Flash presentation at a workshop for 'Scotland's National Collections and the Digital Humanities,' a knowledge-exchange project hosted at the University of Edinburgh. 14 Feb. 2014. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/archives-now/

1. • John Ferry, Digital & New Media Manager, Glasgow Museums
Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums

2. 1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
5 Glasgow Life Photo Library
Digital & New Media at Glasgow Museums

3. 1 Social Media Management
Digital & New Media – Overview

6. 1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
Digital & New Media – Overview

7. 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

8. • 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
RIVERSIDE MUSEUM

9. •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.
DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - PHILOSOPHY

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

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

12. 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

13. 1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
Digital & New Media – Overview

14. Kelvin Hall Project

15. 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

17. • Online portal to the collections of Glasgow Museums, The Hunterian and the
National Library of Scotland Scottish Screen Archive
• The portal aims to become a virtual museum in its own right; access to the
collections of all of the museums in Glasgow, not just those housed in Kelvin Hall,
providing added value content to support and enhance access for learning,
teaching, research and community engagement
• The Kelvin Hall Portal project will develop a reliable, scalable and low
maintenance site that enables users to search across the collections of Glasgow
Museums, The Hunterian and National Library of Scotland Scottish Screen
Archive

18. 1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
Digital & New Media – Overview

20. 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

21. 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

22. 1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
5 Glasgow Life Photo Library
Digital & New Media – Overview

23. 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.

25. 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

26. • John Ferry, Digital & New Media Manager, Glasgow Museums
Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums