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Narratives

• Online database leads to possibility of harvesting narratives to OPAC. Web Development wants more links to individual pages increase ranking and stats

• Registration asked to open module take control of implementing the project.

• However the essential ingredient is still missing – content• Kimberley works with CHDC content and this leads to

curatorial re-appraising not only delivery but creation of content.

• Curatorial in the pilots seat – demand for content increases, how to do it efficiently using current resources?

Narratives

• Curatorial is perfectly placed to use narratives to illustrate the importance of content creation in running all areas of museum business.

• However not alone – other content creators education, web services, d-hub, image resources all of whom have interest in narratives

• However I would argue that of all of these curatorial is best placed to set up systems for creation of content and for ensuring that content finds its way into KEMu and is edited.

Content using exhibition models

• Production Line• Adversarial, competing for limited delivery points. Creation

sectioned curatorially.• Workflow heavily divided, points of delivery heavily demarcated• Focus on end product – the physical exhibition• Production values – high end labour intensive• On-line content focussed on exhibition webs• Research not published no provision for footnotes etc• No legacy provisions for content harvesting

• Importance of scholarship to museum and curatorial work. Preservation without scholarship is nostalgia: Lonnie Bunch

Smithsonian. How much scholarship attached to Collection objects?

Content new curatorial model

• Not narrative content, web content, exhibition content – it is all museum content and can be redirected to different outcomes

• Collegial project groups, • Focus on delivery strategies• Production values – grassroots, open delivery• Content integrated into KEMu and online delivery• Research publication encouraged on-line • Dovetail with other delivery areas• Projects subject as well as object driven• Rapid response to issues

Narrative model suggested by Image Services and Registration

KEMu Object Record Janssen apparatus

Schroeder & SonsOptical Instrument makers

The 1874 Transit of Venus

Sydney Observatory 1858-1926

Zeiss Glass Company

KEMu Object Record Schroeder micrometer

KEMu Object Record Troughton telescope.

KEMu Object Record Schroeder telescope.

Schroeder telescope

Sydney Observatory telescopes booklet pdf



Optical Glass manufactureThe 1874 Transit

of Venus

Architecture in C19th Sydney

Parramatta Observatory

Facsimile pdf of the original 1892 publication

Zeiss Glass Company

Photographic cameras

Optical Glass manufacture

Narrative model suggested by Curatorial

• Multiple Outcomes.

• Significance, history notes, production etc compromised by opening up of KEMu fields in OPAC

• Significance statements, history and production notes rather than end results instead become our initial building blocks.

• Working from a fully referenced and footnoted word document

• Combination of text and images in a variety of ways

• Grassroots

• This kind of publication also provides a printer friendly version not currently available via either OPAC or the website. It also eliminates much of the repetition which occurs in KEMu records.

• Constructing narratives from the bottom up provides an alternative avenue for the use of content uncovered as a part of the research process. This would allow research publications, FACs sheets, facsimiles of letters books etc., images publications be built in as a part of the process.

Static web pages on PHM Web Site

Search option only on Hedda Morrison Pages

Links to individual pages originally set up as narratives

Dynamic content currently running on OPAC

Scalable image of object.

Links to other object listed with the same subject in KEMu

Links to objects in same catagory

Scalable image from out of copyright publication. Not an object image

List of linked themes. Changes as added to by variety of content creators in the museum

Pdf publication

Sydney Observatory dynamic web pages on PHM web site

Broad Narrative theme or story.

• Insertion of narrative themes at the object level addresses some these issues.

• Dynamic links to a variety of media.• Links created between a variety of content creators. • Non hierarchical, quick and efficient

Themed solution for dynamic web content creation for OPAC

Significance and object statements reformatted to make extended publication

Digital camera used to take photo from out of copyright book.

Themes currently running on OPAC

Copyright cleared images for non collection sources

Links to themes not necessarily lined to objects

Links to objects with good associated data, sig, history photos etc

• Heterarchical narratives ensure a large part of the content resides within KEMu and OPAC and is not a separate resource such as the search specific Hedda Morrison pages.

• Modular nature of heterarchical narratives allows curators to use already created narratives when linking objects.

• Templates for creating narratives allow curators to control content delivery and schedule and update content as research completed. It is not reliant on physical exhibition development.

