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Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums

Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums. Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums. Digital & New Media at Glasgow Museums. Social Media Management Riverside Kelvin Hall Project Collections Navigator Glasgow Life Photo Library. Digital & New Media – Overview.

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Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums

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  1. Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums • Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums

  2. Digital & New Media at Glasgow Museums Social Media Management Riverside Kelvin Hall Project Collections Navigator Glasgow Life Photo Library

  3. Digital & New Media – Overview Social Media Management

  4. Digital & New Media – Overview Social Media Management Riverside

  5. DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA AT GLASGOW MUSEUMS •Digital as primary form of interpretation•All digital interpretation is for everyone - but every display has a target audience•All address the physical needs preferred learning styles of different audiences •Building on best practice and prototyping•Pushing the boundaries of how digital interpretation is used in museums

  6. RIVERSIDE MUSEUM • Winner: European Museum of the Year 2013 • Winner: Best Science, Technical, Industrial Museum – European Museum Academy, • Micheletti Award 2012 • Winner: Best Customer Experience – Scottish Digital Business Awards 2012 • Winner: Best Engineering Design – Scottish Design Awards 2012

  7. DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - PHILOSOPHY • An object-based, visitor-centred, interdisciplinary, storytelling museum service. • Using digital to engage people’s imaginations & intellects. • Telling the stories that our objects carry. • To think about the past, about issues, to empathize with people different to themselves.

  8. DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION • Primary interpretive types: • Touch interfaces • eStorybooks • Games • Video • Large scale ‘shows’ • Mobile

  9. DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION • Primary interpretive types: • Touch interfaces • eStorybooks • Games • Video • Large scale ‘shows’ • Mobile

  10. Story Player – CMS • Template based CMS • Fully managed and updated in-house • Full suite of staff trained in use • Currently being updated • Features in Kelvin Hall proposal

  11. Digital & New Media – Overview Social Media Management Riverside Kelvin Hall Project

  12. Kelvin Hall Project

  13. Kelvin Hall Project • This project involves the innovative partnership use of a landmark building to create a cultural hub for collections storage, teaching and learning, research and public orientation and engagement, combined with a sports and leisure facility • It aims to bring together the world class collections of the city and university of Glasgow and the national Scottish Screen Archive to create a single cultural and intellectual resource for the public, locally and globally

  14. Digital & New Media – Overview Social Media Management Riverside Kelvin Hall Project Collections Navigator

  15. Collections Navigator Phase 2 • User friendly searching • Currently the Navigator only searches within selected fields on Mimsy XG and does not search for object-based information such as maker; culture; materials; credit line. This will be updated within development for KH • December 2013 to March 2014

  16. Collections Navigator Development Phase 3 • Mapping and Aggregating • The ability to search Collection Descriptions with more familiar geographical references such as postcodes • The addition of a map-based interface to the Collections Navigator functionality • The ability to publish the Collections Navigator records through other aggregating services, such as PastMap and GoogleMaps • The ability to cross-search Glasgow Museums’ Collection Descriptions with Glasgow City Archives’ Archival Collection Descriptions

  17. Digital & New Media – Overview Social Media Management Riverside Kelvin Hall Project Collections Navigator Glasgow Life Photo Library

  18. GLASGOW LIFE - DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – PHOTO LIBRARY. Launching, January 2014 The Glasgow Life Photo Library holds images from the unique collections of Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Libraries. With paintings from all the major European schools - including Old Masters, French Impressionists, Glasgow Boys (and Girls) and the pre-Raphaelites - to social history images and historic photographs of shipbuilding on the Clyde, we offer opportunities to add a fresh look to your product range, publication, project or campaign.

  19. Going Forward • Company investment in our Digital development • Continue to invest in innovations that improve products and services • Expansion of digital interpretive types across temp exhibitions and online • Capital Projects

  20. Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums • Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums

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