https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/archive/designandranddindh Start: Nov 25, 2015 05:30 PM End: Nov 25, 2015 06:30 PM Location: Arts and Humanities Common Room, G24 Foster Court UCLDH Seminar Good, Form & Spectacle is a London design firm focused on cultural heritage projects. They work on R&D projects, software tools and products, and have a small batch of clients. Their R&D is both digital and physical, as they work on designing fun exploratory interfaces for gigantic cultural collections, and contrast that with making a physical place called The Small Museum. George Oates, Director at Good, Form & Spectacle, will speak about the work they are currently involved in.

1. Hi.
Thanks for coming.
George Oates
Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd.
glo@gfns.uk @goodformand
UCL Digital Humanities Seminar, London, 25 November 2015

3. 1973-2003
Adelaide

4. 1973-2003
Adelaide
Bad student, bike courier, fell into the web,
by George! web design

5. 2003-2005
Vancouver
Ludicorp, Flickr

6. 2005-2014
San Francisco
Flickr, Flickr Commons, Internet Archive, Stamen Design

7. flickr.com/commons

8. openlibrary.org

9. waybackmachine.org

10. archive.org/911

11. Internet Archive Book Reader

12. maps.stamen.com

13. parks.stamen.com

14. 2014 —
London

15. gfns.uk

16. gfns.uk

17. R&D
Tools,
Products
Clients
gfns.uk

18. R&D
The chasm between metadata
and curatorial rigour
Naïve collection interfaces
Object-oriented experience
design
Local archives of global content
Looking in lots of museums
gfns.uk

19. Digital noodling
+
The Small Museum
+
Museum in a Box
gfns.uk
R&D

20. Digital Noodling
The chasm between metadata and curatorial rigour
Naïve collection interfaces

22. Florence vs
Florence Atlanta

23. Florence vs
Wander Search

24. Spelunker

25. netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com

26. netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com

27. netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com

28. netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com/genres/3092

29. netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com/words/dramas

30. Show
Everything

31. va.goodformandspectacle.com

32. 32
va.goodformandspectacle.com

33. 33
va.goodformandspectacle.com

34. 34
va.goodformandspectacle.com

35. Catalogue as
Landscape

36. Date Created Date Acquired
va.goodformandspectacle.com

37. Date Created Date Acquired
Null / Not Known
va.goodformandspectacle.com

38. Two Way Street
twoway.st

39. twoway.st

41. 1980s

48. twoway.st/facets/found_in/Iraq,%20South

49. twoway.st/facets/found_in/Iraq,%20South

52. Wellcome Library
whatsinthelibrary.com

54. Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Scope of the Catalogue
Show the THING (and not its record)
Context, Context, Context
Scaling Up

69. Digital Noodling
The chasm between metadata and curatorial rigour
Naïve collection interfaces

70. Content Scaffolding
1. About the thing
2. Themes around the thing
3. Connect to the rest of the collection
4. Connect to the rest of the web

73. 73

74. 74

77. What does the web know
about James Gillray?
Can objects be
internetually curious?
whatsinthelibrary.com

78. API as by-product

79. New museum from the ground up
Museum’s place in its community
Digital spine; digital efficiencies
Collect multiple points of view
Social objects
The Small Museum
thesmallmuseum.org

80. ~80% of institutions have
less than 10 staff.

83. Tom Flynn
Harriet Maxwell

95. Object-oriented experience design

98. 98

99. 99

101. Object-oriented experience design
Museum in a Box
museuminabox.org

103. Museum 1
Museum 2
Museum 3

104. Box 1
Box 2
Museum 1
Museum 2
Museum 3

105. + Raspberry Pi
(or other small computer)

118. R&D
The chasm between metadata
and curatorial rigour
Naïve collection interfaces
Object-oriented experience
design
Local archives of global content
Looking in lots of museums
gfns.uk

119. R&D
Working on a Visiting Researcher
program.
How should it work?
gfns.uk

120. Thank You.
George Oates
glo@gfns.uk
@goodformand
Grayson Perry