by Roger Layton | Aug 30, 2017 | collections management, ETHER Base, ETHER Digital, ETHER Education, ETHER Governance, GRAP 103, Museums, workshops
GRAP 103 season has started, and is already in full swing as museums, libraries, archives, and galleries rush to meet the deadlines for financial reporting at the end of this financial year. We are offering a range of support to help your institution prepare and to...
by Roger Layton | Aug 11, 2016 | ETHER Conservation, storage management
Throughout the past couple of months we have seen a significant improvement in the exchange rates between the UK Pound and the Rand. The impetus of this was the Brexit vote by the British public, causing the start of the process where the UK will leave the European...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Latest News, oral history, virtual reality
What will museum of the future look like? There are some amazing new technologies which can help to bring the museum experience to the modern user, and especially to the youth who mostly expect everything to be digital. In this series of articles I will highlight some...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites
We are renewing our offer to museums for us to provide a Mini Web Page which is localised to your town or city, and which is then discoverable by tourists and others. This is part of a larger initiative to create a general cultural atlas of the country, similar to...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites, Museums
The first article in this series introduced the issues with museum web sites, including those issues common to all historical sites and memory institutions. In this second article I focus on some of the content required and how this content can be adapted to meet the...