Thanks John -- that's a really great list & some interesting examples. Just to add to the meta-thinking category, Anna Faherty (the author of The Collectors digital story) and I have written a paper for this year's Museums and the Web reflecting on the role of storytelling in 'big and slow' digital experiences, using Digital Stories as an example, including some of the results of our evaluation:
http://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/big-and-slow-adventures-in-digital-storytelling/
Danny
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Objects / stories / narratives
Hi Mike
This is something I am really interested in too. It feels especially important for history/ethnographic collections where the individual objects are not the centre of the experience (unlike in an art museum) but where groupings of objects can tell a story that gives them meanings and explains their significance perhaps better than a "about this object" text in an online collection interface.
I don't think that there are lots of great examples in the museum sector (the Wellcome work is certainly v good). Journalism is really starting to explore storytelling in interesting multimedia ways. I guess the best/first example is Snowfall:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
But there are dozens of others which someone is kindly documenting in this list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NnTg-KfmEpWeLtCm7zMK-THWyzHIDdaeWaoYtQMAyPQ/edit#gid=0
A few museum examples which are interesting on one way or another though not really like the Wellcome stories:
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150430-rosetta-the-whole-story/index.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians
http://ingenious.org.uk/Read/
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/outside-the-spacecraft/online/
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/online_science/explore_our_collections/stories <- this thing has some terrible performance issues so go to load the page and then go and make a cuppa...
Here are a few related articles on this subject which are with a read:
http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-whole-story-and-then-some-digital-storytelling-in-evolving-museum-practice/
https://storytellinginthedigitalage.wordpress.com
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/the-future-of-the-feature-breaking-out-of-templates-to-build-customized-reading-experiences/
http://www.trevorowens.org/2014/02/a-draft-style-guide-for-digital-collection-hypertexts/
http://alistapart.com/article/building-nonlinear-narratives-for-the-web
John
PS. See also this nice list: https://hackpad.com/Interactive-Storytelling-pPjlGpwaNh6
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