[MCN-L] Institutional website usage v. digital collections site usage?

2013-01-08 Thread Ellice Engdahl 
Hi all,

 

I'm curious if anyone tracks or has statistics they'd be willing to
share about how often your institutional website gets visited vs. the
site/page for your digital collections.  I'm not so much interested in
exact numbers as the ratio-e.g. your site overall gets five visits for
every one visit your digital collections gets.  As a follow-up, does
anyone have goals/thoughts on what that ratio should ideally be, or are
you happy wherever it currently falls? 

 

Many thanks!

 

 

Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager

The Henry Ford

20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI  48124

(o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org

[MCN-L] Institutional website usage v. digital collections site usage?

2013-01-08 Thread Jeremy Ottevanger 
Hi Ellice,

Our collections are part of the institutional website and integrated into 
various bits of content, but a little over 40% of all website visitors view the 
details page of at least one item. 25% actually land on one. I don't know what 
experience other museums have had, but as far as I can tell having the 
collections integrated into our main site has worked better than when they were 
hived off in their own site.

As for whether we're happy, well, yes and no. A pretty good proportion of users 
view these pages, but then again our collections comprise a huge number of 
pages and should serve the needs of a large number of people. The fact that 
last month people landed on about 42000 different item pages suggests that 
we're probably reaching people with some very niche needs, which is good. But I 
suspect that we're still only getting a tiny percentage of all those people 
with such niche interests so I can't be that satisfied.

Cheers, Jeremy


Jeremy Ottevanger
Technical Web Manager
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ


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Subject: [MCN-L] Institutional website usage v. digital collections site usage?

Hi all,

 

I'm curious if anyone tracks or has statistics they'd be willing to share about 
how often your institutional website gets visited vs. the site/page for your 
digital collections.  I'm not so much interested in exact numbers as the 
ratio-e.g. your site overall gets five visits for every one visit your digital 
collections gets.  As a follow-up, does anyone have goals/thoughts on what that 
ratio should ideally be, or are you happy wherever it currently falls? 

 

Many thanks!

 

 

Ellice Engdahl, Digital Collections Initiative Manager

The Henry Ford

20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI  48124

(o) 313.982.6005 | (e) ElliceE at thehenryford.org

 

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[MCN-L] Please help improve DCE

2013-01-08 Thread Heather Bowden 
[Apologies for cross-posting]

Hello,

I'm working on some improvements to the Digital Curation Exchange (DCE) website 
[http://digitalcurationexchange.org/] and would like your input on what you 
like and what you think needs improvement on the site. 

If you have a DCE account or have ever used or viewed content on the site, 
please take about 5 minutes and follow the Survey Monkey link below to take a 
quick user survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DCEinput

Thanks so much,

Heather Bowden
DCE Creator and Admin
PhD Student
School of Information  Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill
hbowden at email.unc.edu OR heather at longtermdata.com