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Planning a Virtual Exhibition for the Web
How to scope an online show as its own piece of work: audience, content, structure, schedule, and what to decide before anyone builds a page.
Formats and Online
Online Exhibits
Taking exhibits and collections onto the web.
Archiving an Online Exhibit After the Show Ends
How to preserve a finished web exhibit so it stays readable for years: what to keep, which formats last, and how to document the choices you made.
Crowdsourcing and Public Contributions Online
How museums invite transcription, tagging and personal stories from the public online, and how moderation, clear tasks and feedback keep it workable.
Exhibit Websites That Work on Slow Connections
Practical ways to keep image-heavy exhibit web pages usable on limited bandwidth: lighter images, lazy loading, simple pages and honest testing.
Offline Modes for Exhibit Apps
How to design exhibit apps and web pages that keep working with poor or no signal, from basements to remote sites: what to store, sync and tell users.
Online Collection Portals: Search, Browse and Context
How to structure searchable online catalog pages so ordinary readers can find, browse and understand objects, with useful search, filters and context.
Open Access Images and Online Reuse
How institutions share images for reuse, what open licenses and public domain labels generally mean, and how to use such images responsibly on exhibit pages.
Virtual Tours and 360 Degree Panoramas
How panoramic walkthroughs of galleries and sites work, the navigation choices involved, and their limits for access, file size and storytelling.
Web Based 3D Object Viewers
How rotating 3D object views work in a browser, what they need from models and devices, and where they genuinely help visitors or simply distract.
Web Exhibit or Mobile App: Choosing a Delivery Path
The tradeoffs between delivering a museum project in a browser and as an installed app: reach, cost, features, upkeep and what visitors actually prefer.
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