Since my last entry five weeks ago, I\u2019ve been consumed by digitising the Year files and am glad to say I\u2019m almost up to 1978. However, this has been to the exclusion of most other things, so today I decided to release my brain a little and explore what museums have been doing on the net. It was a Guardian article on Gallery websites on 09Apr2013 that prompted me, and I\u2019m very glad that I followed it up. Museums and Galleries have cottoned on in a big way that the net is another, most important, way to reach their audience. And they are exploring a variety of different ways of doing so. I was impressed by the ability to view, full screen, a huge selection of the Tate\u2019s painting; by the Louvre\u2019s simple and brief explanation of paintings, by a miniature avatar man (and by the fact that it was all in English); and by the Taipei\u2019s National Palace Museum\u2019s 3D displays of pottery which you can turn round and upside down at will. I\u2019ve come away thinking that the ability to enlarge pictures and objects really makes a difference, and that it\u2019s important not to overface the viewer with too much at once \u2013 give a little AND let the viewer seek more seems to work very well. \u00a0I have perceived that, once I\u2019ve finished digitising all these year files \u2013 and family photos \u2013 and the remainder of the work-related files \u2013 once all that\u2019s done, the real fun of exploring how to make it all come to life will begin. This initial exploration of some museums and galleries will feed my thinking for how to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since my last entry five weeks ago, I\u2019ve been consumed by digitising the Year files and am glad to say I\u2019m almost up to 1978. However, this has been to the exclusion of most other things, so today I decided … Continue reading