Date
Attendees
Goals
- Go through Kelsi's template and resolve questions, to the extent possible
- Decide on a plan for addressing UCI curator interest in creating an exhibition
Template discussion notes
| Questions from template | Notes and Resolutions |
|---|---|
| Should there be front matter? | Yes |
| Number of items in an exhibition? | Let's go with 15-20 items, but then recommend a theme is used with more These are best practices / general guidelines - we need a cheat sheet - add this to deliverables? And where does this fit in the workflow? proposal, perhaps? |
| A point on UX: exhibitions need a starting point | Right now it's too democratic and pinterest-y What makes an exhibition an exhibition is a guide, more prescribed navigation But what's great about a digital space is you can have people click around, explore on their own; needs to be a balance What's the goal of the exhibit? Are they here to experience something? Let's table this and put it in a "UX bucket" where we might collect other ideas for CDL |
| Themes +++ (this turned into a bigger discussion!) | They're confusing Browsing by topic is necessary on Calisphere (subject heading possibly?) The current themes are so widely different - e.g. Critical Theorists, AIDS history project; those as themes next to "The West, 1820-1900" seems crazy to me A tension between wanting a construct to The search bar on Calisphere "home" isn't enough - we need to direct people to stuff "What's the point of an exhibit"?
In the guidelines we should add what an exhibit is and why they are important / helpful Sherri will send out a link to "generous interfaces" Part of proposal process: this could be "please list at least three areas that this would contribute to" (like thinking about tags) |
| Titles | We like the things to avoid We should add good ideas, saying "short, creative title" Put names, dates, places in the subtitle Example: "Open Spaces: Environmental Challenges and Activism in Southern California" Art museums do this well Is there a way to think about duplicative info in the proposal/curatorial process?
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| Exhibit description snippet | Kelsi's language sounds good! She'll add some examples of successful ones. "How is this going to make your day better by looking at this exhibit?" |
| Hero images | Add some language about size requirements - Sherri Add some language about making this look nice in a banner format - Kelsi |
| Exhibit overview | The idea here is that this is like the program of an exhibit, they get the gist of it There should be there's a required general overview and extra stuff is optional |
| About / credits | "About" sounds like what the exhibit is about Requirements around that should make sure it grounds things in a certain place and time |
| "Learn more" - add this as a section after "credits" | This is where you could put links to collections, etc. OR historical context |
| Notes | Limit this to notes on the objects, definitions, etc. |
| Item descriptions | Spreadsheet makes a lot of sense to do this. How much do we expect them to actually have at the proposal stage, vs. the exhibition creation stage? |
UCI Curator exhibition notes
- Seems there are three options here:
- Just go ahead and publish the exhibition
- Hold the creation of all exhibitions till we're done with this
- Something in the middle: test the process, maybe not guarantee a go-live date of May but offer to see if it could work
- Perhaps the curator would be willing to return to the exhibition to make changes after the go-live date? So, staged to meet the deadline but with expectation that curator would bring the exhibition up-to-guidelines after-the-fact?
- Curator probably doesn't have a whole lot of time to work through this process. Maybe check in on the deadline in the first place?
- This team is prepared to be the "standing committee" on this particular case.
- Certainly this would be a good test case for the proposal process, at least - and could help us develop some guidelines for exhibitions.
- Next steps:
- Sherri should check in with CDL to see whether there is a strong feeling about this, given that we do want to support UC Libraries projects.
- Christine and Sherri will collaborate to get back to Thuy and have a call for more info-gathering
Action items
- Kelsi Evans revise template taking in feedback, above
- Sherri Berger check in with CDL people about the group's recommended methodology for doing exhibitions now
- Christine Kim and Sherri Berger touch base on getting back to Thuy
- Sherri Berger consider making these meetings half hour? Or be seriously, for-real good about only having one topic per call
