Ed
Lots of things to think about:
- what are you trying to achieve?
- what's your expected demographic?
- what level of knowledge do they come with?
- expected dwell time on kiosks is <5 mins
- UI on an existing digital library system is unlikely to work in this context (people won't accept ANY sort of learning curve)
We developed Turning the Pages and have done this sort of things with the BL, IWM, Wellcome etc, so mail me off list and I'll see if I can point you at the right people at these organisations.
Michael
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On 23 Nov 2012, at 12:59, Ed Fay wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I hope you might indugle a list newcomer's question...
>
> We are currently planning for the transfer of the Women's Library to LSE [
> http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/news/Womens-Library.aspx] and part of that
> involves the creation of a new exhibitions space.
>
> I am thinking through the options for having a digital presence in that
> space.
>
> As part of the transfer we are planning a programme of digitisation that
> will make (hopefully a significant amount of) material available online.
> Although content selection is at the early stages we are already planning
> IA/UX work to enhance our current Digital Library [
> http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/]
>
> My question is whether there is any learning from the museum sector that
> might give guidance on what approaches work or don't work when surfacing
> digital collections in physical exhbitions spaces, in the form of audience
> research, case studies, etc.
>
> The options which have occured to us so far include:
>
> 1) a standalone digital kiosk giving depth access to whole/partial digital
> collections via the existing Digital Library interface (including
> search/browse functionality + object display)
> 2) several digital terminals interspersed with the physical cabinets,
> limited to showing either single or a few items in a more constrained
> interface (eg turning the pages, multimedia playback)
> 3) digital displays above/with each physical cabinet showing more items or
> additional information related to the objects on display
>
> Any suggestions for published material or pointers to who we should be
> talking to would be much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any assistance you are able to offer.
>
> ---
>
> Ed Fay, Digital Library Manager
>
> Library | London School of Economics
>
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