The significant effort expended upon putting content online, modifying
it to meet different needs, and keeping it current, is mostly done in
the name of some - often fuzzily defined - user community. However,
we're not always very good at clearly identifying those communities,
asking them what they want before we build it, or going back to them
afterwards to see what they think.
Following their meeting
(http://www.culturalcontentforum.org/meetings/italy-2003/) in Pistoia,
Italy, the Cultural Content Forum commissioned Alice Grant Consulting
to look at existing work on evaluating audiences for cultural content.
Analysis is based upon responses to a call, sent to this and other
lists earlier this year. The result of that analysis is now available
for download from the CCF site, and makes for interesting reading
(http://www.culturalcontentforum.org/publications/). We are working
with one of the CCF's partners at present to make the actual database
of results available as well, and to ensure that it can be kept up to
date. More information on this will be posted in due course.
It would appear that there is still much to do!
-- dr. paul miller --------------------------- [log in to unmask] --
project manager, portal project www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk/
interoperability focus, ukoln www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/
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