Hi. Thanks for coming.
George Oates Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd. [email protected] @goodformand
UCL Digital Humanities Seminar, London, 25 November 2015
1973-2003 Adelaide
1973-2003 Adelaide Bad student, bike courier, fell into the web, by George! web design
2003-2005 Vancouver
Ludicorp, Flickr
2005-2014 San Francisco
Flickr, Flickr Commons, Internet Archive, Stamen Design
flickr.com/commons
openlibrary.org
waybackmachine.org
archive.org/911
Internet Archive Book Reader
maps.stamen.com
parks.stamen.com
2014 — London
gfns.uk
gfns.uk
R&D Tools, Products Clients
gfns.uk
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
Digital noodling
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The Small Museum
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Museum in a Box
gfns.uk
R&D
Digital Noodling The chasm between metadata and curatorial rigour Naïve collection interfaces
Florence vs
Florence Atlanta
Florence vs
Wander Search
Spelunker
netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com
netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com
netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com
netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com/genres/3092
netflixomatic.goodformandspectacle.com/words/dramas
Show Everything
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Catalogue as Landscape
Date Created Date Acquired
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Date Created Date Acquired
Null / Not Known
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Two Way Street
twoway.st
twoway.st
1980s
twoway.st/facets/found_in/Iraq,%20South
twoway.st/facets/found_in/Iraq,%20South
Wellcome Library
whatsinthelibrary.com
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Scope of the Catalogue Show the THING (and not its record) Context, Context, Context Scaling Up
Digital Noodling The chasm between metadata and curatorial rigour Naïve collection interfaces
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
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What does the web know about James Gillray?
Can objects be internetually curious?
whatsinthelibrary.com
API as by-product
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% of institutions have less than 10 staff.
Tom Flynn
Harriet Maxwell
Object-oriented experience design
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Museum 1
Museum 2
Museum 3
Box 1
Box 2
Museum 1
Museum 2
Museum 3
+ Raspberry Pi (or other small computer)
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
R&D
Working on a Visiting Researcher program.
How should it work?
gfns.uk