presentation to the ROSCCA 2013 Conference will take place in the Stallman Room: “Free as in Freedom”…   ;-) I’ll be speaking about the 2009 and 2012 earthquakes in Italy and the unsatisfying approach to great risks management til now in a presentation running under the title: “Learning from Mistakes: A different...
Mar 27th
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“… Et d’autres Roméo et d’autres Juliette…”
– Strange as it may seem, it is Corto Maltese’s third African adventure (Hugo Pratt, Pif Gadget, n. 204, 22.01.1973) that is resounding in my ears, while I prepare myself to my new trip to Central Asia, starting tomorrow: Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan. Back by mid-April,...
Mar 23rd
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Mar 20th
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Mar 17th
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Conservation and Management of Historic Cities - A... →
Forty case studies presented in October 2012 by UNESCO. A lengthy, detailed paper (EN, FR, ES).
Mar 17th
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Intercultural Communication →
Mar 17th
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Content Technologies: DAM, CMS and Collections... →
Though written way back in 2010, this post by NY-based Leala Abbott is both very clear and entertaining… Worth reading, colleagues museum professionals.
Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Sar-e Pul, Afghanistan - Endangered Timurid... →
Dr. Jonathan Lee, ICOMOS member (New Zealand) has just shared on LinkedIn an information released on 26 February 2013 by Wadsam, the Afghan Business News Portal, writing: “I draw attention to plans to build a new bridge over the Sar-i Pul river in N. Afghanistan. The current bridge is probably Timurid. It is likely the medieval one will be replaced, damaged or lost.”
Mar 10th
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“Zakhmee shamsher jour mehsha, zakhmee zabon nay.”
– “The wound from a sword will heal, the wound from a word not.” (via Edward Zellem on Twitter)
Mar 10th
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Portugal – Serralves Museum, Job Opportunity →
Job opportunity as Head of Education at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum and Sculpture Park (Portugal). Expiring on 17 March 2017
Mar 10th
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The Prime Radiant: Masterlist of Writing Help for... →
hermajestyhelps: *always adding more General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice How to be Confident in Your Writing Start Your Novel Already! Why First Chapters Matter How to Outline a Novel Incorporating Flashbacks Word Building 101 Common Mistakes in Writing Tips… Excellent points, Esau! Thanks for sharing…
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Alessandro Califano, FreeLance Cultural Heritage... →
Alessandro Califano is Senior Curator and Head at CRDAV, the City of Rome Visual Arts Research & Documentation Centre, Communication Manager at ROSCCA2013 (Tajikistan), and FreeLance Cultural Heritage Consultant. Below is an interview of him about digital media and performing arts in Afghanistan, Central and South Asia
Mar 4th
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Towards A Digital Knowledge Society
Just finished answering an interview on Central Asia, innovation, development, and the digital knowledge society #Afghanistan #FOSS — Alessandro Califano (via twitter @a_califano)
Mar 3rd
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Mar 2nd
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February 2013
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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100 Museums to Visit Before You Die →
sage12: I’ve made it to 27! Or maybe 28 (I think I went to the National Air and Space Museum during our eighth grade trip to DC, but I can’t quite remember). I am DYING to visit the Reina Sofia, Vatican, Hermitage, BALTIC, and Robben Island Museums. I had no idea there is a National Museum of Health and Medicine, but now I am super intrigued. And obviously I will be hitting up the Phallus Museum...
Feb 16th
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My Touching Artefacts in Museums case study (National Museum of Afghanistan) just out in MP, #Museums Association :-) museumsassociation.org/museum-practic… February 15, 2013
Feb 15th
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