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Online Exhibits and Collections
Jenn RileyDigital Media SpecialistIU Digital Library [email protected]
Exhibits vs. Collections
Exhibits Selected items displayed Interpretation fundamentally linked with
presentation Museum aesthetic
Collections Complete logical groupings displayed Interpretation presented separately Library aesthetic
Exhibit – Mystic Seaport
Collection – Cushman (IU)
Good practices
Well-defined target users Complete, accurate description Logical organization Digital objects in appropriate formats Good web design Professional interpretation
Well-defined target users
Guides all other decisions
Making of America Reciprocal Net Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
Complete, accurate description
Good Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collecti
on Online Archive of California Getty Online Collections
Not so good Seattle Star Collection Early Las Vegas
Logical organization
Good Cuban Heritage Collection Sue at the Field Museum
Not so good Frank M. Hohenberger
Photograph Collection City Engineer Photograph Collection
Digital objects in appropriate formats
Audio, video, maps very difficult Good
Eighteenth-century Fiction Not so good
Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, PA
Good web design
VERY subjective Good (by some standard!)
British Museum Picture Australia’s Picture Trails
Not so good (by some standard!) American Memory Artists of Brücke Einstein Archives Online
Professional interpretation
Good U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collecti
on American Memory Learning Page
Not so good Museum of the City of San Francisco James Joyce Scholars’ Collection
Bottom line
Balance marketing with content Select and present for your users Share your important and unique
collections with the world!
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/l623fall2003/