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