Hi all & Linda
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia we took a Œdepth over breadth
approach¹ to putting our collection online. We have just over 100 items
here:
http://www.mca.com.au/collection/all/
Happy to answer any questions
Best regards
Tristan Derátz
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On 5/03/2015 6:37 am, "Ben Rubinstein" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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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