part one : design hub and ‘opac 2.0’ web 2.0 enabled collection searching at powerhouse museum...
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part one : design hub and ‘opac 2.0’web 2.0 enabled collection searching at powerhouse museum
sebastian chanmanager, web servicespowerhouse museumaugust 2006
june 2006
opac 2.0 launches
~70% of active collection online
extensive user tracking and realtime
analysis
built entirely in-house
integrates with kEmu’s Emu
collection management system
but much faster for web
no double handling
rights handled in Emu
‘amazon-like’ recommendations
object and subject thesaurus links for education users
plus user tagging(folksonomies)
extensive google integration
opensearch enabled
~25,000 object records viewed daily
13,000 successful searches daily
~6,000 tag cloud searches daily
80% of all available objects visited at
least once
each user views on average 5 objects per
visit
over 1,500 user tags added since mid
June
tripling of public collection enquiries
public is helping correct old records
design hub launched august
part of 3 year ARC project with UWS
and UTS
new audience-specific front end
for same collection
aim to add 30 design collections worldwide
by 2008
smart aggregration service
online design magazine
(storytelling/context)
deep collection linkages
same ‘did you mean’search intelligence
same collectiondifferent audience
one datastore
more statistics & analysis?
fresh+new museums & digital media blog
www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog
