Hi Jason
I like your website and the series of pictures that display on the home
page. I have tried to do a banner similar to this for our Fine Arts data
base, here at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Sadly my banner is taking
up to much memory so slowly the page down, do you have any tips. I just
made an animated gif in Photoshop.
Tony
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Sent: 24 January 2011 12:09
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Subject: Re: Does Europeana make you think culture?
Hi
I manage the www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk website that uses the culture
grid but has been specifically designed to contextualise the collections
it displays. We therefore have hundreds of pages of information about
all sorts of aspects of London life and people in the 20th century and
most objects have a caption that tells you something interesting.
I definitely agree that for a lot of people a database of objects online
is not going to engage them. To try and overcome this we've been working
hard utilizing social media and have a program of audio slideshows that
tell small but interesting stories. So far these have been successful in
helping us have something to market and give people who just want some
entertainment something to look at.
Without this kind of ongoing content creation though, I do fear that at
best people will look at online collections once and then not think to
return. Creating content, of course, requires either money for staff or
volunteers who are generous with their time. For this project at least
it's something I'd like to develop.
As Nick says Culture Grid and Europeana are not destination sites and
it's up to us to make them.
Cheers.
Jason
Jason Webber
Web Manager, Exploring 20th Centuy London, Information Resources Section
Museum of London
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Jim Richardson
Sent: 24 January 2011 11:52
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Subject: Re: Does Europeana make you think culture?
Hi All
Personally I struggle to think of a good online collection. I certainly
don't rate Europeana which is incredibly dry, and doesn't keep my
interest more then a few seconds before I click away.
Perhaps before we digitise every collection in Europe we should speak to
our audiences about what they would want from such a website, and
develop a better standard of collection interface.
As I say, though I think Europeana is terribly designed (and has a truly
awful name) I struggle to come up with a museum who has done it
brilliantly. Personally I like the collection pages on the Brooklyn
Museum website which I find to be friendly, easy to use and interesting,
but I don't think it's a perfect solution...
Anyone think they have nailed the right design for an online collection?
Jim
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