What an interesting dilemma! Do you have an example of a record with 450
images you could share, to help people understand the context?
A few questions... Who are your target audiences? And could the images be
grouped by type, or prioritised by relevance/quality/whatever? And are all
the images different, or are some close duplicates that could be left out?
Are you looking for ways to signal the availability of the full set of
images for those who want to delve into everything while shielding the
casual visitor from information (and browser) overload, and if so, what
kind of information would people need to assess whether or not they wanted
to follow the link for more images?
I read quite a bit on the Internet Archive (beta interface:
https://archive.org/details/harvardclassicss01elio classic interface:
https://archive.org/details/harvardclassicss01elio) and I like that they
offer PDF, Kindle, ePub etc download options as well as an in-browser
interface (including decent zoom when the image supports it, but then it's
hard to move around the page without triggering the forward/back
navigation). I'm not a huge fan of animations that just seem to add delay
to the turning of a page, but it can work well for illuminated manuscripts.
Cheers, Mia
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On 13 February 2015 at 16:09, Andrew Davis <
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> 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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