[Belated notes from a session at Internet Librarian.]
John Shoesmith, of the University of Toronto rare books library, talked about their efforts to put their exhibits online. Physical exhibits only work for those who can get to the library while they are going on, but online exhibits can reach people far beyond the library and long after the exhibits are over.
Used:
- Drupal: mirrored existing site (require hand-holding byt IT staff)
- Omeka: open-source content-management system. Used its exhibit builder plug-in for display.
- Islandora: tools.
- Fedora: repository.
For labor: museum studies students.
Juan Denzer, Binghamton University library
Their library director heard about how the National Library of China has a newspaper reader that works with gestures from the user. They replicated the system to create 3-D models of rare books, allowing the user to view them without actually handling them.
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