part one : design hub and ‘opac 2.0’web 2.0 enabled collection searching at powerhouse museum

sebastian chanmanager, web servicespowerhouse museumaugust 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 collectiondifferent audience

one datastore

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