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2008 Horizon Report
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What's New?

• Advisory Board are reviewing the technologies, challenges, and trends discussed in the Research Questions, and ranking them in the First Pass Rankings phase.
• The Methodology and Research Notes sections have been added.
• The list of resources tagged by the community for our review grows daily! See them at hzmuseum08 and use the hzmuseum08 tag to add your own!

Introduction to the Horizon.Museum Project Wiki

As you scan the sections below, you'll see a number of major areas with which you will soon become very familiar.

The Sandbox will be our primary work area. There you will find links to the activities in which we are actively engaged. The Sandbox will change as we move through the various processes involved in sorting through the technologies and issues we will consider as we progress toward the final list that we'll feature in the 2008 Horizon Report for Museums. Status and process advisories will always help you know what we are asking of you each week.

Below that you'll find a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, RSS feeds, and links that we've gathered to inform our work. The items in these areas are meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!

We also publish live RSS feeds on the Project wiki to ensure that we have access to the most up-to-date content. There is much material here and, with your help, it will grow in significance, as you add your own resources to the RSS list.

Horizon Report for Museums Sandbox – where we are doing our work

STATUS: The Advisory Board has entered responses to the four research questions listed below and are now ranking the responses in the First Pass Rankings phase of the project.

• Research Question One: How do the technologies that museums should be using today or during the next five years compare with the 2008 Short List of twelve technologies identified by the 2008 Horizon Report for higher education? That is to say, which are likely to enter mainstream museum use within the targeted timeframe? Which will be important, but on a different timeframe? Which of these technologies would fall off the list when considered through the lens of potential applications for museums and museum practice?

• Research Question Two: What technologies that are not on the list developed so far need to be considered in creating a "short list" expressly for museums? These might include technologies that have a solid user base in consumer, entertainment, telecommunications, imaging, or other industries.

• Research Question Three: What do you see as the key challenges related to the adoption of emerging technology in museums during the next five years?

• Research Question Four: What technology trends do you expect will have a significant impact on the ways in which museums approach their missions during the next five years?

Press Clippings – technology news and reports that inform our work

These catgories represent a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, links, and RSS feeds have been reviewed by the Advisory Board, with key articles that are tagged and moved to the top of each section. Please continue to add new ones!

• Museums and Technology
• Emerging Technologies
• Challenges and Trends
• Published 'Technologies to Watch' Lists
• Technology in Popular Culture
• Reports and Research
• Miscellanea -- Stories, Examples, Food for Thought
• Essays and Interviews on the Future

New Tools – collecting, filtering, and republishing

• Selected RSS Feeds
• Items tagged in del.icio.us

The 2008 Horizon.Museum Project Advisory Board – guiding our discovery and selection process

• 2008 Advisory Board
• About the Advisory Board