MMI Workshop Agenda

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Museum of the Moving Image Community Design Workshop Agenda

9:30 – 10:00am
Coffee and Pastries

10:00 – 10:45am
Introduction and Welcome

  • Background/Team
  • Workshop goals and objectives
  • Quick around the room introductions
  • Workshop agenda and logistics

10:45 – 11:30am
Group Exercise #1: Defining the landscape

What does it mean to catalog digital objects?

  • What do we capture?
  • Why do we document?
  • How does the information about digital objects (art, video games, images) get used? By whom? For what purpose(s)?
  • What does it mean within the museum context?

11:30 – 11:45am
BREAK

11:45 – 12:15pm
Breakout session #1: Workflow exercise
Create a visual representation of a ‘typical’ documentation workflow. Include the types of information collected and the format in which they are collected/delivered/distributed.

  • What information is collected?
  • In what order?
  • Are there dependencies?
  • What is the timetable?
  • What are the influences?
  • Passive or active process?
  • Formats?

12:15 – 12:45pm
Report back to full group

12:45 – 1:30pm
LUNCH

1:30 – 2:00pm
Break out session #2: Persona exercise
Participants will define one or more personas critical to the work of documenting and cataloging digital objects. Examples of personas will be provided to seed the conversation.

2:00 – 2:30pm
Report back to full group

2:30 – 3:00pm
Group Exercise #2: Museum Overlay

Circling back to the opening discussion of the day, how do the results of the previous two exercises inform an approach for cataloging digital objects within a museum?

3:00 – 3:15pm
BREAK

3:15 – 3:45pm
Break out session #3: Wireframes discussion/critique
Brief introduction to a proposed set of mock-ups that demonstrate an approach to acquiring and cataloging digital objects at the Museum of the Moving Image within CollectionSpace.

3:45 – 4:15pm
Report back to full group

4:15 – 4:30pm
Group Exercise #3: Viability beyond the Museum of the Moving Image
How might the work that MMI is undertaking be useful to you/your organization?

The goal of this conversation is to understand how useful the template(s) just discussed would be to you/your organization. What works? What doesn’t work and why? What would it mean for you/your organization to decide to use the same solution?

4:30 – 5:00pm
Wrap up, next steps.