Hello-- I'd be curious to hear from museums with online collections about what their user stats look like.
By online collections, I mean access primarily to images and data of objects in the museum collection as a whole, rather than more narrowly focussed online exhibitions of objects plus interpretation, though the latter is of interest, too. How do the stats compare to hits on special exhibitions/programs/special features pages? Has anybody done an evaluation project that looks at how people use online collections? Are your visitors primarily researchers (students, grad students, scholars) or are members of the general public using online collections as well. Finding them useful? Thanks for responses and also for pointers to recent studies, if there are any out there. Deborah Deborah Wythe Brooklyn Museum Head, Digital Collections and Services 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 tel: 718 501 6311 fax: 718 501 6125 email: deborahwythe at hotmail.com
