Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Knowledge in Museums: Embracing the Schools

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Involving Users in the Co-Construction of

Digital Knowledge in Museums

Embracing the Schools

Scott Sayre

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Beginnings

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Beginnings

• ArtsConnectEd• Learning@Whitney• ArtNC• ArtStor• Virtual Museum of Canada• MFA Educators Online• SFMOMA ArtThink

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Then,A decade later,Another opportunity…

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Decade Later - Rethinking

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Decade Later - Collecting & Reviewing

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Decade Later - Evaluating & Testing

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Decade Later - Analyzing

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Decade Later - Re-testing

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

And Eventually…

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

So what did we learn?

Marty, P., Sayre S. and Fantoni, P. (2010), Personal Digital Collections: Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Cultural Heritage, Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage.

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Multiple Audiences and Applications

Personal digital collection tools should be designed with a wide range for audiences and applications in mind.

• Teachers• Students• Home schoolers• Parents• Museum Educators• Docents• Curators

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Multimedia

Users want to be able to access, collect, organize and utilize all forms of media within their collections.

• Museum produced media (audio, video, text and presentations)

• External sources such as YouTube and SlideShare

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Personal Media Integration

Users need to be able to utilize their own media assets within their personal digital collections.

• Museum collection are too constrained• Downloaded museum media breaks its

institutional connection• Embedding and/or linking• Flickr, Picasa, YouTube and Vimeo provide

good options

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Serendipity and Personal Relationships

Users desire options beyond simple search and browse

• Tools for Randomization - “I’m feeling lucky”• Faceted browsing• Community tagging and commenting

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Share, Copy, and Modify

Users want to be able to share and reuse the work of others

• Ability to share, copy, modify and republish• Image sets, lesson plan and presentations• Creative Commons share and share-alike license

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Social Tools

Users desire the integration of social media tools • Publishing• Sharing via Twitter, Facebook, etc.• Emailing• Commenting• Rating• Tagging

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Multiple Forms of Output

Different audiences and applications require a range of views and outputs of collected resources.

• Light tables and lists• Zooms (including saved details)• Full-screen image• Image with all information• Image with no information• Full screen presentation view• Book format• Worksheets and Notes• iPad compatible

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Physical Connections

Users desire up-to-date location information• On view, gallery location• Mapping• Trip planning

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Sustainability

Users want to be able to rely on access to their collections

• Migration• Export

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

Inter-Institutional/Resource Interoperability

Most users do not understand or care about the institutional boundaries between collections.

• Desired integration of museum collections• Technical interfaces such as Really Simple

Syndication “RSS”, Application Programming Interfaces “API” and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting “AI-PMH” can overcome this barriers

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

A Quick Look at Usage

Data as of October 1, 2010 (launched May 1, 2009)• Registered users 4,912• Monthly visits 60,000 average• Art Collector Sets created = 7,512 • Art Collector Set published = 322 • Items rated 224• Items commented on = 258• Items tagged 5000• Tags added 32,630• Tags add with incentive 25,000• Tags added post incentive 5,630

Scott Sayre, Sandbox StudiosMCN 2010, Austin, Texas

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