Since 1997 we've run a Best of the Web competition at the Museums and the Web conference. As we begin the run-up for the 2008 competition, i'm wondering what your thoughts are about the usefulness of the BoW.

Is the competition helpful to you? Do you learn something from looking at the results? Are there things about it you would change (like the Categories or the Criteria?)

Let us know what you think! We'll make adjustments to the BoW for 2008 that reflect consensus.

Thanks.

jennifer

I've been pondering ways to assess the impact of Museums and the Web, given that we are approaching the tenth iteration of the event. Much of the benefit of the meeting is 'soft' and difficult to measure. Who met whom? Who's working with whom? Who married whom (well... at least that was publicly declared). How do you establish whether MW has impact? Citation indexes / frequency would be one way. How often is the conference cited in the literature? But that would have to be taken in comparison with other events, or other 'sources'. Sounds like a tedious statistical analysis. Then I stumbled upon the following, in a paper reporting on a survey of digital museum activity: