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‘opac 2.0’ and design hub web 2.0 enabled Emu collections

‘opac 2.0’ and design hub web 2.0 enabled Emu collections. lynne mcnairn emu administrator registration powerhouse museum. sebastian chan manager, web services powerhouse museum sept 2006. 2005. work starts on a permanent design gallery. proposed exhibition designer is based in Italy.

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‘opac 2.0’ and design hub web 2.0 enabled Emu collections

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  1. ‘opac 2.0’ and design hubweb 2.0 enabled Emu collections lynne mcnairn emu administrator registration powerhouse museum • sebastian chan • manager, web services • powerhouse museum • sept 2006

  2. 2005

  3. work starts on a permanent design gallery

  4. proposed exhibition designer is based in Italy

  5. Emu commissioned to build a narratives pilot

  6. collect, order, display objects for designer and curators

  7. exhibition ends up being designed inhouse

  8. web team modifies the narratives pilot

  9. database kiosks for exhibition

  10. kiosks were intended to go public in a modifed form for the web

  11. concern over rights and permissions on some objects

  12. next step for narratives was a public microsite

  13. hedda morrison project

  14. two previous exhibitions of images

  15. curator and intern rewrote and compiled content

  16. new images taken

  17. site took nearly 6 months of curator rechecking before launch

  18. opac 2.0

  19. museum contributed ~50,000 records to AMOL in 2001

  20. never able to be updated since

  21. AMOL replaced by CAN

  22. CAN seeks PHM materials for harvest

  23. why on CAN but not on Museum’s own site?

  24. june 2006

  25. opac 2.0 launches

  26. previously the museum had 150 key objects online plus a few specialist collections

  27. now ~70% of active collection online

  28. extensive user tracking and realtime analysis

  29. built entirely in-house

  30. modular

  31. flexible

  32. able to quickly respond to user needs

  33. greatly reduced future cost of similar development and microsites

  34. ‘amazon-like’ recommendations and serendipitous discovery

  35. object and subject thesaurus links for education users

  36. plus user tagging(folksonomies)

  37. extensive google integration

  38. opensearch enabled

  39. also allows CAN to search without needing to harvest

  40. opac 2.0 is popular

  41. museum website traffic has massively increased

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