Fiona Romeo
Digitising ships and stars
Fiona Romeo is Head of Digital Media at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. She produced community platforms for a British ISP and the BBC before going on to produce Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, a massively multiplayer online game for 10-14 year olds. She then crossed over into the museum sector, leading the development of an interactive exhibition for the Science Museum: The Science of Spying. She's now experimenting with new ways to visualise museum data, and recently produced a mobile service for casual astronomers.
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Astrotagging bots and citizen scientists
The Royal Observatory is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world; home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line. This talk will outline how digital media and the availability of huge quantities of data are creating new opportunities for the public's participation in astronomy. In particular, Fiona will talk about the Royal Observatory's mobile guide to the night sky, Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, and a new programme of citizen science.