09 Oct 2008

Collections and the Web - Perth

Collections and the Web - Perth, 9 September 2008

This is the follow-up and support material from the CAN Outreach Collections and the Web seminar held at Scitech on Tuesday 9 September 2008. There are mp3 audio files of each speaker's presentation - please download and open them in your own media player.

Panel and Presentations

• Joy Suliman – Project Manager, Collections Australia Network
Building from the basics: maximising your online presence
Your organisation's web and online communications strategy should be integral to the operation of your organisation. It should allow you to reach your audience in a variety of ways. This presentation will examine how to use different online media to reach different audiences, new developments on CAN, and show best practice examples.

• Greg Wallace – Cultural and Digital Collections Planning Consultant
Establishing and sustaining digital collections: identifying issues, seeing through myths and overcoming challenges
This presentation will draw upon perspectives gained with projects carried out in central and northern Australia. Issues and challenges will be introduced and some myths dispelled. The presentation emphasises the importance of ensuring that the purpose for establishing a digital collection is clear from the start. Planning requires policies and strategy frameworks to be in place, standards identified (and monitored). Training needs to be provided to ensure appropriate procedures are used throughout the life cycle of digital objects in a collection. Links will be provided to further information including publications, useful websites, and online training.

• David Satterthwaite – Editor, Science Network WA
The secret to having happy visitors? Have more fun than they do
This presentation will examine how online design, form and function can be presented in an exciting fashion to engage with visitors of all ages. The talk will also look at how a positive institutional ethos can be enhanced internally and conveyed externally by use of vibrant graphic design, active language and innovative use of technology.

• Michael Gosney – Multimedia and IT Manager, Scitech
Is your wallpaper more up-to-date than your website?
The presentation will discuss how an institution can make its online presence more valuable for visitors by analysis of target audiences and tailoring of website content and functionality to suit. Web 2.0 technologies will also be evaluated for their use in promotional and information roles. The re-design of the ScienceNetwork WA website will be used as an example for the topics discussed in the presentation.

• Kathryn Greenhill – Emerging Technologies Specialist, Murdoch University Library
....but I don’t have time, and THEY don’t get it: finding time and reasons to learn about emerging technologies
With new web tools springing up each day, how can you possibly keep up? How do you convince your organisation that you need to spend time learning about them? How do you find that time anyhow? This session suggests some reasons why it is worth learning about new technologies, some items that should be in your learning toolkit, some useful sites and why knowing about your clients is more important than knowing about new technologies.


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Geoff Barker
Position:
Online Producer
Tel:
+61 (2) 9217 0347
Email:
enquiries@collectionsaustralia.net
Webpage:
www.collectionsaustralia.net
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