Hi John
I'd suggest that you swap the captions and images, so that the person
in the hard hat is associated with, 'I know what I'm looking for, let
me dive in, and the other image (with the telescope) allows for
browsing. Hard hat divers needed to know what they were about,
telescopes were often used to survey the wider scene
All best
Nick
The Regency Town House
www.rth.org.uk
On 13/07/2015, John Coburn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I thought I'd share v1 of a new collections interface Tyne & Wear Archives &
> Museums has been working on over the past year with Newcastle Uni and
> Microsoft Research. It's been funded as part of Nesta's Digital R&D for the
> Arts programme.
>
> It's intended to serve as a novel cross-collections interface encouraging
> 'non-specialist' audiences to browse and stumble across
> intriguing/surprising artefacts. Hopefully providing a simple and compelling
> search experience.
>
> http://collectionsdivetwmuseums.org.uk
> http://greatnorthmuseum.org.uk/collections/collections-search (via GNM:
> Hancock, one of our museums)
>
> The system is designed to present collections in response to our current
> interpretation of how you use it. Ie. How engaged you are with what you're
> seeing. It currently exposes 32,000 records.
>
> It is not intended to replace traditional catalogue/text search (this system
> is also being relaunched very soon). It should complement it and provide a
> simple alternative for anyone without the skills or inclination for doing
> this.
>
> We're still working on a software development kit. The plan is that any
> museum/archive/etc who wants to use it for their collection can adopt it
> relatively easily. I can share more as and when for anyone interested.
>
> Any comments/questions/bugs spotted, feel free email me away from the list!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
>
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