Sheila
While I have been managing the Guernsey Museum website (as a sideline to the 'normal' job and with no allocated budget) I have taken the view that most online material on our site has a semi-permanent reference value - even if it's perhaps mostly for internal staff benefit! With this in mind I set up a stylesheet which watermarks archive pages prominently, so that people were not likely to get confused between upcoming and past events. Of course the current site is very primitive by modern standards (what can you expect with no investment?) but it has accumulated a lot of material over the years much of which will disappear very shortly, as we are being absorbed into a central content managed corporate presence for the States of Guernsey as a whole. It does concern me that a number of applications developed for the old site are incompatible with the new and will therefore go completely. We will not be allowed to continue with our independently hosted site and in any case iFrames are not permitted in the new one! I think it will be an uphill struggle to convince the marketing-led progenitors of the new site that archiving old museum website content is a useful thing to do! In the meantime any content we do want to carry forward from the old site will have to be manually transferred... Not so happy days - but perhaps there are some useful lessons in there somewhere.
PS - any Guernsey connections? The Carey family were very prominent here...
Alan Howell
Senior Curator
Guernsey Museums & Galleries
DDI +44 (0) 1481 709736
www.museums.gov.gg
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheila Carey
Sent: 16 March 2012 17:04
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Subject: More on archiving online content
Hi Tracy,
Thank you for the reply. It is interesting to see how institutions handle
archived material and its access. I also have a broader question than
'archiving exhibits'; I think I need to reword my original inquiry. I'm
also interested in how museums are handling the lifecycle of any online
material. If, for example, a museum has a lot of online educational
material, how do they determine what they keep 'active' on the site, or
how do they decide what to place in an archive or remove entirely.
Does anyone have any criteria for those situations?
Thanks again,
Sheila
Sheila Carey
Analyste des publics et des programmes | Audience and Program Analyst
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:02:39 +0000
From: Tracy Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Criteria for Assessing Virtual Exhibitions
Hi Sheila,
I have a monthly online exhibition Archive of the
Month<http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/archive-month/index.html
>and
we archive each edition at the bottom of the page. I forsee us doing
this indefinitely. I routinely get enquiries based on earlier editions.
Best wishes
Tracy
Tracy Wilkinson
Assistant Archivist
King's College, Cambridge
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