Get Involved in the Conservy Awards
The end of 2009 is drawing near. That means it’s getting close to that special time of year when everyone starts thinking about who is going to win a 2010 Conservy Award.
New to this year’s award contest is an open nomination process. Now you can help decide who made the best conservation-based web projects in 2009. This year we’d like to throw the process open to you, we would like to hear your suggestions for nominations in all the categories from last year, and we’d like to also hear suggestions for nominees for new categories too. Please leave your suggestions in the comments section of this post.
Please feel free repost this announcement and ask people to leave their suggestions here.
So…. who do you think deserves a Conservy Award in 2010?
Already? The 2009 Conservy’s were handed out in February of this year. So much could happen between now and February 2010!
While I haven’t been able to come up with nominees in all categories, and while there have been *so* many wonderful projects which have emerged since February, 2009, the following stand out in my mind:
Best Conservation Blog
Ellen Carrlee: fabulous reporting of events at the 2009 AIC annual meeting in Los Angeles and 2009 WAAC meeting in Juneau, AK
Christina Cole: a blog about her research into the identification of Eastern Woodlands quillwork dyes
Richard McCoy’s “No Preservatives” on Art21: Conversations with conservators about working on contemporary art
Best Use of Twitter to Share Information about Conservation Projects
Dale Kronkright @GOKConservator
Terry Weisser @tsweisser
A new category: Best Conservation-related Online Happening
May 1 Conservators’ Twitter Conversation followed by blog posts of radical change
Social Media at the 2009 AIC annual meeting
the re-launch of the Conservation Dist-list
I’ll have to give the other categories a bit of thought. Anybody else?
Hi Nancie,
Thanks for the comments, and great suggestions. You have to start early…. to get people motivated to get that amazing conservation web project finished by the end of the year to get their Conservy!!! What better motivation? And no problem with not making nominations for all categories…. everyone should feel free to nominate one or many projects they have particularly liked, this is just stage one of the process!
I was going to suggest: Walter Henry & John Burke for CoOL and services beyond the call of duty!
http://cool.conservation-us.org/
I also think Ellen Carrlee’s blog – for best conference based blogging (AIC & WAAC).
http://ellencarrlee.wordpress.com/
For best use of wiki-technology in sharing conservation info: Nancie Ravenel
http://socialmedia4collectionscare.wikispaces.com/
For best Presentation about social media and Conservation: Kevin Driedger
http://librarypreservation.blogspot.com/2009/06/socially-networked-preservation.html
Best Website Relaunch: Voices of the Past, formerly Preservation Today.
http://www.voicesofthepast.org
For best University Conservation Course Blog: Algonquin College – Applied Museum Studies
http://profconservation.wordpress.com/
For best University Research Department Blog: UCL. Conservation’s Catch 22 Research Cluster.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/conservation-c-22-blog/
Best use of social media for organizing conservators: Certification for Conservators.
http://certificationforconservators.wordpress.com/
For best sharing of free online conservation resources: Art Conservation Research Blog.
http://conservationresearch.blogspot.com/
That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head, I know there must be many many more that I am forgetting, but, those will I am sure appear in my next sets of suggestions, there is not a limit on how many times you can make suggestions…
Cheers, Dan
Best Neologism nominations:
PrezPunk
AcetonePunk
SavePunk
I vote for Jeff Guin’s and Sean Clifford’s hard work to make conservation and preservation accessible on NCPTT’s website. NCPTT’s grants program is funding many web based efforts, including the soon to be launched AIC conservation wiki. Additionally, NCPTT’s site features regular blogs, information about training, social media, research, and technology transfer. And there’s a place to download a plethora of grant products, podcasts, videos, and more!
Mary: Nice choice, that’d be this site http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ and this awards may be veering towards a how many awards can Jeff Guin get?! lol
Pete: Are you nominating me and you for awards? I like your style! lol.
Keep ‘em coming everyone. I’d personally love to see more from outside the United States, and in languages other than English, so please all the readers of this blog who read it in a variety of other languages around the world please make nominations.
