A presentation from Museums and the Web 2010
Balboa Park Online Collaborative is a collaborative technology project involving 17 museums, performing arts venues, gardens, and the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego. This paper will present the challenges we faced in managing the creation and execution of a common strategy and framework during our first year. We will share the successes and lessons learned as well as the compromises required to move the institutions of Balboa Park forward and manage the project effectively.
Session: Collaboration Outcomes - Part 1 [organizations]
See: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002335.html
33. Training Onsite Drupal (8 attendees) Social media (50 attendees) Embark Training Mobile Museum (70 attendees) Enabled MW 2009 (5 staff) Digital Directions Conf (6 attendees) MCN 2009 (13 staff) MW 2010 (13 staff)
54. Collections Japanese Friendship Garden Society of San Diego Mingei International Museum Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego Air & Space Museum San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum San Diego Historical Society San Diego Museum of Art San Diego Museum of Man San Diego Natural History Museum Timken Museum of Art
55. Collections Baseline survey Legacy data conversions Collections system management leveling and documentation Data normalization and standardization Intellectual property sharing strategy (Commons) Application programming interface
60. Collections Online Collection access Park wide commons Centralized development for access and educational toolsets Shared digitization labs Rapid capture Video Slides
61. Infrastructure High speed park network pilot project Public wireless hot spots pilot project Network infrastructure--virtualization of servers Centralized storage and backup Application hosting and technical support Enterprise digital asset management
66. Metrics Realize savings through collaborative effort Savings over previous implementations Savings from new functions Value attained through new functions Improve public access to Balboa Park content Collections Digitized: Growth in number of items in digital form Collections Online: Growth in numbers of objects Collections Accessed: Growth in # items accessed BP on-site visits Enhanced desired Demographics Participation in Online Activities
67. Metrics Enhance organizational capability Human resources Infrastructure Applications Ability to meet organizations mission Enable collaboration (that would not otherwise have been possible ) Major Park wide Initiatives undertaken Institutional Initiatives undertaken External Recognition
68. Metrics Move towards sustainability of BPOC Organizations are engaged time contributed to BPOC led projects Member inst. $ spent on BPOC led projects BPOC generated revenue Advertising income Tourism income Fees for workshops Sponsorship income Grant funded income Grants to BPOC Grants to members with earmarked BPOC funding Grants to members enabled by BPOC partnership BPOC Contract services Number of member institutions involved $ returned to BPOC
69. Issues People, not processes Member capacity Financial requirements Project Scale Faulty Assumptions and Staffing Mistakes