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Mobile Crit Room
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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For fifteen years we've had a 'Crit Room' to create dialogue with web site designers and explore their visions and implementations. Now that there are mobile applications with different design demands, it's time to give designers of these experiences a place to expose what they have done to the same critical review. Come to see examples of the best, and learn what other designers think about them.
Professional Forum on Rethinking Evaluation Metrics
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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What are we measuring when we measure traffic on our Web site and how does it relate to our visibility on the Web? When we seek broad exposure on a range of social sites, and achieve it, how does it effect our data about use? Why are we measuring anyway, and what ought we be trying to learn?
Mini-Workshop on How to Evaluate Success
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
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In mid 2010 a group of 24 organisations and agencies from across the cultural heritage and arts sector in the UK began collaborating on a piece of action research addressing the issues around 'evaluating online success'.
Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons
Flickr Commons launched in 2008 as a platform for enhancing the discoverability of cultural heritage collections and for allowing users to tag, annotate, and repurpose these materials. The Commons now boasts 46 members and tens of thousands of public domain images. The impact of the project has been monumental.
Playing with museums - game designs to improve museum collections
Crowdsourcing data through games is an attractive proposition for museums looking to maximise use of their collections online without the requirement to commit intensive curatorial resources to enhancing catalogue records. This paper investigates the optimum game designs to encourage participation and the generation of useful data.
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How to Evaluate Online Success – New action research with 24 institutions
How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector – museums, archives, galleries, arts organisations, libraries, publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards.