Dear all,
I wonder if I could take advantage of a Friday afternoon to ask the list's advice?! At the Royal Collection, we are working on the relaunch of our online collection to replace the current version at www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection<http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection>.
One of the issues that we currently have is how to present objects/records with multiple images related to them - in the current site we have records with as many as 450 images attached, causing load issues and being very difficult for users to navigate. As we work towards digitising the collection, this is only likely to become more of a problem, but the advice of our designers/developers is to limit the number of resources that we return against each record, and so we are currently looking at a maximum of 12.
For 3-d objects, we intend to embed animation/film where we have it of the item working/being opened, as a more effective visual presentation of an item, using Vimeo. Our bigger challenge is with books/manuscripts/photo albums etc. We're thinking of following the turning the pages style route for this material, and wondered if there were any examples of really successful implementations out there? I'm aware of things like Wellcome Player, which looks really interesting, and we've also considered something like http://fliphtml5.com/ which we've used in the past for Annual Reports and brochures.
Are we missing something obvious? As always, there's budgetary constraints at work, and we need to have something that we can make available in the near future, but we'd need the solution to be scalable and ideally one that will last us for the lifetime of this iteration of our online collection.
Any comments and suggestions gratefully received!
Kind regards,
Andrew Davis
Collection Online Content Manager
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