Glasgow Life Glasgow Museums Duncan Dornan Senior Museums

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

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Digital & New Media – Overview 1 Social Media Management

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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Kelvin Hall Project

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

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

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

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 Past. Map and Google. Maps • The ability to cross-search Glasgow Museums’ Collection Descriptions with Glasgow City Archives’ Archival Collection Descriptions

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

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.

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

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