Claire Bailey-Ross

exploring museums, digital technology, higher education and user experiences

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Publications
Search

museum dashboard

Belated: Say hello to Museums Dashboard

May 21, 2013May 22, 2013 / claireyross / Leave a comment

MuseumsDashboard

Whilst I was galavanting about at Museums and the Web and Museum Next one of our projects that we have been working on launched!

Say hello to UCL Museums Dashboard!

The idea from the Museums Dashboard came from UCL CASA’s  brilliant City Dashboard and some of the fatastic museum dashboards that are already up and running.  Have a look at the IMA’s dashbaord for an excellent example.  We wanted to explore how live data and data visualisations can create a more transparent, open place that involves students, staff and the public in all aspects of UCL Museums.  So immediately thought a real time dashboard would be a quick and convenient way of displaying all that info in one place.

During the design and scoping of the Museums Dashboard, there was some great  feedback from some of the UCL curators, who were more than up for taking part and having fitbits to measure how many paces they do a day going from collection to collection.  We also talked about real time visitor counts, temperature, humidity, number of objects in collection, number of objects on loan, accessions and deaccessions, how many objects are currently being conserved…The list goes on and on.   However we were on a tight budget so some of the ideas had to be pared down to make a viable dashboard in the couple of months we had available.  The dashboard pulls in data from a variety feeds (Social Media, weather, online collection images, museum temperature), developing our research view that the next trend in OpenData is towards a live interactive view of museums.

My favourite data feed is the museum sensors measuring live temperature at 5 key UCL Museum spaces. So right now the Grant Museum Elephant is 20.8C the Art Museum is a bit hotter at 23.4C and poor old Jeremy Bentham is currently shut up in the pitch black of his box with a illuminance of 0.

Its in Beta, we would love to build on it, if we get the chance!  It has been developed by  CASA), (UCLDH),and UCL Museums and Public Engagement.  It is part of the bigger CityDashboard project, this Museum special version shows data from, or relevant to, UCL Museums and Collections. It is part of the NeISS project and was jointly funded by JISC and UCL Museums and Public Engagement.

tweets

  • RT @Arch_Tarek_Teba: Amazing week running the Mary Rose Hackathon!! Watch here one of the outputs!! youtube.com/watch?v=u-XB7R… @DC_UoP @arch… 3 weeks ago
  • RT @nat_collection: Read our published 'Online User Research Lit Review' by @clairey_ross. It looks at available work from 2015-21 to exam… 4 weeks ago
  • RT @ukmcg: How can museum professionals most effectively be equipped with digital skills? And how can we keep them and/or their skills in t… 1 month ago
Follow @clairey_ross

Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Claire Bailey-Ross

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Claire Bailey-Ross
    • Join 3,440 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Claire Bailey-Ross
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...