Eternal Cities?

Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia NetworkNational Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009

Collections Australia Network

...an eternal city?...

Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/


CAN is a not for profit entity CAN is funded in 3 year cycles through a contract tendering process

Funded by states and territories contributionAdministered by a federal entity: DEWHA, the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the ArtsGoverned by a ministerial entity: CMC, the Cultural Ministers' Council

CAN is currently under review by DEWHA/CMCCAN was previously AMOL

Vital statistics






...Issues...



being there is the start living there is the goal

skill base and $sustainability continuityinterest+investmentculture changepractice changeshifting expectationssocio+economic+political climate





Colosseum, Rome, Italyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickian/3427495675/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/




Trajan's Forum, Rome, Italyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

..iterations.....of an eternal city?...





untouched, new lighting, reinvention











being there is the start - living there is the goal





dESIGN and vALUE...an eternal city?...





investigating and articulating the vision with each iteration and transformation







investigating and articulating the vision with each iteration and transformation

design and the elastic mind

Value for 90%

value and the stakeholders



..one of design's fundamental roles: the translation of scientific and technological revolutions into

approachable objects that change people's lives and, as a consequence, the world. Design is a bridge between

the abstraction of research and the tangible requirements of real life.

Foreword, Glenn Lowry, Director, MOMA, Design and the Elastic Mind, 2008.

Website changes: 1999 – 2009


AMOL changes: 1999 – 2005


interface design : aesthetic : practice+collecting


audience+focus : information gateway : sector resource


focus : museum collections : museum education


sector identity : information value : educational value


CAN changes: 2005 – 2009


interface design : aesthetic : find+search


audience+focus: information retrieval : sector space


focus: collecting organisations + community content


identity shift: wide community value : significance



...a community of practice...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwillms/483853336 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwillms/483853336


RESOuRCESCAN Slideshare accountCAN YouTube channelCAN Outreach blog

APPRoACHSocial spaces to load community and practice related contentContent then threaded back into the website Opportunity to expand community contribution and direction

ATTRiBUTESOpenness and flexibility

IMPaCTObserve community responses and use patternsEvaluate and rework or change

Social media tools


Depends where you look..Website overall

Assessing community needs

Patterns of visitation over time - what does that say? Accountability!


Utility value – what is useful to your audience & why?


4 minute visit time

selected page

Depends where you look.. Sector information

1. Sector information per se2. Guide to assessing collection significance3. Industry standards for museums and galleries4. Guide on collection care5. Guide to developing a disaster preparedness plan

Top 5 sector resources


Significance value - articulating this value in a meaningful way + top page in sector resources





What is important about what is being delivered and the type of exchange and or engagement occurring and why?

by tracing significance+impact




How do you investigate and articulate value of being online to stakeholders to enable you to live online?

by articulating+demonstrating value

How do collecting organisations articulate the value of their work?

Frank Howarth, Australian Museum, 350,000 visitors onsite, 21 million visitors online for 4 minutes.

Future Tense interview: "our reach to people is...in terms of contact hours... however you measure it... is vastly higher in the virtual world... than in the real world... there is a good duality... they feed off each other"

Articulating value


http://search.abc.net.au/search/search.cgi?num_ranks=20&collection=rn&query=museum&scope=rn/futuretense/stories&t=Future+Tense&p=futuretense&a=&scope=rn/futuretense/stories

...x + y therefore z³...



Social measurement toolsassess needestimate resourcestrace significanceweight impactalign with communitymaintain relevancearticulate valuegain buy-in

Social Return on Investment Guide: http://content.yudu.com/A17snh/SROI1/Network: http://www.sroi-uk.org/

http://content.yudu.com/A17snh/SROI1/

http://www.sroi-uk.org/

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Eternal Cities?