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"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 organizations, libraries and publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards. The result is a confusing mixture of statistics and reporting that reveals little about genuine user satisfaction."

Web 2.0 für Gedächtnisinstitutionen Mit Hilfe von Positionsbestimmungen und Erfahrungen aus den Bereichen Bibliothek - Museum - Archiv soll in dem Arbeitsgespräch das Spektrum an Web 2.0 Features ausgelotet werden, das für Gedächtnisinstitutionen sinnvoll nutzbar zu machen ist.

"Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web."

photoarchive of the monastry Einsiedeln (CH) with more than 50000 photos from the beginning of photography up to today. registered users can add comments and can help to identify photos

Transmedia Storytelling for the Individual/Job-seeker: What It Might Look Like: Part 2

nur zur inspiration. finde die seite toll. link von @milotesselaar by @GOOD

Sparked by previous discussions, I wonder if anyone is aware of any successful projects/tools that allow users to geotag resources on the web (or to contribute corrections/enhancements to things already tagged)

o one can have a "museum experience" without stepping foot in a museum. Let's just get that out of the way. It doesn't matter how digitally precise your online version of "The Forge of Vulcan" is, tilting your head to draw the light across the raised ridges of paint is not an electronically duplicable experience. That doesn't mean digital art collections don't have great value. After all, art books do. So here are half a dozen great digital art collections you can visit to inspire your own trip, or your own thinking about art, or to remind yourself or to learn a bit for no other reason than digital art is better by far than no art at all. In order to keep from wandering off the path never to be seen again, let's focus on Western painting.

christian henner-fehr's km-blog Bookmarks

Der Museumsmensch Es ist naheliegend, dass es DEN Museumsmensch ebenso wenig gibt wie DEN Deutschen oder DEN Türken. Und da es auch DAS Museum nicht gibt, sondern neun Museumsarten mit gänzlich unterschiedlichen Ausrichtungen und Angeboten (siehe unten), lässt sich der typische Museumsbesucher nur schwerlich charakterisieren. Nichtsdestotrotz haben Soziologen versucht, die regelmäßigen Museumsbesucher näher zu beschreiben.

Vier Partizipationsmodelle für Museen (nach Nina Simon)

On Saturday 29 April 2000 the V&A staged its first Day of Record, a proposed series of events cataloguing applied and decorative arts in relation to the body. Over 1500 tattooed people visited the Museum on that day to have their artworks photographed for inclusion in the V&A digital archive of tattoos. This site is the product of that day.

Die Frage, wieso Weblogs in den Geschichtswissenschaften nicht viel selbstverständlicher genutzt werden, war für uns - neben Erwägungen zu den konkreten Problemen und Herausforderungen - von zentraler Bedeutung. Wir haben und entschieden, den Praktiker/innen das Wort zu geben, um aufgrund von konkreten Erfahrungen eine entsprechende Diskussion zu führen. Die Frage nach der Rolle von Weblogs zwischen Selbstreflexion, Selbstvermarktung und Vernetzung als Beitrag zum wissenschaftlichen Diskurs haben wir im Verlaufe des Nachmittags durchaus benannt und diskutiert.

Salgado untersucht Partizipation von interaktiven Auststellungsstücken. Sie entwirft anhand von 6 Fallbeispielen Paramter zur Entwicklgn und Beurteilung von Partizipation: * Theme (chosen for participation, and the openess with wihich it is presented) * Atmosphere (of the piece) * Input-output modalities * Accessibility * Time: Ties to the actual time of the visit * Community: Ties to the community Konference-Beitrag an der "Museums an the Web"-Konference, 2008 in Motreal

digital brainstorming Podcast mit Yvonne Inden, Projektleiterin Digitalisierung ETH Bibliothek Zürich

"My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: "Daddy's book." She was holding my Kindle electronic reader." Dazu auf ReadWrite: "Virtual worlds like ToonTown and Club Penguin are particularly popular with kids right now. In a recent New York Times article, University of California cultural anthropologist Mizuko Ito claimed that "children who play these games would see less of a distinction between their online friends and real friends." He also said that these types of online virtual worlds make kids "more likely to participate actively in their own entertainment" - in comparison to us oldies who grew up watching TV from the couch." (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kids_on_the_web_virtual_worlds.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&)utm_content=Google+Reader

Here are the 10 worst tech failures of 2009. Twitter Failed to Innovate The Great Firewall of China Drama Continued and Worsened (Golden Shield Project)

"Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage." Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web. The MW2010 Program is composed based on an open Call for Participation. The deadline for most proposals was September 30, 2009. Deadline for Demonstration Proposals: December 31, 2009

Where Do We Go From Here? Continuing with Web 2.0 at the Brooklyn Museum "As we moved forward with Web 2.0 and social media in 2007, we had two objectives in mind while overhauling earlier initiatives and creating new projects for visitors: * Keep it real: We aimed to personalize content as much as possible, since Web 2.0 for the Brooklyn Museum is all about social connections and growing communities. * Deliver content their way: Museum surveys have shown that visitors want to consume more information in shorter visits. Hence, we wanted to allow our audiences to easily receive information from the Museum, and dynamically share it with others. We continued to focus on our community-oriented, visitor-centered mission, and these goals became paramount as we thought about (and adjusted) our early initiatives; they also served as philosophical barometers when we created new projects. "

In this paper we illustrate how Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), combining lightweight information architecture with advanced search paradigms (like faceted search) and interactive visualization strategies, can be used to better support a number of communication goals.