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| Questions from template | Notes and Resolutions |
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| 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? |
