The Sharypic PhotoWall at the Royal Ontario Museum: An experiment in real-time crowdsourcing

Abstract

The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Friday Night Live events are always busy on social media platforms, and last fall the museum was interested in finding a way to display crowdsourced photos in real time. As social media is the main promotional driver of these events we were interested in making the onsite social media experience more engaging and more visual than by using traditional twitter walls. Sharypic’s service was ideal for this purpose and this collaboration is the first of its kind in the cultural sector, on this scale.

Affiliations

Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto, Canada

Sharypic

Paris, France

Contributors

W. Ryan Dodge

Laura Haapio-Kirk

Conference

Publication date: July 2013

Publication date (Print): July 2013

Pages: 248-249

ID: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2013.52

Copyright statement: © W. Ryan Dodge et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 29 - 31 July 2013

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing