The most popular object in our online collection database is still a dress worn by Delta Goodrem. I’ve previously written about how the popularity of this dress was driven in part by coverage on a number of Delta Goodrem fan forums. But this neglects the criticality of search. Google has always driven traffic to this [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Examining Delta Goodrem’s dress again / more on search
June 14th, 2008 · → 2 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
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OPAC2.0 – New search result interface
April 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off
Today we launched our new-look search results page for our collection database. Finally we have been able to implement many of the minor UI changes that have been sitting in a long list of ‘fixes’ – fixes that have become more and more critical as we have added new types of search. When a search [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Top search phrases and statistics for 2007
April 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off
Here’s some of the latest figures from our collection database for the calendar year 2007. Because our search tables run on a rolling 3 month basis we have had to wait until April to generate the results for 2007. In 2007 there were 15,121,291 objects viewed in our collection database (including views on dHub and [...]
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OPAC2.0 – new context features – collections, ‘parts’, and narratives
January 7th, 2008 · → 6 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
As promised some of the new features of our collection database have started to go live. We have been spending a lot of time working through a range of legacy issues to do with how collection data is structured in our collection management system and how this affects the options for its more flexible use [...]
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Brantley on digital collections and the location-awareness OPAC
October 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
Peter Brantley over at O’Reilly has put together a short post on his vision of the future of collections – specifically those held by university libraries – which should have resonance with those in collecting museums.
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OPAC2.0 – latest tag statistics and trends for simple comparison with Steve project
October 15th, 2007 · → 1 Single-Serving Friend
Another paper from the Steve researchers has gone online and is generating interesting discussions. It elaborates on the content of an earlier summary podcast. To be presented at ICHIM07 the paper describes some of the emerging patterns in tagging behaviour in the different interface trials.
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OPAC2.0 – Latest features update
August 12th, 2007 · Comments Off
We’ve added a whole range of new features to our OPAC that we think further enhance its usability. Tooltips – Each ‘feature’ on the search results and object view pages now has an explanatory tooltip. Given the OPAC has become quite complex and there is a lot going on on the screen now, we felt [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Go bulk taggers!
July 18th, 2007 · Comments Off
Thank you to everyone who has been tagging the collection with our bulk tagging mini-application. Since announcing it 2 weeks ago we’ve had 515 new tags added to previously untagged objects. That’s a lot. If you are one of the many who have added some tags – thank you. If you haven’t tried it yet, [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Collection bulk tagging application launched
July 4th, 2007 · → 4 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
Today we finished our long awaited ‘bulk tagging’ application. I’d encourage you to give it a go and send us some feedback. We are particularly interested in museum professionals and amateur collecting organisations adding tags in volume to our collection. The application currently targets the user tagging of objects in our collection that have not [...]
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