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Item MAW museum 2.0 : bringing participatory programs to Waco.(2017-06-22) Doyen, Matthew.; Ames, Eric S.; Museum Studies.; Baylor University. Dept. of Museum Studies.During the Fall of 2016 and the Spring of 2017, I partnered with the Museum Association of Waco (MAW) to create a Traveling Community Museum. The public outreach project was completed in two phases. In the first phase, we hosted creation stations at the Farmer’s Market and Cultural Arts Fest. The second stage was inclusively pop-up museums, which are temporary displays created by visitors, and was located at businesses around the city. The goal of the project was to spread an awareness of MAW, to promote a love for Waco, and to make an inclusive museum experience.Item "Railroad iron is a magician's rod" : preserving and presenting historic railroad maps through the "magic" of digitization.(2011-01-05T19:47:32Z) Ames, Eric S.; Holcomb, Julie.; Museum Studies.; Baylor University. Dept. of Museum Studies.As digitization projects have become increasingly common, museums of all sizes have fallen under the spell of putting their archival materials online. But the process involves a great deal of advanced planning, sifting through software and hardware options, and finding the scanners and staff to carry them out. Often, small to medium-sized museums lack the resources to carry out a successful digitization project on their own. This project outlines a collaboration between the author and the Railroad and Heritage Museum (RHM) in Temple, Texas. The RHM is home to a collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century railroad engineering survey maps that are often requested by researchers. The RHM had expressed interest in digitizing them and placing them online, but lacked the staff and scanners necessary to do so. Using the resources of the Riley Digitization Center at Baylor University, the author digitized 326 maps and placed them online using Flickr (a digital asset management solution) and Pachyderm (a Flash-based Web site authoring software created for use by museums). This project details the steps involved in that process, as well as some recommendations for museums of modest size that seek to create their own online presence with limited resources.Item Take me to the movie show : curating and creating digital content.(2014-06-11) Lovell, Hannah Haney.; Ames, Eric S.; Museum Studies.; Baylor University. Dept. of Museum Studies.The digital presence of museums has continually grown in recent years. This project examines the processes of digitizing a collection and creating digital content. The goals of this project were to select 155 pieces from the Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music, digitize them, and then to create audio files for a selection of these pieces. This project utilized the resources at the Riley Digitization Center and the Crouch Fine Arts Library at Baylor University to both digitize and create content. This project serves as a reference for the processes and challenges of selecting and creating digital content.