Hi Joy,
You appear to have our V&A Apps page listed correctly
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/v/apps/ , thanks.
In general I'd say the trend is away from apps and towards native web
functionality. It is useful to look at digital service development and
delivery options as being simply about the experiences you wish to give
people and how well you can integrate them overall with all your
cultural offers to them. Not simple by any means, but it is helpful to
see this more as developing an evolving overall system than a bunch of
one-off products. This will make updating your list tricky I suspect :)
On this note, you may notice that the first app listed, the V&A
Interactive Map is not an app at all. It is a touch-enabled web page
designed to be used with the fingers on a tablet for playful exploration
of the V&A. Because it is NOT an app, it can re-use constantly updated
data from our internal collections and events databases using simple web
protocols. It is simply a new extension of the V&A's knowledge and
events evolved to give people the visual and touch experience they have
come to expect 3 years after the iPad changed the way people access the
web.
Andrew
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:27:18 +0000
From: Joy Hooper <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Where have all the apps gone?
Dear all, over the past few weeks I have been compiling a list of apps
developed by UK cultural institutions in a Google doc, which is
accessible for all to view. I have included all the relevant apps that
have been shared in response to Jo Cutting’s call and added a few more
of my own. The document is based around the top most visited
institutions in the UK, but I have also included several other examples,
particularly from the North West.
Here’s the link: bit.ly/1jQF1qA
Feel free to post any additional apps and I’ll add them to this list.
I’m also happy to provide access for those who would like to update
this document themselves.
This is just a starting point to gage interest, but it is also a
serious attempt to find out whether the UK cultural sector has, or is
developing a solution that makes it easy to locate, share and repurpose
museum apps that are already out there. There is a risk that we reinvent
the wheel and worst still, miss opportunities to build on the ideas and
innovation of others. Can anyone shed light on this?
Thanks,
Joy
Andrew Lewis
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