Maren Dougherty, Senior Editor
Balboa Park Online Collaborative @MarenReport
SAVE THE DATE: PRODUCING CALENDAR CONTENT FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
Lawn Programs at the International Cottages (every Sunday at 2pm)
Music at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (every Sunday at 2pm)
Art Alive at The San Diego Museum of Art (April 12-15)
Puppet shows (Wed.,Thurs., Fri.10am & 11:30am; Sat. & Sun. 11am, 1pm & 2:30pm)
Craft Revolution show at Mingei (everyday except Mon.)
A Room with a View at The Old Globe (Tues & Wed at
7:00 pm; Thu., Fri., Sat. at 8pm; Sundays at 2 & 8pm)
10-14 million visitors per year
CALENDAR SOLUTION
Goal
Make it easy for people to find out about Balboa Park
events anytime, anywhere
What we needed
A calendar that could:
Manage Repeat Events
Push content between sites
> From institution sites to Balboapark.org
> From Balboapark.org to other sites
DRUPAL CMS
• Content Management System
• Open Source
• Used for Balboapark.org and
20+ other websites in Balboa
Park
• Used for Balboa Park outdoor
kiosks
• Used for TAP, ArtBabble
Shared Tools
Tech Support
COLLABORATIVE CALENDAR MODULE
• Developed by Palantir
• Requirements:
• Complex repeating patterns
• Ability to transfer events from
members/satellites to central calendar
• Ability for an admin to edit events
transferred to central calendar
• Ability for central data to be pulled
into satellite sites
• Ability to create feeds from central
calendar to other potential partners
and platforms
CALENDAR INSTALLATION
Step-by-step instructions: Available in a 2011 Museums and
the Web paper titled “Installing the Collaborative Calendar”
(Bostick and Garfield, 2011).
Not perfect. But we’re working on it.
DEMONSTRATION
MOBILE APPS: Branded iPhone app
BEGIN:VEVENTUID:[email protected]:Sharks 3DDTSTAMP:20120130T194521ZDTSTART:20120130T190000ZDTEND:20120130T194000ZCATEGORIES:FilmCOMMENT:11:00 am - 11:40 amCONTACT:(619) 232-3821DESCRIPTION:Sharks 3D/ offers audiences an \n astonishing up-close encounter with the lions and tigers of the opean. \n Visitors will come face-to-face with a multitude of shark species\, including \n the Great White\, Hammerhead\, and the Whale Shark. The film depicts sharks as \n they really are\; not malicious man-eating creatures\, but wild\, fascinating \n and endangered animals that have been in existence millions of years before \n dinosaurs roamed the Earth.LOCATION:San Diego Natural History MuseumATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://www.balboapark.org/sites/default/files/sharks_poster_0_1.jpgURL;VALUE=URI:http://www.balboapark.org/calendar/event/2012-01-30/sharks-3dLAST-MODIFIED:20120120GMT1400-28800END:VEVENT
<item> <title>The San Diego Museum of Art</title> <description><p>As the region's oldest and largest art museum, the San Diego Museum of Art's renowned holdings include a fine selection of European old masters, 19th and 20th century American art, an encyclopedic Asian collection, and growing collections of contemporary and Latin American art. In addition, the museum presents major art exhibitions from around the world, as well as an extensive schedule of supporting cultural and educational programs.</p></description> <link>http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/san-diego-museum-art</link> <author>http://www.balboapark.org/sites/default/files/sdmavisitors_in_rotunda_2.jpg</author> <dc:creator>http://www.balboapark.org/sites/default/files/sdmavisitors_in_rotunda_2.jpg</dc:creator> <category>Museums, December Nights, Just for Kids, Educational</category> <guid>248</guid> <pubDate>Jan 23, 12</pubDate> <georss:point>32.731983 -117.150459</georss:point> </item>
- iCal events feed - Org feed RSS
- GPS
Not good enough.
MOBILE APPS: Meridian App
Same iCal events feed
Slightly different org feed RSS
Different navigation
MOBILE APPS: December Nights Guide on Meridian
300,000 visitors over two days
MOBILE APPS: December Nights Guide on Meridian
OUTDOOR KIOSKS (old)
OUTDOOR KIOSKS (new)
- Event feed - Org feed - OpenX
OUR EVENTS GET AROUND
www.sdmart.org
www.balboapark.org (150,000+ visitors/month)
Balboa Park iPhone app (40k+ downloads)
Balboa Park guide on Meridian (80k+ downloads; 20k+
pageviews/month)
Outdoor Kiosks (~4k pageviews/month on each of
4 kiosks. One under construction)
www.rhfleet.org
www.sandiegohistory.org
www.mopa.org
+ others
. . .
San Diego local media
(earned media)
National Initiatives (e.g., Project
Audience)
Local/regional tourism bureaus
Local event calendars
CHALLENGES
- Multiple feeds, contributors,
developers (Domino effect)
- Unreliable hardware
- Unreliable networks
(need WiFi)
& building new software is never easy
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