The site of the National Museum of Science and Industry entitled
INGENIOUS available through
<www.ingenious.org.uk> connects about 50,000 images from the Museum's
collections to narratives and interpretation, starting with laypeople's
concerns and interests.
The following paragraph expresses the pride of the director of a project
to which many people committed their souls, imagination and all their
energy for several years.
It is based on careful audience research and has won several awards
including Association of Online Publishers best new launch 2004. In the
last year it has received 1.25 million visitors. I hope you do find it
inspirational.
Robert Bud
Project director, Ingenious
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Tony Crockford
Sent: 27 September 2007 10:36
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Subject: OFF LIST: Re: Inspirational Archives
On 27 Sep 2007, at 02:15, Ray Shah wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> (Apologies for duplication MCN/MCG subscribers)
>
> I am hoping you can help me find what I would in short describe as an
> inspirational (digital) archive. Models for us to follow.
>
> I am referring to the kind of resource that will facilitate both
> novice and
> expert users in discovering resources. Too often, I have seen
> archives rely
> on in-depth knowledge on the part of the user, to come up with
> precise terms
> that happen to coincide with keywords or descriptions. I understand
> taxonomy
> and tagging have roles to play that can help here, but what's being
> used to
> good effect now?
>
> Furthermore, the resource should allow browsing as a way of
> discovering/honing-in on areas of interest.
www.torbytes.com was a project we did a while back that never got
fully fleshed out with content (and has broken a bit since they took
it back in-house)
since then we have further developed the software, but the principle
is the same. A content management system that handles all sorts of
digitised images (and other elements), multiple author
interpretations with editorial control, a bespoke script that
produces a website (for Intranet, kiosk or internet use), a search
engine (results are broken on the torbytes site) and a heirarchical
browse by theme layout.
we're gearing up to launch Xebitor, via gatewaytothepast.com and for
beta testing we're planning to offer a number of free systems to
social history/friends of the museum groups with interesting image
collections.
let me know if you're interested in exploring this possibility.
Kind regards
Tony
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Tony Crockford
Development Director
Xebit Ltd
http://www.xebit.net
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