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Folksonomy With Practical Taxonomy, A Design For Social Metadata Of The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Peter W. Eklund, Peter Goodall, Timothy Wray, Vinod Daniels, Melanie Van Olffen

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a Digital Ecosystem that engages members of several communities, each with their own ontological relationships with the Pacific Collection of the Australian Museum. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is intended to support on-line community interaction using social-media technologies to extend the annotation of objects to suit the stakeholder’s own needs. The success of the system depends on leveraging the diffusion of language and encouraging a conversation between on-line communities. In this paper we explore the relationships between stakeholders, folksonomy and taxonomy, to reveal the design forces on our digital ecosystem. Our analysis …

Dramaturgy For My Darling Patricia Production "Africa.", Christopher M. Ryan

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Africa from My Darling Patricia, a company renowned for their unique approach to design and performance. Africa is a work for adults told from the perspective of children

The following link is a description of the production in which Christopher Ryan participated as Dramaturgist http://www.mydarlingpatricia.com/2010/africa/

"The Magicians Hat", Ian A. Mclean

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

With 30% of its population Aboriginal, the Northern Territory (NT) is a significantly different place to the southern coastal regions where most Australians live. So it should be no surprise that large numbers of Aboriginal artists are in the NT's newest contemporary art prize, the 'Togart Contemporary Art Award'. Last year they made up about 60% of the artists, this year 50% - which is the generally accepted estimate of the proportion of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal artists in Australia.