I love the idea of promoting curation as a hobby but as Tony and Mike have
already suggested while it may seem obvious that there is user demand for
'my collection' type functions, what is the reality?
Not to open up old sores but look at how Creative Spaces ended up--I
believe there was some kind of evaluating report on this. Does Bridget M
know?
And what do you want your result to be? Self-made learning resources? More
people through the door to see the real thing? Good PR by proxy hoping they
will share their collections with their friends? Giving the users the
opportunity to have their curated content featured in some way by you?
If you are going down this route and aiming it at non-industry people be
very clear what you want the outcome to be.
The only time I have found such functions useful is on sites which contain
a huge amount of collections data (national trust, BM, VAM, less so but
growing Europeana, for example) that I want to collate for
research/exhibition work/learning resources, and even then I am looking for
decent export facilities (e.g. to PDF) rather than have to keep returning
to the site or printing out web pages (yuck).
There are still very many projects around that are developing in isolation
and creating entities that were in existence 7-10 years ago and not
learning from mistakes, ignoring the realities of use and changing desires
of users, or in the context on how third-party tools available could better
serve their purposes.
Jess - you were right to ask the question!
Tehmina
On 4 July 2014 10:47, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2014, at 10:38, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > This page suggests that the Google Art Project has 30,000 user galleries
> >
> http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/user-galleries?projectId=art-project
> > which may sound impressive until you consider Google's huge marketing and
> > SEO reach, and the fact that so many users would already have some sort
> of
> > Google account so the sign-up/login barrier is minimised.
>
> and that many appear to have been created by people engaged in the
> heritage ‘industry’ as opposed to everyday folk with a need to curate as a
> hobby…
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