Hi Phyllis,
Lots of interesting examples you're collecting!
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has recently launched some updates and extensions to its web presence that you may find interesting. It is not a single, stand-alone immersive/interactive site, but continuing our shared vision of a rich discovery ecosystem that is, in its own way, immersive. The aim is to provide entry points that prompt explorations and 'aha' insights.
The Collections Online site (https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/) integrates the various collections: art (from O'Keeffe and others), archives, personal library, personal belongings, and thousands of people/organizations connected with O'Keeffe. Images are all very high resolution with deep zoom, using IIIF. All pages in the collections site provide relationship connections among the different assets – it is particularly interesting to traverse from an artwork to correspondence from the same period, often about that work, then traverse to the people involved with her at that time. All the data is available for each record, and overall as a linked data download.
A recent addition is a complete exhibition history from 1915. Individual exhibitions include publications and archival materials. The exhibition histories include all the artworks from each exhibition – for artworks held by other institutions, each one links out to that institution's object page, extending exploration further to over 100 institutions.
You will see in some relationships a "Mentioned In" section. This is a new feature, with an inaugural digital publication, Exhibiting O'Keeffe. All the artworks, archives, exhibitions and people/organizations in the publication link back to the collection records. There is also a Data Index in the publication that links entities to mentions in each chapter and to their records in the collections site. This cross-referencing will be expanded over time for other publications and interpretive materials.
We are always interested in feedback and understanding how the site is used.
I hope this is useful! Duane
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Duane Degler
Design for Context
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-13-2023 02:02 PM
From: Phyllis Hecht
Subject: Innovative Online Museum Experiences
Hello all,
I'm doing research on current online museum experiences and would love to hear of any particularly innovative immersive or interactive exhibition/educational/other online museum experiences that you have created/encountered recently.
Thanks so much! I look forward to your input.
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Phyllis Hecht
Washington, DC
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