Can I second Angela's suggestion of writing to David and Jennifer
about all this?
It would be great if you could also copy any suggestions, thoughts,
ideas to me too to pass to the other judges. I think that although
far from perfect, the Best of the Web idea can be made into a
useful vehicle for the international museum community to thrash
out ideas about criteria of evaluating web sites, arguing what
makes a good museum web site, desirable characteristics and
features, etc. Now that this has happened twice and is becoming a
recurring event, I am sure that contributing our constructive
criticism is bound to make the whole procedure work better.
Maria
Date sent: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:19:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Forget the Oscars.....
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> <Note from the list owner: Angela Spinazze sent the following message to
> the MCG list, but it failed to get through for some reason, so I am
> re-posting it here....>
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> Angela says:
> I second Sandy's remarks ...
>
> >One of the issues that the Judging panel raised was that
> >there had to be a clearer definition of what they were judging in each
> of
> >the categories, they were not allowed to have any dialogue with those
> sites
> >nominated and found it difficult to decide on things other than over
> all
> >design i.e. was the design and content appropriate to its intended
> audience
> >?, who were the intended audience?
>
> While Cyberatlas is by no means "perfect", (I happen to like some
> aspects of it) none of the categories are either. In talking with many
> of the judges before and after the awards ceremony, it was clear to me
> that they were very frustrated by the process and their inability to
> affect change in that process (at least for this year's awards). I urge
> you to send your thoughts to David Bearman and Jennifer Trant. They need
> to hear from as many of us with varying perspectives in order to improve
> the quality of this award. I think the award has not lived up to its
> billing yet -- mind you it's still quite young.
>
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> Angela
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