Thanks to all of you who got back to me, there's lots of very helpful
and interesting stuff there.
Cheers,
Charlotte
On 04/12/2015 19:56, Alice Payne wrote:
> Hi Charlotte,
>
> I work for the Public Catalogue Foundation. If you are looking to carry out user testing on your website, I would highly recommend City University Interaction Lab. I have been working with them over the past two days, and it has been invaluable using their labs for user testing.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Alice
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group on behalf of Phil Blume
> Sent: Fri 12/4/2015 5:47 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Online museum catalogue design
>
> We made this one a few years ago for the Museum of Design in Plastics.
>
> www.modip.ac.uk
>
> The collection has >13,000 artefacts, organised in a three-level
> classification. The search uses Apache Solr to provide 9 filters.
>
> The artefact metadata and the classification categories are all hyperlinked
> back to the search results, so the collection can be sliced and diced in
> numerous different ways.
>
> Try it, it's pretty cool.
>
> Cheers, Phil
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4 December 2015 at 08:24, Lisa Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Charlotte
>> Dan Pemberton, Curator at Earth Science's Sedgwick Museum, is currently
>> involved with a project just like this, and may be able to advise.
>> I'm also his Computer Officer :O) though I have had little to do with the
>> project so far, but this will change as the server arrives in the next few
>> weeks and we work to get the whole thing installed and online.
>>
>> best wishes
>> Lisa
>>
>> On 03/12/2015 20:42, Charlotte Connelly wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've just joined the Polar Museum which has some dedicated funding to
>>> improve its online catalogue as part of a wider cataloguing project. I'm in
>>> the process of writing a brief for our prospective developers, and wondered
>>> whether anybody on the list has done any user testing or has experience of
>>> designing online objects catalogues that they would be kind enough to
>>> share. There's already a back end and API in place, so I'm mainly
>>> interested to hear your thoughts about user experience. I'd also be
>>> interested to know if you think there are particularly good examples of
>>> online catalogues out there.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Charlotte
>>>
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>> Lisa Chapman,
>> Computer Officer, Earth Sciences & Sedgwick Museum
>> Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)
>> University of Cambridge
>>
>> SPRI working hours:
>> Mon, Wed, Fri: 08.00 - 12.00
>> Tue: 08.00 - 11.30
>> Thurs: 13.30 - 16.30
>>
>> Sedgwick Museum working hours:
>> Tue: 13.30 - 16.30
>> Thur: 08.00 - 12.30
>>
>> Earth Sciences working hours:
>> Weds: 13.30 - 16.30
>> Fri: 13.30 - 16.00
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