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Project Description
The Horizon.Museum Project of the New Media Consortium (NMC) will identify key emerging technologies likely to impact cultural stewardship, education, interpretation, management, audience engagement, and other aspects of museum practice during the next few years. Using interviews, online tools, and other research to inform discussion and dialogue, the Project staff will work with an Advisory Board to identify such technologies over three time-to-adoption horizons: one year, two to three years, and four to five years.
Horizon Report
An annual publication, entitled the Horizon Report for Museums, describes six to eight of these technologies, highlights their potential relevance to cultural stewardship, education, interpretation, management, audience engagement, and other aspects of museum practice, and identifies promising applications or examples. The Report is published in electronic format and released under a Creative Commons license to facilitate broad distribution.
The audience for this publication is twofold. Museum directors and senior management will benefit from clear, concise descriptions—an executive summary—of the selected technologies and their relevance to museum practice. In addition, a broader constituency of cultural heritage professionals—including technologists, educators, conservators, curators, librarians, academics, and others will appreciate both the focused spotlight on museum technology and the advocacy tool and information resource that this report represents.
Advisory Board
The Horizon.Museum Project Advisory Board is a small multi-disciplinary group of leading thinkers and practitioners from both within and outside of the museum field. They provide insight, stimulus, case examples, and resource references to the Project, in order to inform the content of the Report. The Board will use a knowledge web framework for its discussions, drawing on a collection of tools and processes to enable knowledge sharing, knowledge generation, dialogue and discussion, and discovery between and among its participants.
Participation on the Horizon.Museum Advisory Board is by invitation, and participants are honored with a special listing and acknowledgement in the Horizon Report. The Advisory Board is the de facto author of the Horizon Report for Museums.
Commitment
Online meetings requiring an investment of 3-4 hours will be held asynchronously over two days each in March, April, and May. The Advisory Board will be also be asked to review and comment upon the pre-publication draft of the Horizon Report for Museums.
Costs
Service on the Advisory Board is voluntary and, at this time, neither honoraria nor support for participation are available.