Hi Daniel,
How about ‘best use of facebook for conservation outreach’ ?
I nominate Amber Kerr-Allison and Joyce Hill Stoner.
Nice choice Rose,
They also need one for best use of whatever it is they use to find all those stories online… I think they must have some secret device for searching the interweb.
Cheers, Dan.
LOL! No secret devices, just automatic google search updates I have sent to my email each day on various topics.
Glad everyone is enjoying them on Joyce and my Facebook pages and the IIC Facebook page!
Amber,
But, would you tell us if you did have a secret device for searching the interwebs?! lol.
Cheers, Dan
One of the best all around web projects I’ve seen is the Getty’s page on a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture by La Roldana:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/roldana/
The video “Making of a Polychrome Sculpture” is really excellent.
I love the other recommendations.
I’m glad we’re starting early on this and wonder if we’ll see more projects finish as we get closer to the deadline.
These nominations are excellent! They’ve got me eyeing my bookmarks for my favorites. I’ll post soon!
Ok. It’s the last day of 2009 and my last chance to nominate for the 2009 Conservy awards. Better get them in officially!
Most useful, dependable, go-to Weblog for conservation information: dancull.wordpress.com ! Hands-down my most frequently used starting point for digital resources in conservation. Also some of the most amusing, compelling and provocative thinking and writing in the conservation profession. Congrats DC – Sure glad you don’t need to sleep much!
Best Use of Social Media for Conservation related news: Amber Kerr-Allison! Both for her individual posts, her posts on behalf of the Lunder Conservation center at SAAM AND for the IIC Twitter and Facebook identities. Another indefatigable user of new media platforms to connect and enliven conservators around the world!
Best Professional Organization Web page for information on conservation issues, news and events around the world: http://www.iiconservation.org/news/ ! Again, I’m guessing that AKA has something to do with this, but it shows how easy it is to network information on multiple platforms and to engage in active, meaningful collaboration between websites.
Best Wiki in New Media: It isn’t conservation-specific but it is liable to have tremendous impact on how the public accesses conservation and preservation related information: the Smithsonian Web & New Media Strategy Version 1.0 WIKI: http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/ completely open format platform and completely transparent process! I look to it every week!
Best Use of New Media in 2009 for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Materials: Hats Off to Richard McCoy and Jenny Mikulay for their amazing collaborative imaginative Wikipedia Saves Public Art, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipedia_Saves_Public_Art . I can only say thank you for your creative, insightful and ground-breaking use of social- and new-media and the Wikipedia platform for preservation information sharing and access. This is an inspiring model for the use of new media for heritage preservation!
Best toe in the water venture into new media blogging about conservation: Claes Oldenburg: Conservation of Floor Cake (Week 4), posted by Cindy Albertson, Samuel H. Kress Research Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Margo Delidow, Sculpture Conservation Research Fellow at New York’s MOMA: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2009/11/23/claes-oldenburg-conservation-of-floor-cake-week-4 . My pre-program interns loved it and it might have continued except for the fact that we started asking too many interactive questions!
Best Institutional Web Page for multi-media information on conservation and preservation practices, materials and innovation: the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/. Another one of my “go-to” every week sites. Congrats!
Finally I would like to second a few of your nominations, DC:
Not To Go Unrecogmized: Walter Henry & John Burke for CoOL and services beyond the call of duty!
http://cool.conservation-us.org/
Ellen Carrlee’s blog – for best conference based blogging (AIC & WAAC).
http://ellencarrlee.wordpress.com/
For best use of wiki-technology in sharing conservation info: Nancie Ravenel
http://socialmedia4collectionscare.wikispaces.com/
Happy New Year! Let’s make 2010 the best New Media in Conservation Year, Ever!
Hi Dale,
Thanks for your comments and suggestions (esp. nominating me) some great conservation web sites and projects… and just in time!! I’d been waiting to see if you’d make it. lol.
Cheers,
Dan