Dulwich OnView: an art museum-based virtual community generated by the local community

Abstract

Dulwich OnView (DOV) is a museum blog magazine run by the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery (DPG) for the surrounding community in south London. It includes articles concerning both the gallery and the local community, helping to promote DPG in the process, in a fast-moving informal way that complements the official DPG website. For example, a competition for online artworks has been undertaken using DOV in association with a temporary exhibition of works by the 20 ^th century British artist Paul Nash. This paper provides an overview of the progress of the blog, since its launch in January 2008, including statistical information. A redesign of the DOV blog has been undertaken in 2010, aimed at a better structuring of the increasing number of articles into categories and the integration between the more formal and static DPG website and the more informal and dynamic DOV website, with suitable interconnecting links. As part of the redesign process for the DOV website a usability review was conducted. DOV has also been part of a wider study, investigating a number of varied museum-based virtual communities in an art education context using the social science Community of Practice (CoP) framework.

Affiliations

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Gallery Road

London SE21 7AD

United Kingdom

Museophile Limited

Oak Barn, Sonning Eye

Reading RG4 6TN

United Kingdom

National Taiwan Normal University

No. 19, Da-Tong West Road

Taoyuan City

Taiwan, R.O.C.

London South Bank Univ.

Faculty of Business

Borough Road

London SE1 0AA, UK

Contributors

Ingrid Beazley

Jonathan P. Bowen

Alison H.Y. Liu

Sarah McDaid

Conference

Publication date: July 2010

Publication date (Print): July 2010

Pages: 79-86

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2010.14

Copyright statement: © Ingrid Beazley et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 5 - 7 July 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing