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Designing A Digital Ecosystem For The New Museum Environment: The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Jennie A. Lawson, Peter W. Eklund, Peter Goodall, Timothy Wray, Vinod Daniel, Melanie Van Olffen Jun 2013

Designing A Digital Ecosystem For The New Museum Environment: The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Jennie A. Lawson, Peter W. Eklund, Peter Goodall, Timothy Wray, Vinod Daniel, Melanie Van Olffen

Amanda Lawson

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a social media platform for a digital ecosystem, which enables a variety of user communities to engage with the Pacific Collection of the Australian Museum. The success of the system depends on facilitating the development of culturally relevant folksonomies and encouraging a conversation between online communities. In this paper we explore the relationships between stakeholders, folksonomy and taxonomy, to reveal the design strategies which inform this digital ecosystem. Our analysis defines the scope for the social tagging component of our information model and discusses how users might interact with objects (in terms of …


Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson Jun 2013

Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson

Amanda Lawson

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A Speculative Venture: Contemporary Art, History And Hill End, Amanda Lawson Jun 2013

A Speculative Venture: Contemporary Art, History And Hill End, Amanda Lawson

Amanda Lawson

Writing in his diary on 2 January 1949, Australian artist, Donald Friend (1915- 1989), describes the events of the night before: Last night there was an impromptu dance - I should say a drunken Breughel peasant romp - at the hall to celebrate the New Year. It was improvised suddenly on the spot by those who had not been invited, and were furious at being left out, to a dance in Sofala, to which the lucky ones went in a bus. Later they went round the village gate-stealing .. .. (Friend 633) Friend writes from Hill End, an old gold-mining …


Designing The Digital Ecosystem Of The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Tim Wray, Brogan Bunt, Amanda Lawson, L. Christidis, V. Daniel, M. Van Olffen Dec 2010

Designing The Digital Ecosystem Of The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Tim Wray, Brogan Bunt, Amanda Lawson, L. Christidis, V. Daniel, M. Van Olffen

Amanda Lawson

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a digital ecosystem implemented as Web 2.0 application that experiments with information and knowledge acquisition for a digital collection of museum artifacts from the Australian Museum. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific allows several search methods: attribute search based on a control vocabulary, query refinement and query-by-example but importantly it facilitates a number of social media interfaces that enable content to be added and tagged, the control vocabulary to be extended, user perspectives to be defined and narratives added via wiki. We characterize the design of the Virtual Museum of the Pacific as: …


Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray Dec 2010

Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray

Amanda Lawson

CollectionWeb is a development platform for Web-based social media sites that distribute, display, annotate and management digital collection content. CollectionWeb is based on an approach that generates semantic navigation interfaces that induces pages from collection metadata using Formal Concept Analysis.


The Art Collection Ecosystem: Discovering Art Using Formal Concept Analysis, Tim Wray, Peter Eklund, Amanda Lawson Dec 2010

The Art Collection Ecosystem: Discovering Art Using Formal Concept Analysis, Tim Wray, Peter Eklund, Amanda Lawson

Amanda Lawson

We describe an application and case study in the design and evaluation of the Art Collection Ecosystem (ACE) | a Rich Internet Application that supports the ability of users to browse and explore art collections using Formal Concept Analysis. With a view of a system that allows browsing of tagged content, 25 participants conducted a usability study within the context of a popular social media website - Flickr. We describe key design elements within its user interface and incorporate re- visions of its design based on user feedback. We incorporate these results into a framework called CollectionWeb - a set …