online library exhibitions at state library of victoria

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Online exhibitions:State Library of Victoria

Kelly GardinerWeb Services Manager




slv21 online and onsite

• Become a library of the 21st century

• Digitise 75% of unique Victorian collections

• More resources for teachers and schools

• Major exhibitions onsite – international, touring and specifically showcasing Victorian collections

• Provide greater access for Victorians to SLV collections, using online delivery (via rebuilt web sites, catalogue, digital storage, direct image delivery, special online projects, access to electronic databases)




Online exhibitions can:

• Provide glimpses of real world exhibitions to users

• Find new audiences

• Deliver marketing and promotional benefits

• Provide new, more intimate ways for people to engage with collections – and take many forms

• Be a whole lot faster than real world exhibitions

• Bring together present and historical concepts

• Showcase items not normally on display – too fragile or too many – or reveal hidden treasures




Support for library exhibitions

• Online catalogues

• User generated content (blogs, chat, competitions)

• Multimedia or “interactives”

• Audio tours and talks

• Teachers’ materials

• Event details, catalogue links, contextual information

• Stay online as resource for schools (so far) – part of SLV history




The Medieval Imagination

• Major international exhibition

• Season of events and conference

• High-profile marketing and PR but low-profile online

Available online are:

• Audio tours and recorded events

• Schools resource kit

• Videos

• Image gallery




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Mirror of the World online

• Permanent exhibition in Dome Galleries

• Focus on the history of the book

• International appeal

Major project for 2007 with slv21 funds (built in-house)

• Followed exhibition themes

• Features items not now on display

• Allowed new views (3D) of objects

• Provides textual, audio, video and visual context




What does it take? • Scanning studio staff• Bookeye scanners• Cataloguers• Collection specialists• Conservation &

preservation • Designer• Developers• User Experience

Specialist• Content producers• Project managers

• Serena Collage (CMS)• Adobe CS3 (Flash)• Wordpress (Blogs)• PHP and Perl• Javascript• MySQL and Oracle• Voyager catalogue• Digitool digital object

management system




Or…

• Time to think, research and plan

• Scanning/photo equipment

• Solid metadata

• People with time, skills

• Free blogging (eg Wordpress) or content management software (eg Drupal, Joomla)

• Free photo site account (eg Flickr), or image gallery software (eg Coppermine or any good web album), or digital management system (eg Greenstone)




Considerations:

• Define the audience - what do they want and need?

• Will it provide genuine benefit or extra value to them?

• Can you collaborate with others?

• Can you use or integrate existing web services?

• What’s it worth to you? (What will it really cost?)

• Is your metadata up to the task?

• How will you promote it? How will people find it?

• Can you maintain and enhance a gallery after launch?




• www.slv.vic.gov.au• www.mirroroftheworld.com.au• www.zoomify.com• beyondbrownpaper.plymouth.edu/• www.shorpy.com/• flickr.com• wordpress.com• www.coppermine-gallery.net • www.greenstone.org

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