Terry,
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I'm currently working on a project with a consortium of national
museums and one of the purposes of the project is to explore the
potential of user generated content on partner websites. The need to
ensure correct procedures and policies for the use and control of this
content has become very obvious.
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The Science Museum has been running a system to collect visitor comments
and display them since 2000. All comments are pre-moderated and moderators
work to a set of guidelines, but unfortunately I don't have a copy of
guidelines. I'm not entirely sure
who's the best person to contact regarding this but you might want to
try Emma Hedderwick.
I did find this set of guidelines on the BBC "Have your say" news forums
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4176520.stm
And there are also these for the BBC "DNA" community sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/HouseRules
When you do come up with your policy document it would be great if you could
put it up the web somewhere - this UGC thing isn't going to go away. If your
institution makes this difficult, I'm happy to put it up on mine.
All the best
Joe
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