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By: Ilaria D'Uva

Ilaria D'Uva — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 19:55:33 +0000

Dear Giovanni,
may be the mail got lost, because all the participants got it.
I am glad you are coming to Florence as well.
See you pretty soon!
Ilaria

By: Giovanni Fontana Antonelli

Giovanni Fontana Antonelli — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:35:50 +0000

Dear Ilaria,
Thank you. As a participants formally registered in the conference, I would have appreciated being informed, on time, by the Conference Secretariat. However, I respect the decision of the Scientific Committee about the selection of papers. I look forward to seeing you in Florence as I am very interested in the conference topic.
Best. Giovanni

By: Ilaria D'Uva

Ilaria D'Uva — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:08:45 +0000

In reply to Giovanni Fontana Antonelli.

Dear Giovanni
did you not receive the communication from Museums and the Web.
I think in this case your paper has not been accepted.
I really hope to see you anyway in Florence.
Kind regards,
Ilaria

By: Giovanni Fontana Antonelli

Giovanni Fontana Antonelli — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:18:10 +0000

In reply to Ilaria D’Uva.

Dear Ilaria,
I understand that there must be some delay in finalizing the selection of papers and I don’t blame anyone because as a project manager sometimes I had to face the same type of constraints. However, I would really appreciate to know by when you will be able to notify about the acceptance of my paper – or not, as my schedule is quite busy in February and I have several commitments during that week of my journey to Italy.
I’ll do my best to attend at least one or two days of the event, but I need to know an exact date in case I have to present a paper, without considering that a presentation must be adequately prepared.
I am sure you understand my concerns. I count on a prompt reply.
Best
Giovanni

By: Giovanni Fontana Antonelli

Giovanni Fontana Antonelli — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:24:37 +0000

In reply to Ilaria D’Uva.

Dear Ilaria,
Any news re the acceptance of papers?
Best regards.
Giovanni

By: Serena

Serena — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:04:38 +0000

In reply to Titus Bicknell. When will it be possible to see a list of the actual speakers and their accepted proposals? It is too bad that the discounted early registration rate (not cheap) is available before any concrete agenda or information as to who will be speaking and at least the titles of their speeches is made available. Maybe you could prolong the early registration date at least until people can have that information? Frankly it all seems so rushed...

By: Titus Bicknell

Titus Bicknell — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:46:35 +0000

In reply to jvencken. We do not offer a daily registration for this event.

By: jvencken

jvencken — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:02:40 +0000

Is it possible to register for 1 or 2 days only?

By: Stefania Chipa

Stefania Chipa — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:53:31 +0000

In reply to Eli Kuslansky.

Hi Eli,
thanks a lot for your enlightening reflections.
On Feb 20 we will have a panel moderated by Antonio Gomez da Costa (ECSITE).
Hope to see you in Florence,
stefania

By: Eli Kuslansky

Eli Kuslansky — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:06:19 +0000

I think this conference is a fabulous idea and especially like the connection between storytelling in smart cities. I think there is also a larger opportunity for museums and cultural organizations in the evolving smart cities. These are new channels of engagements for not just content but also for shifting the role of cultural organizations in society. One example is the ECSITE Places program.

We are trying to create another model in Kansas City with John Fraser and Beverly Sheppard from NewKnowledge.org. we call this model Legible Cities. It is how museums can be instrumental as a dynamic element of a learning city in addition to being a destination in the city.

I believe that there are windows of opportunities for cultural organizations to use and leverage big data resources generated by them and their visitors to create vast cultural and other values as well. One of the missing pieces is to have the cultural associations initiate the development of the infrastructure that will allow museums to take full advantage of these opportunities. After all in the US alone, 850 million people visit cultural centers.

Here is a link for reference: http://bit.ly/1fb9WfK

This March I am hosting a panel at the Science Centre World Congress on Big Data in the Legible Cities. I mentioned this as it would be great to share information and resources as the panel deals with how science centres are working with similar technologies and themes. http://www.scws2014.org/programme/

I will see if I can come.