All Some of you may be interested in reading a rather long post I have made on our digital media and museum's blog Fresh + New at the Powerhouse Museum about the first six weeks of our OPAC2.0 online project which incroporates a lot of web2.0 and folksonomy ideas since going live.
The OPAC2.0 project is a collection database that exposes 62,000 objects from the museum's collection and it has been extremely popular and successful for us. There are a number of interesting trends that have emerged and I explain some of the ways in which OPAC 2.0 works which may be useful to how other museums and institutions explore new ways of exposing their collections on the web. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2006/08/10/initial-impacts-of-opac20-on-powerhouse-museum-online-visitation/ If you have any questions/comments either email me or post the questions in the blog comments. Cheers Sebastian Chan Manager, Web Services Powerhouse Museum street - 500 Harris St Ultimo, NSW Australia postal - PO Box K346, Haymarket, NSW 1238 tel - 61 2 9217 0109 fax - 61 2 9217 0689 e - sebc at phm.gov.au w - www.powerhousemuseum.com =========================Important Notice===================================== This email and attachments are for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential or legally privileged information or material that is copyright of Powerhouse Museum or a third party. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. Any views expressed in this message and attachments are those of the individual sender and the Powerhouse Museum accepts no liability for the content of this message. Whilst every care has been taken, the Powerhouse Museum cannot guarantee that the integrity of this email has been maintained nor that the email is free of errors or viruses. The Powerhouse Museum advises all organisations and individuals to undertake their own virus scanning and security measures. ==============================================================================
