Hi all:
I have a bit of a philosophical question. I'm in the process of migrating our
institutional website and I'm noticing that a lot of content areas,
particularly those that are best described as online exhibitions, have a credit
line within the description: "Exhibition is a project conceived by so-and-so at
the Magnes."
It's common practice for a project such as an exhibition to have a credit to
the curator, and having a name to the project increases personal connections
between the public and staff. But I'm finding myself grousing about it for two
reasons: 1) Currently, there is only one person creating such online
exhibitions, resulting in a single person's name being reflected all over the
site which results in 2) only that one person getting any credit for work done
by the institution or at least the public perception that that single person is
the only one who creates content. Personally, I'd feel a bit weird about
attaching my name to every Tweet, uploads to YouTube, the online collections
database, or whatever other project I happen to be working on (though my
projects tend to be more on the meta-scale, instead of curated and forcused
research efforts). We do have names assigned to individual blog entries, but
the blog is pretty egalitarian and we have multiple staff posting to it.
Has anyone else run into this problem and, if so, how have you assigned a
credit to online exhibition descriptions?
Perian
