Escaping search: generous interfaces for cultural collections

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Escaping search: Generous interfaces for cultural collections Ben Ennis Butler Monday, 20 May 13

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My slides from the Musuems Australia 2013 in conference in Canberra. View the interfaces in action at http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore More information about this work is in my Museums and the Web paper available here: http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/visual-exploration-of-australian-prints-and-printmaking/

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Escaping search:Generous interfaces for cultural collections

Ben Ennis Butler

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Enter your query... Search

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Open storage in V&A Ceramics room

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SFMOMA ArtScope: http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope/

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Walker Art Center collections: http://www.walkerart.org/collections

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Rijksmuseum: http://rijksmuseum.nl/

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Principles for Generous Interfaces

Show first, don’t ask

Provide rich overviews

Provide samples

Provide context

Share high quality content

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Explore Australian Prints + Printmaking: http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/

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Richard Tipping - Wrong Day (2004)

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Bea Maddock - Square (1972)

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Ben Ennis Butler@beneb

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Australian Prints + Printmakingprintsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore

Helen Wright - Sense and sensibility (1990)

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