Interesting thread - lots of food for thought.
I guess there are two extremes of approach - have a very specific user with a proven use case in mind and build something specifically for them, or build/integrate a more generic tool and see what people come up with.
On Europeana we have 'MyEuropeana' where registered users can collect and curate items, at least in the very broadest sense. You can favourite items and tag them, through which you can build your own sets. You can also save searches, which I thought was an interesting feature. One thing it doesn't do as yet, but I'd like to explore, is public sharing.
What people do and how they use it is entirely up to them, but it's all available via read & write API methods which opens up lots of possibilities (http://labs.europeana.eu/api/myeuropeana/).
In practice I have seen one app developer hand-pick content through this, and internally our comms folk use it when they are pulling together content for editorial use.
I delayed replying as I was hoping to get some usage stats, but it turns out it will involve poking around in a database so that will have to wait until next week!
Best, James
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From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Rick Lawrence [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 July 2014 16:47
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Subject: Re: Audiences curating platforms
Hi Tony
Thanks for the response.
On people using web tools we took a 'belt and braces' approach and have included social media sharing as well as the curated themes and users collections. There's also social media sharing on individual objects.
As an organisation it's a case of different approaches for our different audiences, and there is an element of liking to show user engagement. The themes were created to work for us in different contexts so are a tool for staff to use with visitors.
Our bottom line is if it wasn't used we wouldn't do it!
Our research section which we are currently working on is based on a piece of commissioned audience research which isn't publicly available. If I can get permission I'll share it as might shed light on some of the discussion.
Regards
Rick
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