Dear MCGers
I thought you might be interested in something Wellcome Collection launches today, the first in a series (we hope) of 'digital stories' exploring our collections. It's called 'Mindcraft' and tells a six-part history of mesmerism and mind control in the nineteenth century history.
http://digitalstories.wellcomecollection.org/
Aside from a little self-publicity (forgive me, it's been a long haul), I thought it might be interesting for the list because it's an atypical digital museum project. We wanted to find new ways of telling stories online, using our digitised collections as sources, rather than creating something that explained an existing digitised collection. We also wanted to expose people to original and new digitised content (some of which was digitised specially for this project) without dropping them into researcher-oriented catalogues, so we've embedded Wellcome Library's player into the experience - you can access the digitised resources (and download hi-res Creative Commons images, natch) from within the story.
Your thoughts on what we've done (and the more general issues raised) would be very welcome.
Thanks
Danny
Danny Birchall
Digital Manager, Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Trust
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