Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums

 Social Media Management  Riverside  Kelvin Hall Project  Collections Navigator  Glasgow Life Photo Library Digital & New Media at Glasgow Museums

 Social Media Management Digital & New Media – Overview

 Social Media Management  Riverside Digital & New Media – Overview

DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA AT GLASGOW MUSEUMS Digital as primary form of interpretation All digital interpretation is for everyone - but every display has a target audience All address the physical needs preferred learning styles of different audiences Building on best practice and prototyping Pushing the boundaries of how digital interpretation is used in museums

Winner: European Museum of the Year 2013 Winner: Best Science, Technical, Industrial Museum – European Museum Academy, Micheletti Award 2012 Winner: Best Customer Experience – Scottish Digital Business Awards 2012 Winner: Best Engineering Design – Scottish Design Awards 2012 RIVERSIDE MUSEUM

An object-based, visitor-centred, interdisciplinary, storytelling museum service. Using digital to engage people’s imaginations & intellects. Telling the stories that our objects carry. To think about the past, about issues, to empathize with people different to themselves. DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - PHILOSOPHY

Primary interpretive types: Touch interfaces eStorybooks Games Video Large scale ‘shows’ Mobile DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION

Primary interpretive types: Touch interfaces eStorybooks Games Video Large scale ‘shows’ Mobile DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION

Story Player – CMS Template based CMS Fully managed and updated in-house Full suite of staff trained in use Currently being updated Features in Kelvin Hall proposal

 Social Media Management  Riverside  Kelvin Hall Project Digital & New Media – Overview

Kelvin Hall Project

This project involves the innovative partnership use of a landmark building to create a cultural hub for collections storage, teaching and learning, research and public orientation and engagement, combined with a sports and leisure facility It aims to bring together the world class collections of the city and university of Glasgow and the national Scottish Screen Archive to create a single cultural and intellectual resource for the public, locally and globally

 Social Media Management  Riverside  Kelvin Hall Project  Collections Navigator Digital & New Media – Overview

Collections Navigator Phase 2 User friendly searching Currently the Navigator only searches within selected fields on Mimsy XG and does not search for object-based information such as maker; culture; materials; credit line. This will be updated within development for KH December 2013 to March 2014

Collections Navigator Development Phase 3 Mapping and Aggregating The ability to search Collection Descriptions with more familiar geographical references such as postcodes The addition of a map-based interface to the Collections Navigator functionality The ability to publish the Collections Navigator records through other aggregating services, such as PastMap and GoogleMaps The ability to cross-search Glasgow Museums’ Collection Descriptions with Glasgow City Archives’ Archival Collection Descriptions

 Social Media Management  Riverside  Kelvin Hall Project  Collections Navigator  Glasgow Life Photo Library Digital & New Media – Overview

GLASGOW LIFE - DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – PHOTO LIBRARY. Launching, January 2014 The Glasgow Life Photo Library holds images from the unique collections of Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Libraries. With paintings from all the major European schools - including Old Masters, French Impressionists, Glasgow Boys (and Girls) and the pre-Raphaelites - to social history images and historic photographs of shipbuilding on the Clyde, we offer opportunities to add a fresh look to your product range, publication, project or campaign.

Going Forward Company investment in our Digital development Continue to invest in innovations that improve products and services Expansion of digital interpretive types across temp exhibitions and online Capital Projects

Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow Museums Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums