I've yet to explore this properly but it looks great. That timeline's
very interesting too: <geek>cool to see it implemented as a collection
of unordered lists</geek>
Plus I note, as well as the "actual" URL you provide a reference URL
that resolves to the actual (current) one: presumably to be regarded as
a permanent URL? Great stuff. I don't suppose there's a data view of the
object info too is there? (trying to mesh this with the linked data
thread...)
Congratulations, and I look forward to browsing all this beautiful
material (as a person, not a museum geek)
Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
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Paul Groves
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Subject: [MCG] Launch of Ashmolean Museum's Eastern Art Online: The
Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Dear MCG-ers,
I'm delighted to announce the recent launch of Eastern Art Online: The
Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/
This is a major online resource from the recently expanded and
refurbished Ashmolean, to open up the University of Oxford's Islamic
and Asian Art collections held at the Museum to a wider audience.
The site showcases collections from the Islamic Middle East, the
Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea. Currently
there are around 1,400 objects on the site, but this figure will be
expanded over time as documentation work progresses and over 11,000
objects have actually been photographed as part of the project, most
three dimensional objects with multiple views.
It is possible to zoom into very high-quality images from a wide range
of media, including ceramics, textiles, sculpture, metalwork,
paintings and prints. Much effort has gone into try to make the
website as usable as possible and to provide a number of different
ways in which to approach the collections, including features such as
an interactive timeline and floorplan, as well as online galleries,
online versions of publications and "collection trails".
As well as expanding the amount of content on the site, the next
phase of the project aims to build on the foundations already created
and to add new features to the website, allowing greater user
interaction and ways in which to explore the collections.
The project started in 2007 with the support of arts philanthropist
Yousef Jameel (for more info. see:
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/project/21). Also funded by Yousef
Jameel and opening later this year will be a (physical) study centre
of Islamic and Asian Art at the Ashmolean.
I hope you all take the opportunity to have a look at the site and I
would very much welcome any feedback you have about it, especially any
ways in which you think it could be improved or enhanced - we're open
to ideas, including possible collaborations with other institutions.
I would also like this opportunity to thank Keepthinking Digital
design (http://www.keepthinking.it/ ), who worked closely with us to
develop the design and functionality of the website, as well as
heroically grappling with our very complex data. Special thanks are
also due to Martin Bazley (http://www.martinbazley.com/) for his hard
work gathering user testing feedback throughout the development
lifecycle. A full list of acknowledgements can be found at:
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/project/919
regards
Paul
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Paul Groves
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Eastern Art Online; Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
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