Hi.
Thanks for coming.
George Oates
Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd.
glo@gfns.uk @goodformand
UCL Digital Humanities Seminar, London, 25 November 2015
Design and R&D in the Digital Humanities, UCL Digital Humanities Seminar
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
+
The Small Museum
+
Museum in a Box
gfns.uk
R&D
Digital Noodling
The chasm between metadata and curatorial rigour
Naïve collection interfaces
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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
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Wellcome Library
whatsinthelibrary.com
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Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Scope of the Catalogue
Show the THING (and not its record)
Context, Context, Context
Scaling Up
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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.
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Harriet Maxwell
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Object-oriented experience design
Museum in a Box
museuminabox.org
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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)
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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
Thank You.
George Oates
glo@gfns.uk
@goodformand
Grayson Perry

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