Digital Transformation
Enhance Discoverability
& Grow Your Audiences
Digital Transformation Services
We work with you to build technology roadmaps to implement cutting-edge technologies and digital practices to enhance accessibility, engagement, and the overall visitor experience.
Technology Roadmap
When updating or redesigning your digital strategy, we will review modern technology solutions and recommend the best fit for your organization, including:
- content management systems / website
- online collections
- ticketing systems
Online Programming
We help design and deliver online programming to help you stay connected and expand audiences and visitors.
- online exhibits
- integrating online collections with SEO
- optimizing your YouTube channel
- virtual expert talks
- virtual tours
Increasing Discoverability
We help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) organizations and artists find new audiences online through:
- SEO audit of existing website and social media integration
- online presence workshops
- discoverability toolkits
- wikimedia peer editing
Digital Transformation Client Work
Oakville Arts Council
Through our work examining technology platforms used by arts and culture organizations, we were able to recommend options to improve grant allocations and membership tracking.
Ontario Municipal Heritage Museum Digital Project 2024-5
Our firm worked in collaboration with a municipal museum in the preparation of a digitization plan and digital strategy over several months of time. Municipal staff participated in the digital transformation process by prioritizing online exhibit content recommendations as well as potential digitization projects.
Wiki GLAM projects
Victoria has worked for several years with visual artists, art galleries and museums to create a series of workshops and tools to help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) increase their audiences and links to communities through Wikidata editing sessions and uploads to Wikicommons.
Digital Transformation Program – Wiki Wednesdays – 2022 to 2024
Wiki Wednesdays
Wiki-Wednesdays were free online monthly learning sessions designed to help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) professionals understand how art galleries and museums can use linked open data (LOD) to raise awareness of their organizations and artists.
Funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts these sessions were brought to you by Victoria Stasiuk and Associates and Navino Evans from Histropedia.
Events – Series 2
| SEPTEMBER 6 | Kickoff Launch Session |
| OCTOBER 4 | Wiki-Wednesdays GLAM: SEO & Wikidata with Inga Petri, Strategic Moves |
| NOVEMBER 1 | South Asian Artists in Canada: Exploring Cultural Works & Digital Empowerment with Indu Adiyat and Dr. Beenish Tahir |
| DECEMBER 6 | Jason Evans – How would a Wikimedian in Residence help your cultural organization? |
| JANUARY 10 |
Online Collections – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the WikiCommons: Partnered Session with BC Museums Association Members |
| FEBRUARY 7 | Raising the Profile & Discoverability of Metis artists with Tracey-Mae Chambers & George Simard |
Resources
Wiki Wednesday participants resources, including:
- Presentations
- Newsletters
- Toolkit – Embracing Wikidata for Visual Artist: A Guide to Discoverability Online, a joint product of Victoria Stasiuk & Associates + Strategic Moves, created by Felicity Buckell & Inga Petri, October 2023
- YouTube Videos
Case Studies
We will be adding to this section in our future work, once funding is secured.
- TBD
Visualizations
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Uninvited, Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
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Sobey Art Award winners
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Emily Carr, mapping examples of online collections and Wiki Commons uploads
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Métis artists who were born in Canada/North America.
Digital Transformation Insights
Is your Museum’s website balancing SEO + AI?
We’ve summarized some tips for smaller museums to focus on for online discoverability integrating AI and websites.
Museum Digital Strategy Optimization
Smaller museums are looking for ways to optimize their staff time and marketing budgets to ensure they increase their digital visitors and audience revenue by creating a museum digital strategy that will take them from here to there.
Museum Digital Strategy
Many museums accelerated their digitization and digital strategy tactics during Covid. This post provides links to Canadian resources as well as a details from a US survey on digital readiness in museums.