Bridging the gap between content and language

Something Museum Audiences Related

by Elyse Warren

In a world that is becoming ever more globalized, museums are grappling with how to bridge the gap between language and accessibility of their content. Whether it be labels or brochures about the objects, museums as a general collective are trying to adapt their approach to producing content to better meet the needs of new immigrants and English language learners.

Based on this, the J Paul Getty Museum produced a study on the role and effectiveness of their brochures for Spanish speaking audiences in 2008. In their evaluation, they found that the audience took only 10,350 brochures in Spanish compared to that of 30,712 in English. The researchers discovered that the Spanish speaking audience preferred to utilize the labels of the objects for information rather than the brochure. Interviews conducted in this study revealed as well that the Spanish speaking audiences would like to see the museum…

View original post 222 more words

Advertisements

Leave a comment

Filed under Uncategorized

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

w

Connecting to %s
https://egcloyd.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/bridging-the-gap-between-content-and-language/
egcloyd.wordpress.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-30
71520
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:EWDCGQ7U67FFJAXORZVK4AJMKZKIOPCD
<urn:uuid:1de4b305-3ccf-4a45-8236-144a4abd0195>
2018-07-22T01:27:03Z
192.0.78.12
text/html
sha1:UUZCISFOV6YLOFENF4J23DXIKSELRZDW
<urn:uuid:43fb778b-4b5f-4ed3-8f0e-24f788eb973a>
https://egcloyd.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/bridging-the-gap-between-content-and-language/
response
<urn:uuid:7451b1f8-02f5-4471-85f0-8240910af231>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-159-151-213.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf