part one : design hub and ‘opac 2.0’ web 2.0 enabled collection searching at powerhouse museum sebastian chan manager, web services powerhouse museum august 2006

june 2006

opac 2.0 launches

~70% of active collection online

extensive user tracking and realtime analysis

built entirely in-house

integrates with kEmu’s Emu collection management system

but much faster for web

no double handling

rights handled in Emu

‘amazon-like’ recommendations

object and subject thesaurus links for education users

plus user tagging (folksonomies)

extensive google integration

opensearch enabled

~25,000 object records viewed daily

13,000 successful searches daily

~6,000 tag cloud searches daily

80% of all available objects visited at least once

each user views on average 5 objects per visit

over 1,500 user tags added since mid June

tripling of public collection enquiries

public is helping correct old records

design hub launched august

part of 3 year ARC project with UWS and UTS

new audience- specific front end

for same collection

aim to add 30 design collections worldwide by 2008

smart aggregration service

online design magazine (storytelling/context)

deep collection linkages

same ‘did you mean’ search intelligence

same collection different audience one datastore

more statistics & analysis?

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