Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

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American Library Association, 2002 - 117 pages
It's no secret that well-executed exhibits in libraries and museums can make attendance numbers skyrocket. Dynamic exhibits not only provide information and entertainment for your existing customers, but they are also opportunities to reach out to new customers and to widen your market. A great exhibit can be the hook that brings people in the door for the first time. Creating a Winning Online Exhibition will help you to do just that - conceive, design, and execute a compelling online exhibition. Different than a digital collection, an online exhibition is a selective presentation of objects organized around a thematic and narrative structure. Digital librarian Martin Kalfatovic takes you through the process of developing an exhibit that will attract users, increase your visibility, and showcase your collection and services. With case studies of successful online exhibitions, sample artwork and screen shots, up-to-date information on mark-up languages such as HTML and XML, and discussion of online databases and software programs, you will be equipped with all you need to pull off a winning exhibition. Also included are helpful samples of: * Project proposals * Exhibition scripts *
 

Contents

Online Exhibitions versus Digital Collections
1
The Idea
9
Executing the Exhibition Idea
20
The Staff
39
Technical Issues Digitizing
44
Technical Issues Markup Languages
54
Technical Issues Programming Scripting Databases and Accessibility
63
Design
72
Sample Online Exhibition Proposal
98
Sample Exhibition Script
100
Guidelines for Reproducing Works from Exhibition Websites
103
Suggested Database Structure for Online Exhibitions
105
Timeline for Contracted Online Exhibitions
107
Dublin Core Metadata of an Online Exhibition
108
The Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards
109
Bibliography of Exhibitions Gallery and Virtual
111

Online Exhibitions Case Studies and Awards
88
Conclusion Online With the Show
96

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