On 24 Jun 2014, at 17:59, Kevin Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> yes agree wholeheartedly - the point being we want to get the right people
> to author content, but in a particular context, not delivering some 600
> word essay as a attachment that has to be deployed by a technical middle
> person ! -
As a technical middle person, I always like to see some of the content written first, so that I can then develop the appropriate infrastructure to best manage it.
It is a little bit chicken and egg for sure, but even with something like WordPress; decisions have to be made regarding the *type* of ‘post' - e.g. should it have specific controlled vocabulary metadata, should the taxonomy for categories and tagging be predetermined or free for authors to make up as they go along etc.
And then there are the decisions about structure - is this a tall and thin story - lots of layers with a little bit of detail at each one, or a short and broad story - a few levels with lots of detail etc.
And then when you’ve got all that sorted you can start to design the presentation layer - what gets shown to who and where.
And then you can plan the guiding content elements around the story.
How are you seeing BLE beacons fitting in to the exhibition space? As an alternative to labelling? or as a clever tour guide? or some combination of both?
We’re envisaging the latter - where a BLE beacon sensitive app would give you more detail about the object you’re standing in front of, and suggest related objects and guide you to them.
My only concern with that implementation of BLE tech is the vision of hordes of head down visitors bumping in to each other while looking for the next item on their ‘to-see’ list. (which is where Glass would come in!)
Using a guide book, is a heads up experience - to see signage and directional clues - following an app based tour on a portable device will be like texting and walking - and we know how that ends up!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8268547/Dangers-of-texting-while-walking-woman-falls-into-fountain.html
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