Hi everyone
Not sure if there's a current published list of good examples of what I think you're describing, Stephen. Have you nosed around the web for stuff about 'generous interfaces'? I've been taking lots of inspiration from this idea lately, so worth having a bit of a look if you haven't already.
Wellcome Library did a piece of R&D work in 2015 with Good, Form & Spectacle on a collections browser for digitised and analogue stuff. It started out as What's In the Library? (http://whatsinthelibrary.com) (an exploratory project) and then we turned it into https://alpha.wellcomelibrary.org/.*
Our intention was to open up access to the collections, and information about the collections, to non-experts who may not otherwise know what to search. We are in the very early stages of thinking about extending this approach - showing the things, providing multiple access points for lateral browse, etc - to our whole collection: books, archives, film and video, manuscripts, artworks, and so on. Search is going to be a massive part of this redevelopment. We should share notes!
Cheers
Jenn
*if anyone's going to be at the DLF Forum in Milwaukee in November, I'll be talking about Alpha there.
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Product Manager
Wellcome Collection
T: +44 (0) 20 7611 8746
@ExploreWellcome
@wellcomelibrary
Wellcome Trust
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Subject: [MCG] Digital collections search and access: best in breed?
Hi everyone,
At the BFI we're starting work on a revamp of an internal platform for collections search and access, for researchers and casual users on premises.
The aim is to develop something to achieve two things:
1. Search, browse and display of all collections where digital media is available (film and tv moving Image, stills, posters, designs, press cuttings, library assets, documents, etc).
A 100% model: if it's digitised or acquired digital, it's included. So lots of things: probably > 1 million at launch, and daily growing.
Key access points will be work (film or tv prog), person or organisation (creator, contributor e.g. Director, writer, designer, correspondent), genre, subject, geo location.
2. In parallel, ideally in the same application, a 'curated' or 'programmed' set, which draws on the mass of digital collections above, but shapes them into considered collections, combining multiple types in a single experience (film, stills, letters, designs), with narrative, editorial, interpretation, maybe voice or video from Curators to add value, etc
We'd like to take inspiration from peers who are doing similar, of either type, or both together. So I'm really interested to learn if there is somewhere already a list of innovative, exciting or just solid digital collections access platforms which do one or both of those things above. Please direct me to that list!
If there is not such a list, instead I'd just love to hear your specific examples of where in the collections world digital access is being done well. Maybe I could compile the list for reference.
All the best,
Stephen
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