Sunday, October 28, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Laureen and Kristina papers
New World Blogging - It's kind of a more convenient, more interactive, more interesting newsletter with more depth, a bigger audience, and more channels. If it could replace a newsletter it might be cost-effective, too, or if it could bring in new visitors. Still might need ways for people to request print/mail version only.
Audiences, Visitors, Users - Excellent discussion of the difficulties involved in knowing who is looking at your web site and what they are getting out of it. It's no wonder people often tend to just go along with the hype and imagine that the hyperreal has to be done--you'll surely look rather silly if you don't. Yet there are just as surely good and bad web sites, so paying attention to it, how it can be made better, etc is said here to be worthwhile. Part of it I think is simply building up a community of interest and involvement, making your museum known in the world of knowledge and information, and communicating your message--esp to those who listen to it.
Audiences, Visitors, Users - Excellent discussion of the difficulties involved in knowing who is looking at your web site and what they are getting out of it. It's no wonder people often tend to just go along with the hype and imagine that the hyperreal has to be done--you'll surely look rather silly if you don't. Yet there are just as surely good and bad web sites, so paying attention to it, how it can be made better, etc is said here to be worthwhile. Part of it I think is simply building up a community of interest and involvement, making your museum known in the world of knowledge and information, and communicating your message--esp to those who listen to it.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Jordan and Jeff papers
OpenCollection seems like a move in the right direction for museums. I like how it puts the museum catalog close to the public web user interface--should lend itself to incorporating catalog records into web exhibits and whatnot in some imaginative ways. I also like the image manipulation facilities it seems to have, and the use of authorities.
On the other hand, museums are a bit slow, you might say, in adopting some of this technology. Better late than never, but the paper still reflects some of this naivete. They say "All access to OpenCollection is via a web browser-based user interface. No other software is required." This is very well and good, but what software is used for the database itself ??? No clue.
The My Evidence paper does a good job of taking you through the design team's process. It seems like an interesting project, and I think they did a good job on it, though I think they could benefit from incorporating some non-scientific beliefs and values into it as well. If nothing else this would help its appeal to a larger and longer audience.
My main problem with the paper is that it reads like a boring mystery. They could give us some intriguing end results up front so we readers would have more interest in the process they went through, or they could provide more foreshadowing, or do something to alter the slow chronology of one thing after another, starting at the beginning, etc.
On the other hand, museums are a bit slow, you might say, in adopting some of this technology. Better late than never, but the paper still reflects some of this naivete. They say "All access to OpenCollection is via a web browser-based user interface. No other software is required." This is very well and good, but what software is used for the database itself ??? No clue.
The My Evidence paper does a good job of taking you through the design team's process. It seems like an interesting project, and I think they did a good job on it, though I think they could benefit from incorporating some non-scientific beliefs and values into it as well. If nothing else this would help its appeal to a larger and longer audience.
My main problem with the paper is that it reads like a boring mystery. They could give us some intriguing end results up front so we readers would have more interest in the process they went through, or they could provide more foreshadowing, or do something to alter the slow chronology of one thing after another, starting at the beginning, etc.
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