On 04/03/2015 10:56, Ellis, Linda wrote:
> We are embarking on a new project to showcase our collections online. As a first step we want to concentrate on just a few items from our collections and I am very interested in looking at examples where this approach has been taken, please could people suggest websites that I should look at - good or bad examples would be equally useful!
Hi Linda,
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum are using the new site we built
with them to tell stories illustrated from their archive while they continue
to build up their cataloguing, see e.g.
http://baseballhall.org/discover/when-the-offseason-meant-job-season
http://baseballhall.org/discover/lou-gehrig-luckiest-man
In slight contrast, the new Qatar Digital Library has already got nearly
half-a-million items online (about a third of the way there!), but is
organised very explicitly with two routes - the direct archive explorer, and
short articles showcasing small selections - the latter is also expanding in
parallel with the archive, as the curators make discoveries. Some examples:
http://www.qdl.qa/en/air-crashes-gulf-during-second-world-war
http://www.qdl.qa/en/scientific-translators-and-powerful-patrons
It can obviously be a very effective way of helping more casual and general
interest visitors find treasures and excitement in an archive, while the
scholars and researches dive for the search box.
Ben
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