Features of a Supplementary Virtual Exhibit

Thu Oct 25 09:10:12 EDT 2012

After attending a conference last year on the Digital Humanities, I learned about Omeka (http://omeka.org/).  I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.  We used it in collaboration with our history department and temporarily with the archives.  Some people either hate it or love it.  The history department used Omeka to supplement exhibitions virtually and to create their own digital exhibit as part of a semester-long project.  It might be an interesting alternative to LibGuides.

Best,
Zach

Zach Newell | Humanities Librarian | *: 978.542.7406
Salem State University Library | 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970

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I think we'd be interested in exploring a resource like this too. The city has an Arts dept that is part of the library and it think it would be terrific to be able to take the wonderful displays we have into a virtual space. We also have a terrific local history library that would like to put on more public displays. So Micheal, count me in.

Lisa

Lisa Holmberg
Web Services Specialist
Boulder Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
303.441.3472
holmbergl at boulderlibrary.org<mailto:holmbergl at boulderlibrary.org>

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Hi Teresa,

Linking from the v. exhibit to the library's collection is such a good idea and makes so much sense (because, you know, libraries ...). I imagine that if there was a short blurb about, let's say, George Washington's limited edition Harry Potter [resulting from a brief time warp during the American revolution], we make it so that users can put holds on related material.

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These are excellent questions.  I'm glad you brought up this topic because I have been thinking about the same thing.  My idea, though, was to have a Libguide accompany a physical exhibit so that people at a distance could experience it.  Our exhibit would have books that could be requested online via the Libguide links and photographs of the other items in the exhibit.

However, your idea of having Augmented Reality of some sort in the physical exhibit is an interesting one and I am eager to read the responses of others on the list.

Thanks.

Teresa Ashley
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu<mailto:mschofield at nova.edu>> wrote:
Morning everyone,

Our library has a large second-floor gallery and we're lucky enough to be able to host some really neat exhibits-sometimes art, sometimes historical-and I'm starting to think it would be cool to have a supplementary web component. We've a lot of distance users who likely won't cross the state to duck in, but if they're curious they might click through. I say supplementary because I don't want to volunteer to curate a standalone exhibit, but I'm thinking in terms of browsing or accessing further information about a specific [artifact] in the exhibit.

What I want to do is essentially jury-rig reveal.js (an HTML Slide Deck [http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/]) to ... I don't know yet, that's why I'm approaching the hive : ). You've been to museums that link QR Codes to audio-clips. What features do you appreciate in such a component? I'm also curious about what features would be really cool if you could pull them off.

Some of my ideas:

1.       Doctor revealJS because it is a feature-rich, swipe-friendly HTML deck that works just as well on phones as on desktops. Additionally, I'm only interested in working with the web - nothing native.

2.       QR Codes [although I kind of hate them ... ] in the exhibit link to specific pages with further reading and an audio description.

3.       Option to auto-scroll through slides / stream all the audio as a walkthrough [e.g., a podcast].

4.       One thought is that instead of a specific exhibit, you could use it as a self-guided tour of your building, potentially tied-in with Google Maps Interior / etc.

Just brainstorming. I plan to do something locally, but if anyone is interested in collaborating on additional museum/library/tour-oriented features for RevealJS, perhaps we can make a public fork on github and go to town. Let me know.

Michael Schofield(@nova.edu<http://nova.edu>) | Web Services Librarian | (954) 262-4536<tel:%28954%29%20262-4536>
Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center

Hi! Hit me up any time, but I'd really appreciate it if you report broken links, bugs, your meeting minutes, or request an awesome web app over on the Library Web Services<http://staff.library.nova.edu/pm> site.

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