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Online Cenotaph, Michaela O'Donovan
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Author: Presenter Notes
MCH logo – and Online Cenotaph Logo - Dave
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Author: Presenter Notes Subject: Presentation Notes Date: 23/09/2024 1:19:22 pm
MOD
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Old site – 1996 - The credible core of information came primarily from the original Cenotaph database. A biographical database, whose content had been gathered over 17 years prior to the redevelopment, Cenotaph had pulled together information relating to individual service people from a huge range of sources such as embarkation, military service and other government records, newspapers and families.
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Con: Potential to alienate existing users
Pro: instantaneous both in adding and reporting
Democratisation of information - a level playing field – community engagement
Reach more people (future museum)
Retain existing #withinreason
Attract more diverse - campaign
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Scrolling
Funding: consistent design & extension of information
Simplify - to allow community contribution
Cons: White space, rebranding, change management
Auckland Museum’s aspiration was to develop the service records in Cenotaph into a modern, attractive resource, that is a recognised collective authority on the experience of New Zealanders at war, and provide this resource with functionality to allow the public to add to, augment and expand the records and overall content.
To deliver this, our two aims were to:
Present a credible core of information in each record in a form that encouraged and excited both researchers and the general public to add content. That is, to provide a starting point that people saw had sufficient merit, substance and longevity, to warrant them spending their time adding content Make available tools that were easy to use and allow those engaged users to add content.
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Overall response has been really positive but there have been about 40 or so brickbats in amongst the bouquets.
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Soft launch – building to ANZAC day Has the public taken it seriously? – the short answer is yes
50 images added on average in the Cenotaph Database. It would have taken 10 years for us give or take.
A contributor has added over 3,000 pieces of information. ‘I must be driving you nuts’
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Soft launch – building to ANZAC day Has the public taken it seriously? – the short answer is yes
50 images added on average in the Cenotaph Database. It would have taken 10 years for us give or take.
A contributor has added over 3,000 pieces of information. ‘I must be driving you nuts’
Apparent that people have been willing to share their information/content without having to give their items away
Presenting as many views of the information as come to light is a liberating view
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Soft launch – building to ANZAC day Has the public taken it seriously? – the short answer is yes
50 images added on average in the Cenotaph Database. It would have taken 10 years for us give or take.
A contributor has added over 3,000 pieces of information. ‘I must be driving you nuts’
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Soft launch – building to ANZAC day Has the public taken it seriously? – the short answer is yes
50 images added on average in the Cenotaph Database. It would have taken 10 years for us give or take.
A contributor has added over 3,000 pieces of information. ‘I must be driving you nuts’
Allowing us to contemplate larger scale digitisation and data projects – WWII, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam
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For all the geeks.
Gatekeepers - myths (compromising existing data)
Enriching, empowering, decentralising (source data)
Everything is automatically published
Kentico Collection management system sits above source data.
Proportion of spam is low so doesn't affect overall success of site
Melds personal and official memory
Allows people to contact each other
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Moderation – real time and instant gratification
Rights and Permissions – made people aware of it
Verification – we only verify the material we put into the source data. Organic process when we add information from the public source.
Constraints – museum stable
Mobile
SPAM – in regards to Moderation
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VP / MOD
Images and transcribed diaries
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Story – People wanting to honour their own family member. And people interact with OC in different ways. Some people didn’t want to lay to poppy or have photo taken with the record. There is no right or wrong way of using the site or our services.
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VP / MOD
Other organisations adding images / content
Museum adding notes asking for physical items to add to their own collection.
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VP / MOD
People having conversation with each other without us being intermediary
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People trying to reunite families with precious documents
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C49542
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Use appears to span Māori and Pakeha UGC http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C6958
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For the Ki Mua slide - any image you wish to choose from Tudor Collins – a lovely one of a black serviceman below, and some packaged searches.
We have an enormous new visual resource in Collections Online – the Tudor Collins photographs of WW2 US military personnel in New Zealand, many of them in Warkworth.
Has images of catch – hunting including pukeko; fishing – huge snapper etc etc ….
