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Contents
• Publishing collections• Publishing exhibitions• A new website and narratives• The Textile Gallery• What’s next and the future
What do users want?
• Research– Manchester Museums Unwrapped website
• Feedback - mostly informal– Stories not (just) objects– What’s on Show
• By room• By exhibition
– What does the Gallery look like? – Where to start? – Expectations
Starting with Narratives
• Bewilderment phase• Exhibitions
– Earlier experience with pdfs– Opportunity to publish stories - 100 collection
exhibitions over 12 years - DCF project– Archiving research, integrating with KE EMu– Value for museology students
• Then biographies– Watercolour artists - loaded via a script
The Whitworth’s website
• http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
• Publishing– Objects and related multimedia– Exhibitions– Narratives
A new website and narratives
• Value from KE EMu– Easy to link to objects– And multimedia– Arrange in hierarchy– Updates easier than using the cms
• New website– Browsing not just searching– Collection themes - collection level information– Photo history of the building– Technical terms– Press releases– http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
The Textile Gallery - Questions
• Could the interpretation in the display be replicated using KE EMu?
• Not strictly an exhibition as objects change
• Complement limited information in room
Content
• Introduction to the collection• Text panels for the themed
twelve cases• Labels for the objects, linked
to detailed catalogue information
• Technical terms, interviews with makers
Implementation
• Master narratives for gallery– Introduction to textiles at the Whitworth– Information on the display
• Sub-narratives for the cases• Sub-narratives for the labels, linked to catalogue
information• Audio/Video as multimedia, linked to University’s
streaming server• http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth/exhibitions/byroom/gallery1-text
ilegallery
Public computers and paper
• On-line in the gallery• Fact files, laminates
– produced from KE EMu using Crystal Reports
Next with narratives
• School sessions– Pre-visit– Post-visit
• Searching narratives and objects, offering both in results as ‘Spinning the Web’
• Joint narratives on Manchester Museums Unwrapped– Single theme, merged
narratives, different objects
• Reusing the portal?
Book-browsing
• Thomas Wardle pattern books– Starting point is ‘Spinning
the Web’– Reference to British Library
‘Turning the Page’; Amazon– Proposed solution
• No Flash• Use PHP tailored web
pages• Allow for different layouts -
cover, left, right page, page spread
• Use narratives to explain pages
Looking to the future?
• Web pages - better design!, improved functionality– Formatting in narratives eg bold, italic, hyperlinks– Supporting different learning styles
• Text v. Icons• Podcasts, interactivity
– Technical issues to overcome
• My EMu– Web 2.0 - Blogs, Flickr, Wikipedia– Users to write and submit their own stories– ‘Write your own label’
Thank you
Julian.Tomlin@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
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