Trilce, This promises to be a very interesting set of research and a compelling session.
You note that "Research on the sustainability of digital heritage projects has shown that many technology projects fail to deliver the success they were hyped to bring while other projects yield little use." It might be very helpful to this community if you could post a couple citations to this research that you find particularly compelling. Interestingly, you use the term "many" rather than "most" and I will presume that this is because there is no good quantitative data in this realm? You may also want to consider in your data collection, analysis and findings the process and key players by which projects were initiated and defined and any self identified constraints, impediments, or competing interests -- external or internal -- that helped foment the projects' ultimate failure or assure success. It may also be worth considering projects whose success might be measured indirectly, or whose rewards have more subtle qualitative characteristics than can generally be measured through more traditional empirical means. Many thanks for your consideration and I look forward to attending the session. Len Steinbach. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Trilce Navarrete < trilce.navarrete at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > MCN's Metrics and Evaluation's SIG (Special Interest Group) is extremely > interested in the practice of evaluating digital activities. Each fall, the > change-agents of the digital transformation in the cultural sector come > together at MCN's Annual Conference to showcase and share many of the most > innovative digital technology-driven projects and to get inspired by > visions of yet untapped possibilities to further advance the mission of the > institutions in the cultural sector. And while the Annual Conference is > predominantly innovation driven, we find that not enough attention has yet > been given to evaluation. > > Research on the sustainability of digital heritage projects has shown that > many technology projects fail to deliver the success they were hyped to > bring while other projects yield little use. So the Metrics and > Evaluation's SIG would like to explore the following question: What is the > recipe for success? And is there a common understanding among cultural > technologists as to what success is? > > Successful long-term projects tend to have clear goals, often backed by > digital applications that support such goals (and not the other way > around). In our industry, success seems to be predominantly goal-driven. > Clarity of objectives (as measurable steps to reach a goal) together with > in the output facilitate the formulation of strong value propositions. Key > in the process is long-term documentation of activities. But what are the > best metrics? > > With you help and support, we hope to start identifying what cultural > institutions typically measure to evaluate digital activities. We will > present the preliminary findings from this research at a panel during > MCN2014. We will show 1) what cultural institutions find important enough > to document, 2) what metrics are being used, and 3) what is being > evaluated. > > To participate, simply email your contributions to data at mcn.edu by October > 1, 2014. > > We are looking to collect the following data: > > > - Data that your cultural institution collects on a regular basis. > Ideally, you will send a data set (any format) including several > months (or > years). Whatever you have and want to share. > - Reports that your cultural institution produces to explain the data > (for some it may just be the print out of the data set). > - List of projects / activities that are evaluated with the data set, > or what does your cultural institution do with the data? > > Data will be presented in aggregated format so names of individuals and > institutions will be concealed. One institution will be selected to > highlight its approach to present at the ME-SIG panel. > > Be part of the MCN community and contribute to building best practice on > the most important part of the digitization process: improving access to > collections! > > For questions, contact Trilce Navarrete chair of ME-SIG at data at mcn.edu. > > > > -- > :..::...::..::...::..: > Trilce Navarrete > > PhD researcher and lecturer University of Amsterdam -Digital Heritage. > Masters in Cultural Economics -Digital Museum Collections. Erasmus > University Rotterdam. > Masters in Arts Administration -Museum Studies. University of Oregon. > m: +31 (0)6 244 84998 > e: trilce.navarrete at gmail.com > a: Turfdraagsterpad 9 (room 1.03) NL 1012XT Amsterdam > s: trilcen | t: trilce.navarrete | w: > http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/t.navarretehernandez/ > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
