Angela, Pacific Asia Museum's digital initiatives originally came out of the Collections department mainly due the Getty's Electronic Cataloguing Initiative. In that time, the Curatorial, Education, and Marketing departments were heavily involved in developing various content for the web. The museum also had two great outside consultants: a web designer and a web/educational content developer. Over the years, the Collections department produced an online catalogue of its holdings and three web-based education modules. Developing the modules involved the Curatorial, Collections, and Education departments in order to better understand the museum's overall purpose for creating these tools. The museum has no IT department, nor an on-site web master. Instead, the museum chose to continue using the independent web designer and web producer largely because of the positive feedback the museum has received regarding its web site. The museum has recently shifted gears and has moved some things around. Collections online will continue being the responsibility of the Collections department and the education modules have now become the responsibility of the Education department. I hope this is helpful.
Best of luck, Julian Bermudez - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Julian Bermudez Digital Imaging Manager Margaret Herrick Library Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 333 S. La Cienega Boulevard Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (310) 247-3036 ext. 243 www.oscars.org >>> [email protected] 01/27/06 7:36 AM >>> Would anyone on the list be willing to share information regarding where your Digital Projects/Digital Initiatives areas fit within your organizational structure? We are trying to determine if content-producing areas (sometimes called Digital Projects/Initiatives, Online Access, etc.) are typically housed within the IT department, collection/curatorial department, or elsewhere. Are there any institutions that have content-based web departments outside of IT? Your help is greatly appreciated! Angela O'Neal Digital Projects Manager Ohio Historical Society 1982 Velma Ave. Columbus, OH 43211 (614) 297-2576 View our collections online: African American Experience in Ohio (dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/) Ohio Memory (www.ohiomemory.org) Ohio Pix (www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix) Remarkable Ohio (www.remarkableohio.org War Gardens in Ohio (www.ohiohistory.org/garden) --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
