Ann-- Paul Marty at FSU had a little data some years back that suggested that users rarely referred back to their galleries once they had created them (unless they were part of a school project). Perhaps the power of creating was more interesting to users than the referring back. For some designers at the time, the impact was to move the creation of a log-in to the end of the process, so as to reduce the trouble visitors had to go through in commencing a collection. --Kate
Kate Haley Goldman Director of Learning Research and Evaluation National Center for Interactive Learning HaleyGoldman at ncil.spacescience.org Message: 3 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:54:21 -0500 From: "Proctor, Nancy" <ProctorN at si.edu<mailto:[email protected]>> It's a good and timely question, especially since the launch of the Google Art Project. I'd be interested to hear about use of collecting tools on museum websites, any data museums might have, and see if there's a way of comparing those metrics against use of the collection feature in GAP where people can collect across collections, not just from one museum. Maybe a topic for a panel at MCN 2011? There's some discussion of this on the Curator Journal site right now: http://www.curatorjournal.org/archives/489 Nancy Ann: For those of you with online databases that allow for users to create their own galleries or selections of images, could you give a sense of how this option is functioning? Do you have many users who return to create and modify their selections, or are most one-time visitors? I know this can be an especially useful option--especially in a university setting--but am wondering how popular a function it is elsewhere. Thank you, Ann S. -- Ann Sinfield, Registrar -------------------- --
