Some time ago – in 2005 – Archives & Museum Informatics launched a survey of museum web activities. We noted then that:
Each financial cycle museum Webmasters struggle
to justify their budget requests. Whenever statistical reports are
circulated someone asks, "How do we compare?" When exploring the
benefits of a new function, Web teams ask themselves "Is it worth the
investment?" Answers to these questions are hard to come by.[see http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/index.html for the full background]
This survey – the results of which are written up at http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/report/mwbenchmarks2005.html – was designed to help fill some of the voids in our knowledge. As a first stab at the problem we realise that it wasn't perfect. And things have changed since 2005!
We've been asked to update the survey for a client-group of museums, and thought we'd use the opportunity to ask for input from the community as well. If we're going to launch it again more broadly, we'd like it to be useful to you ...
So, please, take a look at the questions – available as a PDF from http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/MW-Survey05.pdf – and post your thoughts on revisions or additional questions here.
During the month of July, 2008, you can follow Netwurker Mez as she explores the artistic potential of Twitter. She's New Media Scotalnd's second Twitterer in residence.
Follow Netwurker Mez's tweets at http://www.twitter.com/mediascot
Anyone else doing fun twitter things?
/jt
The PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA were announced yesterday, and steve.museum received an honorary mention in the Digital Communities category.
David and i are delighted to announce that Nick Gamble has joined Archives & Museum Informatics as Conference Manager.
A recent graduate of the University of Toronto's Museum Studies program, you might remember Nick as a volunteer at MW2008 in Montreal.
As well as working on future Museums and the Web conferences, Nick will be helping out with the manaement of our 1275+ member on-line community at http://conference.archimuse.com, adding to the on-line bibliography of cultural heritage informatics sources, and putting more of our past publications on-line.
steve.museum has released enhancements to the steve tagger. you can now:
Wrestling the Octopus: Using Pageroute and Nodereference to Manage Complex Node Relationships
http://2008.drupalcamptoronto.org/content/ wrestling-octopus-using-pageroute-and-nodereference-manage-complex-node-relationships
enables complex page / function structure e.g. within each campaign: events > visits > shifts
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