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What do users use galleries for?
To promote their art/artistic vision (Corina)
To promote the collections aggregated by Photoconsortium (Susanna)
To aid in lesson plans (Daniela)
What kinds of items are most frequently saved in galleries?
Images
Video
Sound
What are users' motivations for liking items, or making more specific galleries?
To supplement specific stories posted on the website as part of their data space requirements (Susanna)
To illustrate and provide context to a specific English text, poem, video or lesson (Daniela)
What are users' motivations for keeping galleries private, or making them public?
Most of these users' galleries had been at least submitted for publication. if not, they had either been rejected (Daniela) or were still works in progress (Susanna).
What are users' motivations for submitting galleries for publication?
They want to make them public to promote themselves (Corina), their org (Susanna), and to teach others and share the effort they’ve invested (Corina and Daniela)
What are users' barriers to creating galleries?
Search challenges such as unrelated items/false positives, or items not working (Corina, Daniela)
The gallery being rejected because requirements were not clear (Daniela)
What do they like about how galleries currently work, and what don’t they like? (Pains & gains)
Gains: Overall, it’s an easy and smooth process to add and remove items.
Pains: Corina wants to be able to create items based on her own work, to present in her galelries alongside the inspirational items already there.
Pains: Daniela wants clearer publication instructions (they didn’t state that items need to be more varied).
What other apps do they use with similar features? (Pinterest, Google A&C, Tumblr, etc.?) Why do they use them?
Wonderopolis (Daniela)
Historiana (Susanna)
(They may use others, I will need to follow-up and check)
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Independent artist/creator of fire-related visual and video artworks.
Took a Europeana Academy course back in June; creating a gallery was part of the lesson.
Her priority is to be able to upload her own content and add it to a gallery. This gallery was just to ‘test it out’ - check with Henning how we approach this.
Galleries express her work and style of expression.
She is inspired by fire and how it represents transformation.
Even if she could upload her own work, she would still create galleries of content from Europeana’s existing collections.
To express the art, to study, and to educate the public about fire, her process and work.
She primarily has used desktop & chrome to create her gallery. She has used the website on her laptop too; she hasn’t tried on mobile.
She is interested in using videos to study fire art techniques; the technical and scientific side of fire.
She will start with the search term ‘fire’ in the main search bar on the home page of the site (not the top search bar).
Once she has created a gallery and added items to it, she will drag and drop them to create flow in the gallery itself.
‘You need to make the public feel and think; you need to transmit something.’
Interest in thermal science items, there are many in the gallery (less visual, as items, which is interesting)
Artistic inspiration:
‘It’s not about burning for fun', it’s about transformation and expression.
She is interested in ‘controlling [herself] and knowing her limits’.
Why publish it? ‘More people will find and study these materials’.
‘Fire is not only mine, it’s something we all use.'
She wants people to know that fire is not about destruction, but transformation.
Some audio items were not playing? Check with team.
Her video work is more impactful, and thus she wants to upload and share it.
To educate the public about fire art, fire control and safety.
Her main audience is for adults, not for kids.
‘It’s too emotional'
She doesn’t want kids to play with fire to try and copy her
Ok to reach out to her for future sessions.
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To group story media together in one place
Often she’ll stat with the idea for the story, and then look for images; but it’s sometimes the other way around too
She will select media, often photos as that is PHOTOCONSTORIUM’s interest
She groups her ideas and picks form there for the story
Therefore there are always more images in the gallery than in the story
(IDEA - Check transitions between stories and galleries on Matomo)
Standalone galleries with more images than content for a story
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