Enriching Exhibition Stories: Adding Voices to Quire

传统的展览目录是非常翔实的文件，但可能是令人生畏的，甚至是恐吓，无论是那些谁写他们和那些谁读他们。“丰富展览故事”将帮助博物馆更轻松地创建补充性的数字形式的展览叙事，与那些通常参与展览的人相比，这些展览叙事可以表达更广泛和更多样化的观点。这个新项目建立在英国牛津大学和爱丁堡大学以及美国耶鲁大学的领先研究人员之间成功的国际合作基础上，它将借鉴同一团队在丰富展览奖学金项目研究期间的见解，该项目通过展览在机构之间移动时将物体联系起来并将其置于背景中，将结构化博物馆藏品数据与报纸文章和社交媒体等“富文本”相结合。该项目使用Getty开发的开源Quire软件，该软件创建丰富的文档，包括展览目录，而且易于创作、构建、部署和维护，即使是较小的机构和个人也是如此。Enriching Exhibition Stories为Quire增加了功能，使其能够与链接艺术（早期研究项目中使用的结构化数据）合作，并通过它实现新形式的数字故事。Enriching Exhibition Stories将与博物馆合作，以确保我们的工作嵌入专业的最佳实践以及软件中，通过持续的对话来定义需求，并通过两次试验的增强Quire软件。在第一次试验中，我们将与策展人最近的'Labeldeth：克诺索斯，神话与现实'展览在阿什莫林，创造一个数字故事连接项目从展览通过社交媒体评论。在我们的第二次审判学生在隆隆博物馆，切尼学校，将创造数字故事，反映他们对展览材料和背景的个人解读。我们从这两次试验中获得的经验将结合在牛津大学数字人文暑期学校为博物馆专业人员举办的“培训培训师”课程中，并传播到英国和美国的博物馆会议上。所有项目软件，程序，和文件，将免费提供给博物馆，以在未来的任何时候采用和调整。

Traditional exhibition catalogues are extremely informative documents, but may be daunting, perhaps even intimidating, both to those who write them and those who read them. Enriching Exhibition Stories will help museums more easily create supplemental digital forms of exhibition narrative which speak to, and can be voiced by, a wider and more diverse range of perspectives than those who usually engage with exhibitions.This new project builds upon a successful international collaboration between leading researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh in the UK and Yale University in the US, alongside the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Yale Center for British Art. It will draw upon insights from the same team during their research for the Enriching Exhibition Scholarship project, which linked and contextualised objects as they move between institutions through exhibitions, combining structured museum collections data with 'rich text' such as newspaper articles and social media.The project uses the open source Quire software, developed by Getty, which creates rich documents, including exhibition catalogues, but which are easy to author, build, deploy and maintain, even by smaller institutions and individuals. Enriching Exhibition Stories adds capabilities to Quire so that it will work with Linked Art -- the structured data used in the earlier research project -- and through it enable new forms of Digital Stories.Enriching Exhibition Stories will work in partnership with museums to ensure our work is embedded in professional best practice as well as software, both through an ongoing dialogue to define requirements, and through two trials of the enhanced-Quire software.In the first trial we will work with the curator of the recent 'Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality' exhibition at the Ashmolean, to create a Digital Story connecting items from the exhibition through social media commentary.In our second trial students at the Rumble Museum, Cheney School, will create Digital Stories which reflect their own personal interpretations of exhibition material and context.Our experience from both these trials will be coalesced in a 'train the trainers' session for museum professionals at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, and in dissemination to museum conferences in the UK and US.All project software, procedures, and documentation, will be made freely available for museums to adopt and adapt at any point in the future.