key lessons and Future Research
Blobgects was designed to explore how people access
and make sense (or not) of museum catalog entries online—
catalog entries from the now-standardized catalogs that are
required of museums. To this end, the study was focused on
exploring how people would engage with catalog entries, in
their relatively pure form, in a format thatwas familiar to most
but that was unfamiliar to the catalog—that of the blog. The
experimental system intentionally did not include images, as
it was decided that this would complicate the understanding
of how people engaged with the catalog idiom. The study
therefore focused on how certain features of access, tagging,
and commenting might impact the means by which users