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Comment on Working out collections online – your questions? by mia

mia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:15:30 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to look at this yet but http://searchpatterns.org/ might be really useful. It’s the wiki of the book by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender.

Comment on Working out collections online – your questions? by mia

mia — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:54:42 +0000

Great questions!

‘Advanced search’ is a such a juicy question – I suspect there’s an audience for it somewhere, but it would very much depend on the collection and type of searcher. Or maybe there’s no audience for advanced search…

I saw a demo of http://sig.ma/ yesterday – I don’t have my notes here, but I think that was the one that was exploring ‘fuzzy browsing’, which sounded like something to explore for faceted browsing.

Comment on Working out collections online – your questions? by Nate Solas

Nate Solas — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:15:44 +0000

Ooh. Awesome. I have been fully intending to start mining the search stats for ArtsConnectEd, but haven’t yet gotten to it. Now it’s a race. :)

Questions I’m interested in:

- The “how” of searches – how do people iterate collection searches? Do they try adding or removing keywords? Do they use the facets we present to browse? Do they find dead-ends (0 results) even when we warn them? Do they type in artist names even though we have a separate field for that? Are they trying to use us like google? Do they sort by date?
- Very much related: what counts as a successful search? When they stop searching for a while after clicking on something? Just opening an object detail page? Collecting / tagging / commenting on something?
- And also, the overlap between search and browse, and the bugaboo of “Advanced Search”. I am now firmly anti-Advanced Search, but it’s hard to summarize. I think a good browse with a keyword field is really the holy grail of collection exploration (keyword is just another facet!), but I’m not sure we got it right. Any stats / input / ideas on this would be appreciated.

Can’t wait to see what else comes in!

Comment on The Cosmos and Culture mashup competition by Save the date – Cosmos and Culture launch event « Museum Web Developers

Save the date – Cosmos and Culture launch event « Museum Web Developers — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:02:14 +0000

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Comment on Tip of the Day: saving web.config as Unicode by Mia

Mia — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:48:15 +0000

Thanks for letting me know – I'm glad it's helped someone else.

Comment on Tip of the Day: saving web.config as Unicode by Mujeeb Rahman .PT

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