So now, at Kulturkanon, you can find most of, if not all, the works that made their way into the much discussed Officially Endorced Canon of Danish Culture, launched in early spring this year.

Not surprisingly, the ministry has gone ahead and ordered an "innovative" webdesign, made in pure Flash, so it is completely impossible to make direct links to any of the works listed (though direct links would be highly relevant to teachers and others wanting to teach some of the works represented, I would think). Which works the thumbnails on the frontpage represent remains a secret to those not initiated into Danish Culture until you mouse over them (how's that for communicating culture? - at least until you discover that on the top-navigation bar you can get a text-view). Then, they've presented the individual works by way of a collage of small windows which appears only with a small piece of text in them. It takes some time, before you find out that to get the info promised in the small piece of text, you shouldnt click on the text, but click on "multiple windows" icon in the topmost right corner, the place where you conventionally CLOSE a window. Oh, and when you click on the "other languages" tab in the main window with info on the individual canonical work, you get links to pdf.docs of the entire canon, i.e. the info have NOT been translated!). Did they not do a usability test on this website??? - But well, what the heck, at least they've tried to digitalise the works, and even thrown in some multimedia files...

May I take this opportunity to remind you, that I was part of an small alternatively "appointed" taskforce, that made its own canon of _digital_ culture and put it online a long time ago...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 00:18