Hi list members,
In the course of my research I'm investigating the application of user created content in online museum environments. The two key aspects of my research are:
1. Participation career
Do users start with relatively simple steps (baby steps) before they continue to more complicated content formats? e.g. do users provide ratings first, then comments and later full articles?
2. Inter-user relationship
In theory there is a 90/9/1 relationship between nonproductive/productive and highly productive users (if you want to believe Jakob Nielsen...) nevertheless, this relationship doesn't reflect the dependencies and relationships between the different user groups and their contributions.
Lets take the "Re: The speculative aspect of using Web 2 [was: British Postal Museum & Archive Wiki]" discussion on this list as an example: A lot of content had been produced, mainly by a quite small group of people. Nevertheless this fruitful and intense discussion started with a (please correct me if I'm wrong) first time contribution. The question is therefore: Can we find similar patterns in other ucc applications as well?
In order to find answers to the previous questions it would be great to get as much reference material as possible. So if you use user contributions in an online museum environment I would be very glad to get in touch with you and discuss about the evaluation of this data.
Furthermore I'd be glad to hear any anecdotical evidence of positive as well as negative experiences with user contributions.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Lars
University of Brighton
Lars Wieneke
CHIRON Researcher
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