Creating a narrative

• Hierarchical ‘Hedda’• Master and sub narratives

• Heterarchical ‘TAM Collection Narratives GB’

• Materials Comb Manufacture• Materials Combs


• Step One• Go to file new• Enter details: date, purpose, name and into the

narrative tab add text and f needed images• Under objects tab create a list of objects you

want to link to the narrative and save or if there are no objects save the narrative with the appropriate name.


• Step Two• Link the narrative to associated narratives

through the hierarchy tab and create new link to the appropriately named narrative.

• Repeat as necessary

Exhibition Models• Virtual Museum : to implement• Team module; Tam non departmental, good track record of outcomes• Grassroots; staff trained in broad range of area, writing, editing for

publication online, video, interviewing, Photoshop• Linked to collection strengths; project based modular outcomes• Editorial; (preferred from within team to aid the delivery process) peer

review essential to whole process and establishing standards• Powerhouse branded research publications; provide outlet for research,

opportunity to offer scholarships for content writers, Issn to ensure lodged with national libraries, Powerhouse keeps control of information written by staff, built into workflow of virtual museum, basis for exhibition and briefs, footnoted documents can enable reference from future enquiries, basis for FAQ sheets, Tours etc

• Delivery of multiple modules; POD, VOD, publication, You Tube, narratives, online publications, facsimiles, catalogues, Flicker, Picture Australia

• Delivery costs; minimised• Legacy issues and succession planning built into harvesting of data already

produced by Powerhouse

Exhibition Models• Virtual Museum : Questions• Model should start with curatorial as creators of content modules this then

worked on with designers, education, exhibitions A/V etc• Current TAM model of work favour object focus is Objects need

preservation and registration first then content and significance last in the food chain.

• Reality many objects have been sitting in collections and will continue to be ok if stored as currently. however if photos and content created about them this could make them accessible to public. Lower costs associated with this than with storage & preservation.

• Very few likely to get to exhibition, large part of collection not focussed on• Team access to hardware and software already started to be addressed

within TAM as part of training and developing CHDC and other TAM projects.

• Photography essential to the process

Themes currently running on OPAC

Copyright cleared images for non collection sources

Links to themes not necessarily lined to objects

Links to objects with good associated data, sig, history photos etc

Theme title

Objects grouped under this theme which link to their individual records and significance statements

Problems with exhibition focus on web content creation

• Mainly limited to curatorial defined themes often relating to developed exhibitions.

• Content needs to be developed in conjunction with specialists, IT, web developers etc.

• Unique linking structure. • Resource hungry.• Navigation and experience controlled by content

developer not the user.• Legacy issues not addressed as not embedded in KEMu

• Searches based on subject searches through external engines such as Google which leads users to individual objects in OPAC, not stories.

• Currently links from these objects to other objects in the collection are based on KEMu category fields and user tags.

• Currently the information associated with these links is uncontrolled and quality of documentation such as significance statements and photographs varies considerably.

• No provision for printing material on collections of objects

Problems with dynamic web content creation for OPAC

Themed Narratives

KEMu Object Record Schroeder telescope.

Themed Narratives

Schroeder telescope


Themed Narratives

Schroeder telescope




Optical Glass manufactureThe 1874 Transit

of Venus

Architecture in C19th Sydney

Parramatta Observatory

Facsimile pdf of the original 1892 publication

Zeiss Glass Company

Photographic cameras


Two web content models

Static/Hierarchical


Troughton & Simms instrument Makers

The Mapping the Stars Project

The Schroeder Telescope

The Transit of Venus

Astronomy and Photography


Troughton & Simms instrument Makers

The Mapping the Stars Project


The Transit of Venus

Astronomy and Photography

Schroeder telescope

Dynamic/Heterarchical

• Setting up procedures.• Talking to people to define a list of potential

outcomes from content creation • Testing stuff; putting it up and seeing what works• Working on editorial processes and upgrading

skills• Looking at legacy issues, what content have we

already developed that we could harvest • Seeing how can we involve more people in the

process.

At the moment we are ….

• Content used to group like objects and objects with high levels of documentation.

• Includes research material from exhibition briefs or content difficult to include in significance statements.

• Objects or narratives linked to a wide range of content, such as pdf’s, audio and video.

• User defined experience• Modular content for multiple uses by museum

staff and the public.• Legacy issues are addressed.

Benefits of dynamic web content creation

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