RAMM's World Cultures Digital Initiative at Digital Exeter Launch May 2015
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The document discusses the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery's efforts to digitize their collections and make them available online. It describes how they transitioned from an internal collection database in 1998 called MOLLI to launching their World Cultures website in 2009. It also discusses how they identified priorities and kept the project on track using analytics, feedback, and agile project management tools like Trello to involve staff and achieve the funder's objectives on a limited budget. The end result was a successful online presence for the museum's collections at http://rammworldcultures.org.uk/.
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RAMM's World Cultures Digital Initiative at Digital Exeter Launch May 2015
- 1. World Cultures Digital Initiative from MOLLI to API Rick Lawrence Digital Media Officer Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery http://rammworldcultures.org.uk/
- 2. Why do museums like digital technologies?
- 3. Going beyond the tip of the collections iceberg
- 4. Museums and the F Word Museums and the F Word
- 5. Putting funding and aspiration into action To go from an internal collections database and galleries to an online presence Think first, agree aims, decide on resources, incorporate into work plan, then act!
- 6. Using past work and experience From MOLLI in 1998 to World Cultures online 2009
- 7. What did we do next? Used analytics, feedback, funder’s objectives and our resources to create a list of priorities
- 8. Keep it on track ... and keep your people involved UAT – we used Trello https://trello.com/
- 9. Putting it all together
- 10. Outcome and any questions? http://rammworldcultures.org.uk/
Notas do Editor
- Hello Talking about our World Cultures collection’s and its new website Before getting into that a brief mention of why museums use digital technologies
- We love visitors and communicating with them Providing information about our collections is a key part of why we work in museums – not just a love of old stuff Digital lets us tell stories and allows visitors to respond
- Nearly all museums only have a fraction of their collection on display Most in store Space and conservation limit displays Digital opens the store to everyone with an Internet connection
- Rosy glow around making information available but what we can do is limited by the F word – Funding All museums are limited by their funding Mix of sources RAMM LA and ACE plus specific grants Other sources donations, fundraising, philanthropy All funding applications competitive including ACE
- Use analytics, feedback, funder’s objectives and our resources to create a list of priorities
- Thinking and doing Practical approach took us from Museum Open Learning Initiative in 1998 using as many new technologies as possible to a revamped website in2009 2009 version stripped out non-working elements, updated content but mainly translated website into RAMM look and feel
- 2014 Designation funding focussed on needs of collection and website Website – better object management – more than a slideshow Themes – drop dated and unused ones More focus on galleries and collection Join research to RAMM research collection Blog for curator to keep visitors updated on Designation project and other collections activities Reality meant limited budget so WordPress, collections plugin and collections API
- Grabbed opportunity to develop uniform look and feel for RAMM sub sites Chose developer who had museum and collection API experience ie spoke our language and knew of pitfalls Limited budget so made it clear what was expected from all staff involved Limited time period so focussed attention User Acceptance Testing – recommended by Thirty8 Digital of Bude we used Trello
- Challenges: We used our main online collections database’s API to import object information, images and categories into the new website. We were pleased how well this worked although getting the categories right was more of a challenge Getting the volume of content into place for the deadline despite the themes being reduced IE 11
- Result was site visits rose from a couple of hundred to 3K in first month Positive feedback and curator able to update site Any Qs?