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
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From: Museums Computer Group on behalf of Phil Blume
Sent: Fri 12/4/2015 5:47 PM
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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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