Online Exhibits and Collections Jenn Riley Digital Media Specialist IU Digital Library Program...

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Online Exhibits and Collections Jenn Riley Digital Media Specialist IU Digital Library Program [email protected]

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Page 1: Online Exhibits and Collections Jenn Riley Digital Media Specialist IU Digital Library Program jenlrile@indiana.edu.

Online Exhibits and Collections

Jenn RileyDigital Media SpecialistIU Digital Library [email protected]

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Exhibits vs. Collections

Exhibits Selected items displayed Interpretation fundamentally linked with

presentation Museum aesthetic

Collections Complete logical groupings displayed Interpretation presented separately Library aesthetic

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Exhibit – Mystic Seaport

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Collection – Cushman (IU)

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Good practices

Well-defined target users Complete, accurate description Logical organization Digital objects in appropriate formats Good web design Professional interpretation

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Well-defined target users

Guides all other decisions

Making of America Reciprocal Net Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection

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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

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Logical organization

Good Cuban Heritage Collection Sue at the Field Museum

Not so good Frank M. Hohenberger

Photograph Collection City Engineer Photograph Collection

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Digital objects in appropriate formats

Audio, video, maps very difficult Good

Eighteenth-century Fiction Not so good

Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, PA

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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

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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

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Bottom line

Balance marketing with content Select and present for your users Share your important and unique

collections with the world!

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