Enriching Exhibition Stories: Adding Voices to Quire

传统的展览目录是信息量极大的文件，但对撰写目录的人和阅读目录的人来说，可能会令人望而生畏，甚至令人生畏。丰富的展览故事将帮助博物馆更容易地创建补充的数字形式的展览叙事，与通常参与展览的人相比，这些叙事可以表达更广泛、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与牛津阿什莫尔博物馆和耶鲁英国艺术中心之间成功的国际合作基础上。该项目将借鉴同一团队在研究丰富展览奖学金项目中的见解，该项目将物品在展览期间在机构之间移动时链接并设置背景，将结构化的博物馆藏品数据与报纸文章和社交媒体等“富文本”相结合。该项目使用由Getty开发的开源Quire软件，该软件可以创建丰富的文档，包括展览目录，但即使是较小的机构和个人也很容易创作、构建、部署和维护这些文档。丰富展览故事将增加Quire的功能，以便它能够与链接艺术--早期研究项目中使用的结构化数据--合作，并通过它实现数字故事的新形式。丰富展览故事将与博物馆合作，通过持续的对话来定义要求，并通过增强的Quire软件的两次试验，确保我们的工作嵌入专业的最佳实践和软件中。在第一次试验中，我们将与最近在阿什莫兰举办的《迷宫：诺索斯、神话与现实》展览的策展人合作，创建一个通过社交媒体评论连接展览项目的数字故事。在我们的第二次试验中，Rumble博物馆的切尼学校的学生将创建数字故事，反映他们对展览材料和背景的个人解释。我们从这两个试验中获得的经验将结合在牛津暑期学校数字人文博物馆专业人员的培训课程中，并在英国和美国的博物馆会议上传播。所有项目软件、程序和文档都将免费提供给博物馆，供博物馆在未来的任何时候采用和改编。

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.