day 2, workshop 6, anra kennedy
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User communities:Website visitorsData consumers4385 venues
Who are our DDE contributors?
• Approx 50% of 4300+ active• National• Regional• Local/small • Collective: Local authority, National Trust• Virtual
User profiles:
1. Volunteer in a very small museum. Limited web access. Enthusiast.
2. Press/marketing person in small, busy team within institution.
3. Press/marketing person in larger team working on behalf of a group.
Classification…. controlled vocabularies…
TypeDate (events calendar)Regions (location)
Subjects: Art, History, Science, Teaching & LearningRolesTime (in history)National Curriculum
Mixed messages…
• Free our data• Join up our data• Data must be robust• Data must be up to
date• Public data should
be free (?!)
• I don’t have time• It’s not my job• Why your system?• What’s the point?• What’s my password
again?• It’s broken…• Thank you!
Be available, responsive and human…
Lessons learned:
More lessons learned:
Be prepared to repeat yourself, endlesslyJustify participationDisclaim AND take responsibilityNo interface or data set is perfectThink community – yours and others‘Humanise’ your language and interface
The future for the Culture24 data inputters?
