day 2, workshop 6, anra kennedy

The Culture24 Direct Data Entry Community

Anra Kennedy - Anra@culture24.org.uk

User communities:Website visitorsData consumers4385 venues

Who are our DDE contributors?

• Approx 50% of 4300+ active• National• Regional• Local/small • Collective: Local authority, National Trust• Virtual

User profiles:

1. Volunteer in a very small museum. Limited web access. Enthusiast.

2. Press/marketing person in small, busy team within institution.

3. Press/marketing person in larger team working on behalf of a group.

Classification…. controlled vocabularies…

TypeDate (events calendar)Regions (location)

Subjects: Art, History, Science, Teaching & LearningRolesTime (in history)National Curriculum

Mixed messages…

• Free our data• Join up our data• Data must be robust• Data must be up to

date• Public data should

be free (?!)

• I don’t have time• It’s not my job• Why your system?• What’s the point?• What’s my password

again?• It’s broken…• Thank you!

Be available, responsive and human…

Lessons learned:

More lessons learned:

Be prepared to repeat yourself, endlesslyJustify participationDisclaim AND take responsibilityNo interface or data set is perfectThink community – yours and others‘Humanise’ your language and interface

The future for the Culture24 data inputters?

Contacts: Ruth Harper, network coordinator

Ruth@culture24.org.uk

Anra Kennedy - Anra@culture24.org.uk