Strength in Numbers Complementary Approaches to

Collaborative Museum Websites Sandra Fauconnier, Project Lead, ARTtube

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

Emily Lytle-Painter, Education Technologist J. Paul Getty Museum

Museums and online collaboration

• User-focused • Online video - education and storytelling

• Open data and open source software

Why collaborate? • Share financial burden

• Increase access to collection • Build new community

• Shared services

ArtBabble: A Brief History

ArtBabble artbabble.org

ARTtube: A Brief History

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen arttube.boijmans.nl

www.arttube.nl

Partnership and Management

Contract Process Open content policy

Ongoing site management

ArtBabble: Partner-driven

Quality guidelines uniqueness / expertise / depth / broader relevance /

professionalism in production / experiment / diversity

ARTtube: Editorial Guidelines

Interface and Structure

Growth to New Audiences

Proliferation of Online Educational Video

ArtBabble: Partner Control • New partner management of publishing

• Expansion of 'For Educators' • Problems with single partner management

in lieu of leadership changes

Media Partnerships www.kunstbeeld.nl

ARTtube On Stage photos CC-BY-SA Sebastiaan ter Burg

ARTtube: Slow Growth Model • Autonomy by 2015

• Infrastructural support by strong institutional partnerships to share hosting costs

• Membership model for museum partners • Services: filmmakers, archiving, expertise

Conclusions • Necessity of commitment

• Benefits of shared structure and increased access

• Expanded collaboration - beyond the web

Questions? Comments? Thank you!

Sandra Fauconnier @sanseveria

fauconnier@boijmans.nl

Emily Lytle-Painter @MuseumofEmily

elytlepainter@getty.edu